As part of the Social Acoustics project, partner Lilia Mestre presents a workshop as part of her ongoing ScoreScapes – thinking scores as a pedagogical tool. Developed in the context of a.pass, an educational platform for artistic research based in Brussels, the workshop focuses on relational practices, questions of collective work, and narrative. By using the notion of the score, the workshop proposes a system of interactions where varied aesthetic experiences can coexist, complement, challenge and inspire each other. This will be done by formulating a series of questions and answers emerging from the artistic practice of the participants, and collecting our shared experiences into a common score. In this way, the score functions as an instrument for building temporary community and nurturing speculative narratives.
The workshop will investigate different media in order to develop dialogue, including sound, experimental notation, and gesture, as well as other expressions that may carry our varied modes of being, backgrounds, moods, sensibilities, political concerns and theories. We will feedback from the affective relationships between the participants of the score, the environment and whatever is present in order to understand the self, the collective, the act of gathering and practicing together.
The workshop will meet over 3 days in a semi-public place in the Art Academy building in Bergen, or across the local environment. The work will be inspired by readings (G. Agamben, I. Rogoff, J.L. Nancy), writing practice, and the exploration of physical forms of presence. We will go in between the inside and the outside, the individual and the group, in between the here and there, between being part of and being other. Fragile Community Score wishes to underline the importance of the experiential aspect of learning as a thinking-partner and as a community maker by co-composing our environment.
The workshop was held in October 2019, the first in a series Lilia will organize.
With: Lilia Mestre