time: 05.08.23, 5 -8 pm + 04.08.23, 5 – 7:30 pm
GRUND (space): barn, cellar, stable, bathroom, kitchen, stube, attic, meadow
GRUND (reason): awareness to the senses, phenomenology, storytelling, imagination, space research
title: „Cross and Delight – A Story Telling from the Senses“
texts:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience, HarperCollins, 1990; Mikko Salmela, “Joint Improvisation as Interaction Ritual”, in: Susanne Ravn u.a. (Hg.) Philosophy of Improvisation : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2021; Suzuki Tadashi. Culture Is the Body, translated by Kameron H. Steele, Theatre Communications Group, 2015; Wolff-Michael Roth, First-Person Methods : Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience, Sense Publishers, 2012.
workshop concept: Carlo Sella
group: Vanja, Jovana, Carina, Marianna, Eugenio, Ingrid, Giulia F., Giulia R., Fabian, Brigitte
Workshop
„Cross and Delight – A Story Telling from the Senses“
Our only way to access reality is through our senses, and we continuously reveal and obscure information from the world in order to survive. At the heart of this facilitated space is a collective exploration of what insights we can gather from our senses and which stories emerge from them. The object of this research is the space of GRUND at the specific moment of the residency, considered both in its physical and social dimensions. The objective of the activity is to provide a ground for inspiration, trust and awareness to flourish during the residency.
I am contributing to the group dynamic and, at the same time, I am gripped by it. The dynamic acts on me, it makes me move – not in an externally determined way, but in my own way – , and thereby it gets enacted by me, I carry it further.
– Mühlhoff (2015)
notes
- For every smell, a different story.
- How do I activate myself, my imagination?
- Stories evoking sensations, sensations evoking stories?
- Us, in GRUND, building up collective images, images building up narratives, narratives shaping worlds.
- Darkness becomes a possibility for more.
material
Carlo Sella
(he/they) is a theatre actor, director, and educator. He is currently working at the intersection of art, activism, and political theatre. With the ShiftSlow association, he organizes artistic residencies and courses focused on the theme of degrowth and community e.g. Alt Shift Festival. His most recent individual creation is an interactive monologue in a cabaret-style format, exploring the social and environmental struggles stemming from the global waste trade.
Carlo has participated in the first edition of GRUNDresidency. This year he held a workshop for the residency community.
literature
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience, HarperCollins, 1990.
Mikko Salmela, “Joint Improvisation as Interaction Ritual”, in: Susanne Ravn u.a. (Hg.) Philosophy of Improvisation : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2021.
Suzuki Tadashi. Culture Is the Body, translated by Kameron H. Steele, Theatre Communications Group, 2015.
Wolff-Michael Roth, First-Person Methods : Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience, Sense Publishers, 2012.
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