OKNO-CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 2021. FLOWS
Part 1
Way – workshop by Sherwood Chen
Sherwood Chen - demonstration of working methods
Educational meetings – The Association for the Protection of Heritage Młyn-Papiernia in Barlinek
WAY
A forest, while being defined as its own site, is a community of trees, flora and fauna in tension and cooperation. To occupy a forest with our human bodies and senses, loaded with romance and colonial dynamics, yields an infinite number of possible ways to meet it. Correctly or incorrectly intuiting a singular site through sensorial and imagined perception instantly renders it and its perceiver, contrarily, prismatic.
What can it mean then for this seven-day summer gathering of Polish artists in fruitful exchange with artists across borders to meet creatively off-the-grid?
This laboratory emphasizes site-specific performance research, which allows each participant to explore Chen's poetic and at times obliquely politicized proposals in their own personal ways. The intensive laboratory will include: rigorous outdoors training directly on dew-drenched earth; sensory walks and works in the sylvan [Polish regional / historical name] countryside; and durational work to tenderize and re-route time and its relation to space.
In addition to considering the land and its seen and unseen histories and folklores, participants will acknowledge and respond to facets of the historical 18th-century paper and grain mill where they live and research individually and collectively, as much in the shadows as in the flame, phonelight, sun and waxing moonlight.
SHERWOOD CHEN is a performer who has worked with artists including Grisha Coleman, Yuko Kaseki, Amara Tabor-Smith, Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l’agence touriste, inkBoat / Ko Murobushi, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. Sherwood leads workshops in studio and in natural and urban landscapes internationally, and has taught in spaces including Ménagerie de Verre, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Independent Dance / Siobahn Davies Studios, K3 Tanzplan, SESC Mato Grosso, Chez Bushwick, ODC Dance Commons, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Dock 11, UC Berkeley, Arlequi and Earthdance. He has been an artist in residence in places including the Headlands Center for the Arts, ODC, Fazenda São João, École des Sables, Cap Quinze in Marseille, Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA), Dans Les Parages / Cie Christophe Haleb and Point Éphémère. For over twenty years, he has contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and his colleagues.
ZDJĘCIA
OKNO-CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 2021. FLOWS
Part 1
Way – workshop by Sherwood Chen
Sherwood Chen - demonstration of working methods
Educational meetings – The Association for the Protection of Heritage Młyn-Papiernia in Barlinek
WAY
A forest, while being defined as its own site, is a community of trees, flora and fauna in tension and cooperation. To occupy a forest with our human bodies and senses, loaded with romance and colonial dynamics, yields an infinite number of possible ways to meet it. Correctly or incorrectly intuiting a singular site through sensorial and imagined perception instantly renders it and its perceiver, contrarily, prismatic.
What can it mean then for this seven-day summer gathering of Polish artists in fruitful exchange with artists across borders to meet creatively off-the-grid?
This laboratory emphasizes site-specific performance research, which allows each participant to explore Chen's poetic and at times obliquely politicized proposals in their own personal ways. The intensive laboratory will include: rigorous outdoors training directly on dew-drenched earth; sensory walks and works in the sylvan [Polish regional / historical name] countryside; and durational work to tenderize and re-route time and its relation to space.
In addition to considering the land and its seen and unseen histories and folklores, participants will acknowledge and respond to facets of the historical 18th-century paper and grain mill where they live and research individually and collectively, as much in the shadows as in the flame, phonelight, sun and waxing moonlight.
SHERWOOD CHEN is a performer who has worked with artists including Grisha Coleman, Yuko Kaseki, Amara Tabor-Smith, Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l’agence touriste, inkBoat / Ko Murobushi, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. Sherwood leads workshops in studio and in natural and urban landscapes internationally, and has taught in spaces including Ménagerie de Verre, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Independent Dance / Siobahn Davies Studios, K3 Tanzplan, SESC Mato Grosso, Chez Bushwick, ODC Dance Commons, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Dock 11, UC Berkeley, Arlequi and Earthdance. He has been an artist in residence in places including the Headlands Center for the Arts, ODC, Fazenda São João, École des Sables, Cap Quinze in Marseille, Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA), Dans Les Parages / Cie Christophe Haleb and Point Éphémère. For over twenty years, he has contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and his colleagues.
ZDJĘCIA
