01/11/2024 — 28/02/2025
Andrea Canepa
16/12/2024 — 14/01/2025
Lines of Presence
Andrea Canepa
16/12/2024 — 14/01/2025
Workshop
Lines of Presence: Exploring the Intersection of Scores, Scripts, Body, and Place
In the theoretical and practical sessions of the workshop, the participants will explore how bodies inhabit and transform space by focusing on the underlying scores that guide us. Through exercises translating physical experience into symbols, the workshop will trace the evolution from tactile, embodied communication to abstract writing, questioning what is lost along the way. Participants will explore non-Western ways of representing information, which differ from alphabetic scripts based on speech, and other notations that use different forms of expression to communicate ideas beyond spoken language.
The workshop will approach the notion of a score in an extended way, examining its manifestations in everyday life, art, architecture, education, and ritual. Exercises will include performing the scores of others and creating their own, also drawing inspiration from Venice’s architecture while considering what makes a score “open” and exploring the negotiation between constraints and freedom. The workshop’s focus will also be on three-dimensional scores, and particularly on how the body interacts with sculpture, design, and architecture. Using "play" as a catalyst, the group will explore how it fosters physical exploration and challenges preconceived norms, collaborating on a score inspired by the artist’s installation at Scuola Piccola Zattere.
In the second part, the workshop will shift to the movement of bodies through space and place, not only physically but also emotionally, imaginatively, culturally, aesthetically, and politically. Participants will reflect on how these movements create spaces and how reenacting them can serve as catalysts for memory activation.
The workshop will also explore mnemonic strategies rooted in the experience of space, beyond the purely visual. In the practical session of the workshop, textures, materials, and the memory of place will converge as participants anchor their sensations to physical surroundings, creating tactile maps that reflect both presence and passage.
In the second session, the focus will shift to the movement of bodies through space, not only physical but also emotional, imaginative, cultural, aesthetic, and political. Participants will reflect on how these movements create spaces and how their recollection can be a catalyst for the activation of memory.
The workshop will also explore mnemonic strategies based on the experience of space, beyond the purely visual. In the practical session of the workshop, participants will draw on textures, materials, and the memory of places to learn to anchor their sensations to the physical environment, creating tactile maps that reflect both presence and passage.
In this second part of the workshop, Andrea Canepa has invited two guests: Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo and Nina Glockner. Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo is an independent art curator based in Madrid, whose research interests lie on power structures, modes of perception and marginalized histories, with a focus on postcolonial theory and alternative ontologies. Nina Glockner is an Amsterdam-based artist whose performative practice is about exploring the thin line between executing control and being under a state of control.
Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo will propose the session "Embody Being", offering a first approach to the concepts of active perception through the analysis of body language. Nina Glockner will explore the potential of an Open Score to enable interpersonal encounters, while undermining existing hierarchies, and temporarily ignoring differences.
PROGRAM
The workshop consists of two sessions (December 2024 and January 2025). Participation in both is requested.
First session: December 16-17, 2024, 10 am-6 pm
Second session: January 13-14, 2025, 10 am-6 pm
The workshop will be conducted in English and is free of charge. Registration for the workshop closed on December 13rd.