Sunday 11 November 2012

NOTA : SHOWTiME Collection




NOTA (NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), NOT/A), towards a sometimes set of performance writing tools.  NOTA is a research framework for Open Dialogues that presses on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to live performance.  

The NOTA : SHOWTiME Collection is a
selection of Open Dialogues notes from the launch of NOTA at SHOWTiME, Rich Mix London July 2012. The collection features notes made by Rachel Lois and Mary live and in public from a writing station on the SHOWTiME stage.


NOTA 150612 20.00 1
 START

OK, how do you want to start? Have I got a coffee moustache? Let’s not start there...

The stamp

Maybe start with the actual stamp... There is a lot in the gesture, or the action of the stamp. It is really old fashioned...

 It’s a standard stationery item in many ways, off the shelf. Only one part of it is customised - the word ‘NOTA.’ I tried to get the word ‘received’ removed from it too but then decided against it.


NOTA 160612 20.00 3

... This is graft. We are at a workstation, stamping documents. And it is work.


NOTA 160612 22.00 1


For me, it’s a process of thinking through writing, through mark making. The notes represent my thought processes.

Provisional, lightweight and ‘un-publishable’, the notes capture a particular insight. The particular invitation they make is important. As a form of conversation there is space for other people to speak.

The first of several NOTA publications is due out soon. It will feature some of the SHOWTiME notes specially selected and re-worked by Alex Eisenberg and John Pinder of Present Attempt and a choreographed interview transcript between Mary and Rachel Lois. 

Other manifestations of NOTA are herehere and here. 

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NOTA (NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), NOT/A), towards a sometimes set of performance writing tools.  NOTA is a research framework for Open Dialogues that presses on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to live performance.  

SHOWTiME is curated by Present Attempt. The July 2012 event  included Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, Present Attempt, Joseph Mercier, Mischa Twitchin and Penny Francis, ChloĆ© Dechery, Rachel Mars and Rosie Kelly, Bill Aitchison Company, Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon, Augusto Corrieri, Seke Chimutengwende & Friends, Yoko Ishiguro.

Open Dialogues is a UK collaboration, founded by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson, that produces writing on and as performance. 







Friday 9 November 2012

Month of Performance Art- Berlin

By Rachel Lois


I am part of the international Curatorial Collaboration Initiative (CCI) for the Month of Performance Art- Berlin (MPA-B) 




Programme B with Ying-Mei Duan and Elana Katz - May 22nd - Photo © Marco Berardi 2012


The CCI consist of an international panel of curators, theorists and artists who contribute to the production, programming, promotion and network development of MPA-B, with discussions happening in Berlin,  online via Wiki and Skype. The 3rd MPA-B is in May 2013 and the CCI November 2012 meeting will focus on the dissemination of authorship in performance. Join in, and contribute to the conversations via live written chat via the livestream between 11-17.00 CET 10 November 2012. 

Texts from the collaboration will be published on the MPA-B Text roll here, a selection of these will also feature here on the Open Dialogues blog 











Sunday 4 November 2012

Strategies for Approaching Repeating Problems

By Rachel Lois


Emma Cocker & Rachel Lois Clapham, Fatima Hellberg, Gil Leung, Andrew McGettigan, Francesco Pedraglio, David Raymond Conroy, Alex Vasudevan



Re — Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, presented at Quad, 2012
Strategies for approaching repeating problems presents a series of performances, presentations and talks around the ideas explored in the exhibition, Accidentally on Purpose, at Quad. Taking the notion of a repeating problem as a starting point, invited artists, writers and curators discuss elements of their practice within this framework. Notions of recurring issues are explored from artistic and wider social perspectives; from difficulties inherent in language and communication; to the way artists and writers position themselves in relation to political events and wider social issues.


Re — Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, presented at Quad, 2012

For Strategies for approaching repeating problems, Emma Cocker and I performed a new version of Re — an ongoing iterative project that essays the relation between meaning and intention, hesitation and purpose, and the visible and invisible states of not knowing within the event of practice. Re —  presses on two writers coming together to explore process, product and performance (of text).


More details on the event here or here