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| workshops Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly offer a variety of educational programmes, including lectures, workshops and surgeries, suitable for students and practitioners of visual and performing arts disciplines. This page details some of the workshops currently evailable. Any enquiries should be addressed to: Lisa
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i thought you'd never come... I thought you’d never come… implies both the arrival, and its aching anticipation. It is both the moment of togetherness, and the long winter night that brought you here. It is an act of will, of endurance, of duration, and consummation. The workshop offers a radical reframing of notions of collaboration. Stepping away from a utopian vision of shared objectives and hegemonic aspiration, I thought you’d never come… asks to reconsider collaboration as a viral form, as a process of contamination and bodily infection. As a slow release. Since 2005, Hancock and Kelly have interrogated their own collaboration through a series of solo performances, with each performance in the series made alternately by Hancock and Kelly in response to the work of the other. Many of these performances have taken the form of long durational human installations and activities, which interrupt cultural trajectories. Taking this model of cannibalisation as the basis for production, the workshop will consider the body as a site for collaboration to take hold and proliferate. Collaboration will be considered in relation to questions of endurance, duration and concentration. |
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the sacred body vs. the profane body The status of the body, and its representations, is a problem which consistently concerns the work of hancock & kelly live. The territory between the revered, valued ‘sacred’ body, and that of the disenfranchised ‘profane’ body, is a political minefield built on shifting ground. The company’s working practices seek to further provoke and unsettle this ground through a mining of the imaginary and articulated body. This workshop will introduce some key ideas and practitioners working in the area, and open up some of the company’s own processes of making work. This is a predominantly practical workshop and involves material that is designed to interrogate questions of the material and cultural body. Participants should be aware of the potentially explicit content of the session. |
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the collaborative body This one day workshop is designed to introduce participants to processes of working which are inherently shared, and structured through practises of transference and responsive thought. Each participant will be encouraged to develop work as part of a collaborative, in response to a set of uncovered notions surrounding their own making processes, and those of their other(s). |
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| the binary body A workshop session inviting students to recognise and challenge the implicit (and explicit) binaries of the body. Students will be asked to consider fundamental questions surrounding the construction and reading of bodies, their place in this world, and the possibilities for their future.
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| performing time A two day workshop exploring elements of time-based media. Including presentations, practical tasks, technical skills workshops and group discussion. The sessions cover both practical and theoretical concerns on a range of topics, including: - Performance and Performativity - The Live and the Mediated - Individual and Collaborative Working Processes - Digital Video Editing |
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hancock & traci kelly 2005 - 2006 | all rights reserved | photography
by manuel vason
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