winter edition 2011 ::: other music e.V.

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TRUNK : Interdisciplinary Improvisation Workshop
with the TRUNK ensemble: Richard Doust (GB, language, writing), Isabelle Marx (France, voice, movement), Milton Paulo (Brazil, movement), Patries Wichers (Belgium, action art, performance), Shanglie Zhou (China, video art, installation), Alan Bern (USA, music, improvisation theory)
February 7-9, 2011
at: mon ami

TRUNK is an international collaboration among six interdisciplinary artists dedicated to finding ways for artists and non-artists alike to create and communicate artistically, transcending differences of age, nationality, training and even language. The key is to start with basic human experience and awareness and build from there. In this workshop, TRUNK introduces exercises using sound, movement, imagery and language to heighten awareness of space, time and presence that feeds creative action in interdisciplinary improvisation.

TRUNK as a metaphor
The metaphor envisions a tree whose branches represent the different artistic disciplines, separated by particular materials and techniques. Lower down, in the trunk, the different disciplines share a common set of impulses to action using movement, sound and image, narrative, and much more. But perception of these impulses depends on something more basic still; heightened awareness of the dimensions of experience such as time, space, body, self and other - the roots of experience. The metaphor also provides a map for developing exercises at different levels: root work (awareness), trunk work (creative impulses and intentions), branch work (disciplines defined by materials and techniques), and how the artistic process flows through these levels.

:: impressum