[CI-Announce] WORKSHOP: hancock & kelly live: „My body tries to cry...”, March 14-18, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

My body tries to cry...
– an evolving workshop-laboratory project from hancock & kelly live

Monday, March 14th – Friday, March 18th, 2011
Venue: Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany (adress below)

Updates: http://www.schwelle7.de/Hancock%26Kelly.html

REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 150 EUR


My body tries to cry... is an evolving workshop-laboratory project  
from hancock & kelly live.

The workshop explores a series of durational images focusing on  
physical, emotional, and energetic exchanges between bodies.  Each  
encounter is present as a testimony to a shared moment, a living  
inheritance, and a temporary memorial to the cellular body, and its  
(in)glorious contamination at the brink of collapse.

My body tries to cry...  continues hancock & kelly’s workshop  
trajectory through both self and other, revisiting and expanding ideas  
of material as inheritance, exchange, and testimony.

The five-day workshop culminates in a live durational performance  
configured around the workshop participants.  The performance consists  
of an evolving series of bodily exchanges between performers, each of  
which, at breaking point, become memorialized in gold.

Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly's workshop-laboratories offer a space  
for practice- based/body-based thinking, built around a set of  
questions pertinent to the duo's current investigations.  This  
'thinking' is made public by means of a pre-determined choreographic  
structure that is further developed throughout the workshop and  
presented at the end.

In addition to the specific questions of the workshop, sessions  
include a series of physically and emotionally demanding exercises  
(drawn from the artists' own practices, other seminal performance  
practitioners, and wider areas of body-based research) that situate  
the body and these questions in the context of Hancock and Kelly's  
wider socio-artistic concerns.

Participants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to consider  
themselves as both 'makers' and 'performers', working within a  
framework designed to support and provide the space to question, risk,  
and expose.

Participants should be aware that the some of the workshop processes  
and the performance require nudity.


Timetable

The workshop will run from Monday, March 7th to Friday March 11th,  
2011, with a public presentation on the final day.

Mon March 14       13:00 - 18:00
Tue March 15                   13:00 - 18:00
Wed March 16       13:00 - 18:00
Thur March 117     13:00 - 18:00
Fri March 18              16:00 - 23:00            (including public  
presentation, time to be confirmed)

Please note that the structure of the workshop and final presentation  
are shaped around the participants, and it is important that  
participants are able to commit to attend all sessions.

Biographies

hancock & kelly live is the collaborative project of artists Richard  
Hancock (b. 1977, UK) and Traci Kelly (b. 1961, UK).

Since 2001, they have collaborated on a body of work, questioning and  
provoking the gaps between subjects, between lives, between one  
another, between 'you' and 'I'.

Through an Internationally acclaimed body of work spanning  
performance, dance, video, photography, installation, and text, they  
have continually asked questions of where the limits of the body may  
be drawn, and separated from the knowledge and questions with which  
they are enmeshed. Further, their provocations ask where and how we  
can begin to define what is 'you' and where am 'I'.

The resulting works have been a series of intimate and queer events,  
both moving and spectacular.  hancock & kelly live has performed and  
exhibited at venues and events including the National Review of Live  
Art, UK (2005, 2007, 2009), Performance Space, Australia (2007),  
Interregnum, Denmark (2008), the Museu de Évora, Portugal (2009), and  
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Germany (2010).

Richard Hancock is an artist/choreographer currently based in Berlin.  
His research interests include questions of racial 'whiteness',  
masculinity, and non-reproductive sexualities.

Richard Hancock holds a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from  
the Nottingham Trent University, and a Masters degree with distinction  
in Critical Theory: The Body & Representation from the University of  
Reading.

He is currently Associate at New Work Network, London, where he is  
developing models for artist-led learning programmes. His ongoing  
collaboration, RESIDENT ALIENS (with the artist Liz Rosenfeld), is an  
exploration of queer family, lineage, and portraiture.

Traci Kelly’s practice slips and knots between performance, visual and  
textual languages.  Her poetic and visual imagery opens up a space for  
doubt and questions the status of the body.  Frequently her work  
implicates the audience in gestures of intimacy and solicited  
expressions of sincerity.

Together with Richard Hancock, Kelly approaches collaboration as a  
plastic material that may take multiple forms.  Currently she is  
exploring collaboration as a solo and viral process, resulting in  
encounters that are queer and inviting.


Links:

hancock & kelly live website: http://www.hancockandkellylive.com
hancock & kelly live on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/hancock-kelly-live/215498439659
Footage from the 2009 workshop presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8Cylg3lus



SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.  
The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

----------- LOCATION --------
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe Uferstudios)
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Schwelle 7 – Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V.
Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert
info at felixruckert.de

Trafic Link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB  
Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

  
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