Can I balance on a metaphor?
(The [simple] freedom to move things around); Notes on Collaborating Across Borders
In this lecture demonstration, creative collaborators pavleheidler and Alys Longley will share artistic-research practices for online interdisciplinary collaboration and discuss how these relate to the work of artist-teachers in precarious times. Alys and pavle will discuss some of the political implications of such artistic practices in how they could create space for difference, neurodiversity and non-binary practices and methods. They enjoy working with terms/provocations that form their meaning out of resistance, carrying the tension of the not-this, into the evocation of possibility. This practice involves the blurring of poetics, conversation, and drawing, to work into feeling, ambiguity, viscerality, relationality, spatiality, and texture. This experimental lecture-demonstration embraces the following principles:
- Non-anticipatory aesthetics
- Anti-proprietorial language
- Non-binary poetics
- To speak the experience of moving is no less moving than moving
- Moving is no less dancing than dancing
- Un-comfort / dis-knowing
- Tangential-somatic drawing practices
- To undo the sleeves of the discipline with the quick unpick of touch (tone as touch, response as touch, timing as touch, empathy as touch, voice as touch)
- Can I balance on a metaphor?
- The (simple) freedom to move things around
- The effort is the bracket/ to continue is the bracket/ to tell the story is the bracket / the body is the bracket/ the distance is the bracket
- Different kinds of scaling/ Different kinds of reorientation
- Pages of absence moving you/ and then you’ll be the lymphatic system
- My conclusion goes toward the clavicles
- The point where moving becomes drawing becomes moving becomes