Rapt, 2023, workshop
Part of a group exhibition entitled “Un-Tuning Together” curated by Maud Jacquin and Émilie Renard, Rapt was an intensive, eight-day, experimental movement and voice workshop that explored the complementary roles of personal autonomy and interrelationality. Inspired by the American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) we practiced developing our listening skills through scores that suggest attentional strategies and ways of listening to ourselves, others and the environment. Together, we asked: what might be possible if we accept to work in constant relation to one another? If existence necessarily means being in relationship, and if authority is decentralized, how might we come up with working methods that can shape equitable presents and futures? How might we build the necessary structures to manage all of the above with optimism and imagination? And how do we make room for discord?
With: Alexandre Bachelard, François Brunie, Catherine Lapeyre, Jules Ramage, Laure Samama, Lev Shusharichen, Sophie Torrell
Production: Betonsalon Centre d’Art et de Recherche, Paris