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“Reality Gaps” -a series of laboratories in 2008/2009 in relation to
Copenhagen International Theatre`s Metropolis Biennale (www.cph-metropolis.dk) Welcome!

"Reality Gaps " is a series of laboratories that build on the practice explored in work based on the concept “The Invisible Reality Shows*.
The laboratories will be concerned with audience sensitive approaches, framing and contextualizing life in public space, the relation of virtual presence and physical presence and to develop social sensitive spaces and neighbourhood involvement as part of the artistic practice.

Lab in 2008 : July 3rd to 18th, September 1st –sept 7th
on Nørrebro and Ørsted, Copenhagen

Open lab from July 3 to 5- contact us if you want to participate!

artists involved: Boaz Barkan (movement/dance), Daniel Belasco Rogers (visual art, locative media) Jakob Brandt Pedersen (sound), Jacob Langaa Sennek (visual elements), Fernando Barrajon ( multi media, interactive design), Zeenath Hasan (multi media), Vera Maeder (performance artist/theater)

some questions on physical and virtual/data presence


how to surface the virtual information floating in a city?

how does this kind of information effect our experience? our experience of place?

how does it influence and shape our behaviour and decision making?

what is the presence of this information?

what are the traces of virtual information?

how is virtual information contributing to our experience of " reality"?

how does it effect our physical experience?

when does information inform information and what happens to our physical presence in that process?



some questions on social sensitive spaces

How to frame spaces/ situations that create direct sensitive meeting?

What things can people gather around and do together?

What actions initiate a space of “we”?

When do we get challenged in notions of “me” and “other”? What allows opening a space in between?

How to make people meet as quickly and unconditioned as small children?

What would people want to voice or do, but have no frame for that?

How does “virtuality” allow us to voice things- , be the trigger for building such spaces?

How to challenge physicality in such virtually initiated spaces?

What do we do, really!


About SPACE

Activating the city space trough the experience of each individual audience, without adding physical objects or changing the actual physical space.

To be aware of, and highlight our endless potentials that each one is carrying each moment

and realize that we not depend on someone activating us but ourselves.

To realize that we are able to claim and use every single square inch of the public space by turning awareness to our presence in this moment.

To re-unite with our surroundings and not feel detached from them. And to open up for spaces , where ways of interacting and relating to the in-between continously is reinventing itself .






Wednesday 2 July 2008

...about to start

about to start a two week excursion on Nørrebro and Ørested....lots of questions and thanks god not answers, yet. mette, the leader of the library at nørrebro, lends us her office as meeting space- thank you mette for so much openess, trust, and uncomplicated agreements!

i took a bike ride this afternoon in the area, people, people, people, out on playgrounds, benches, bike tracks , and many hidden behind open windows with curtains flattering out in summer heat. a block for pensionists, a center for " advice for young people", another block where mostly immigrant families live. people in blocks of houses.
one of the librarians telling me about her activity where she goes out and visits people that just got a baby and offers story telling and books right from the birth up to the children are about 9 years old. she also told me that many people do very rarely leave this area, and going downtown is a seldom experience for many.

i turn down a small path. end up on a bridge , S-trains passing and a view into an wide open landscape, green long grass, violet flowers swaying in warm summer the air.

is there anybody home ?

taking another turn, somebody waiting nervously for an elevator, somebody piing on a house wall, a couple of teenagers spraying graffity, a couple of elders drinking beer and discussing loudly, others watching them, others pass buy, their chaw-bones tense and shivering slightly.
the people in the midst of a square surrounded by heavy trafficked streets, buses, cars, bikes, and a train line just beside, squeezed on a little square with flower pots and sipping cafe latte or coke or , there bodies stretched out on small chairs, apparently relaxed.

biking quicker, things coming towards me, pass by , fly by, path gradually through my body as one big mass. form of material, starting points and ends are dissolving into one fluid mass .
and i think of places and things, where things shift form more quickly than on this earth. and and what and where they are on this earth.
hello!

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