Summer Intensive

SI. is the initiative by Christine De Smedt co-curated by Myriam Van Imschoot and produced by Les Ballets C de la B to host artists from various backgrounds to meet for exchange and develop (a part of) a project in a brief amount of time.

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Based on the interviews with Summer Intensive participants made by Dmitry Paranyushkin with ThisIsLike the visualizations above were created in Gephi. They represent the field of interests, concerns, and research for each participant that came up during the interviews.

The terms / concepts that are bigger within the network are sort of “junctures” through which most of the other concepts are realized, sort of important passageways for the meaning (in terms of network analysis they have high “betweenness centrality”). These are not necessarily the most frequently mentioned ones, but rather the ones without which the network as a whole could not function, the most influential nodes within the network. 

The communities (indicated with the color of the nodes) are comprised of the nodes that are very well interconnected between each other, more so than with the rest of the network. 

The table at the bottom gives an insight about some main parameters of each participant’s network of interests. Those that have low power law distribution are the ones where the importance is distributed more or less equally between the concepts. While the ones with the high power law distribution indicate the networks where one or two concepts have much higher significance than the rest. The clustering coefficient indicates how embedded the nodes are into their neighborhood. When it is low it indicates a network that has more sparse connections, has more branches on the periphery, and could be more open to learning.

To see the network of the whole group of artists from Summer Intensive click here.
Aug 28

An interview between Vladimir Miller and Dmitry Paranyushkin on space strategies and how space can facilitate renegotiation of certain behaviors, interactions, relations, and thinking between the participants. 
Aug 24
Aug 24

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Dialogue box used to have conversations during Summer Intensive. By Vladimir Miller and co.
Aug 24
Dialogue box used to have conversations during Summer Intensive. By Vladimir Miller and co.

“Where are you in your trajectory as makers, thinkers, etc, and with what needs and issues are you grappling? What would you like to bring to SI. as a proposal to work on, or if this is already too definite: what sphere of interests do you like to bring to our gathering? Through these discussions we also like to find out how we can practically organize the right conditions.”

Dmitry Paranyushkin is a performer and digital media artist –DeeMeeTree.Com. Dmitry developed ThisIsLike.Com, an online mapping initiative where the knowledge is realized not through a fixed concept, but through a relationship, an active event. In SI he wants to use the structure of This is Like to explore associative narratives as the basis for a performance piece (instead of working with a script).

Lenio Kaklea is a choreographer and performer based in Paris. In “matter-of-act”, the project she proposes for SI, she attempts to create a “live documentation” of SI by its spectators and investigate the various impacts of the artistic works by actually performing them! SI and the project “matter-of-act” search for 5 participants of all practices and ages, in order to create a group of spectators who will investigate the interactive relationship between an art work and it’s audience.The dispositive is simple: the participants will assist together to various experimental works developed by the invited artists during SI, investigate the different ways of watching, perceiving and receiving the works and create together a piece out of what they saw. Participants will work on a voluntary basis and should be available from august 16th till august 28th. Rehearsals are planned from 12u till 18u (also Weekend), at the Bijloke Site, Bijlokekaai Gent. There will be a final presentation on the 28th of august.

Vladimir Miller is a visual artist of Russian descent, based in Berlin. He has developed a model of working with people in situ by way of using the city as a model to engender and structure activities, projects, events and encounters. His interested in different knowledges, how to map them and activitate them through spatializations. For Si he likes to implement this practice and share it with the members of SI. Another desire that he has is to discuss the making of a website through which artists can communicate their ideas in view of finding people who can support them.

Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist interested in the links between drawing, thinking and action. While having had an ongoing interest in practices of mapping, in more recent years he has come to focus on the diagram as a figure. In SI. he likes to experiment with a series of diagrams and their potential to score (group) actions. He would also like to present his forthcoming publication with diagrams in view of feedback and discussions.Gansterer.Org 

Lizi Estaras is choreographer and dancer. She is currently seeking for different ways of producing movement and choreography. Improvisation as a choreographic machine and eating soup as time keeper for the actions is one of her ideas she would like to explore. Lisi will be part of SI. during two short periods of time but wants to elaborate further on “Food that is made by combining ingredients” lisi: “In short, I have been working with les ballets C de la B since 1997 as a dancer and choreographer. For SI I proposed “SOUP”, an event I am preparing for the month of December, in Gent. Today 3th of August, I have been in Argentina for two months and I must confess that they are quite a lot of other experiments I will like to try as well for SI. 
“ A distancia” is a project where the construction happens in the distance, with people living in Belgium and Argentina. Once a month we send tasks to each other by SMS or facebook, the tasks have two weeks to be realized, filmed and sent back. Then they will be published on line for people to follow the process, eventually we will meet to put the material together and make a piece out of this. On the 18 of August I will send and receive my first tasks and since I will be in SI I will like to use that day to work on it.”

Sergio Cruz is a Portuguese filmmaker, based in London. His chief topic is the human body in motion. This interest led into a series of dance films, documentaries, film works. During SI. Sergio would like to show his recent work and discuss it in view of the transitions that are happening in his work towards more cinematic approaches, grounded in more spontaneous film making methods.

Pieter Ampe is a dancer and choreographer. He works and lives in Belgium, is an artist in residency in the theatre and productionhouse CAMPO where he ‘s searching and developing work: “I try to find ways to devellop work with people, in an open and collaborative way, which deals with our urgencies and questions of that moment. I gave up my fear for being lost, and whish to embrace my doubtfull, unclear nature of thinking in order to be able to search more joyfully.

He also dances in the ROSAS production The Song.

Pieter is involved in the informal network Sweet&Tender collaborations. For SI. he wants to elaborate further his thinking and writing on a project within the Sweet&Tender collaborations idea.

Lilia Mestre is a performing artist creating her own pieces and working in collaboration with other artists. She created the company Random Scream with Davis Freeman in 1999 to expose the eclectic elements of everyday culture with proposed lines of flight for dance, theatre, and visual arts. For SI., Lilia wants to continue the research started in “Moving you”, a recent project in which the relation between, objects, movement and sound is worked upon. “If an affective body is a place of constant negotiation with one’s own rhythms, stories, perceptions and contexts, I’m interested to look into the body as a body that co-habitats, exchanges and produces “meaning” in the inter relation with the outside, (which is always) and how to make this visible and playful.
“My last piece,”Moving you” displays and plays with a range of possible relations one can have with “others” and “things”. The idea was to work with different layers of existance like people, objects, knowledge, dreams, time, etc and to play with these thoughts and attributes in their relationality. The basic medium for this choregraphic game was objects, sound and movement.” www.mokum.be  ”

Myriam Van Imschoot is involved in what she calls ‘expanded publication’. Rather than restricting herself to the ‘page’ and the book she engages with multiple media to publish her work, making use of the sensorial range of these media as an intrinsic value. Over the past two years she uses interview archives as the main vector for expanded publications such as Fax Film, Pick up Voices (a performance in collaboration with Christine De Smedt) and sound installations. For Si she likes to develop ideas in the framework of a solo-work in which she investigates the link between voice, her own extensive interview archive accumulated over the past twenty years and autobiography.

Christine De Smedt will work on models for ‘conversation’, the translation and composition for performative structures. Appropriation and display are part of the focus. She is currently working on the project ‘Untitled Four’, a series of portraits made on the basis of interviews. She would like to present raw materials from this project and set up different forms of conversations as part of the process of SI. and as a daily practice.
Aug 19
Aug 19

Invited Artists

Summer Intensive

Posted on Saturday August 28th 2010 at 05:55pm. Its tags are listed below.

Based on the interviews with Summer Intensive participants made by Dmitry Paranyushkin with ThisIsLike the visualizations above were created in Gephi. They represent the field of interests, concerns, and research for each participant that came up during the interviews.

The terms / concepts that are bigger within the network are sort of “junctures” through which most of the other concepts are realized, sort of important passageways for the meaning (in terms of network analysis they have high “betweenness centrality”). These are not necessarily the most frequently mentioned ones, but rather the ones without which the network as a whole could not function, the most influential nodes within the network. 

The communities (indicated with the color of the nodes) are comprised of the nodes that are very well interconnected between each other, more so than with the rest of the network. 

The table at the bottom gives an insight about some main parameters of each participant’s network of interests. Those that have low power law distribution are the ones where the importance is distributed more or less equally between the concepts. While the ones with the high power law distribution indicate the networks where one or two concepts have much higher significance than the rest. The clustering coefficient indicates how embedded the nodes are into their neighborhood. When it is low it indicates a network that has more sparse connections, has more branches on the periphery, and could be more open to learning.

To see the network of the whole group of artists from Summer Intensive click here.

Summer Intensive

Posted on Tuesday August 24th 2010 at 07:27pm. Its tags are listed below.

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An interview between Vladimir Miller and Dmitry Paranyushkin on space strategies and how space can facilitate renegotiation of certain behaviors, interactions, relations, and thinking between the participants. 

Summer Intensive

Posted on Tuesday August 24th 2010 at 07:10pm. Its tags are listed below.

Dialogue box used to have conversations during Summer Intensive. By Vladimir Miller and co.
Dialogue box used to have conversations during Summer Intensive. By Vladimir Miller and co.

Dialogue box used to have conversations during Summer Intensive. By Vladimir Miller and co.

Invited Artists

Posted on Thursday August 19th 2010 at 08:21pm. Its tags are listed below.

Invited Artists

“Where are you in your trajectory as makers, thinkers, etc, and with what needs and issues are you grappling? What would you like to bring to SI. as a proposal to work on, or if this is already too definite: what sphere of interests do you like to bring to our gathering? Through these discussions we also like to find out how we can practically organize the right conditions.”

Dmitry Paranyushkin is a performer and digital media artist –DeeMeeTree.Com. Dmitry developed ThisIsLike.Com, an online mapping initiative where the knowledge is realized not through a fixed concept, but through a relationship, an active event. In SI he wants to use the structure of This is Like to explore associative narratives as the basis for a performance piece (instead of working with a script).

Lenio Kaklea is a choreographer and performer based in Paris. In “matter-of-act”, the project she proposes for SI, she attempts to create a “live documentation” of SI by its spectators and investigate the various impacts of the artistic works by actually performing them! SI and the project “matter-of-act” search for 5 participants of all practices and ages, in order to create a group of spectators who will investigate the interactive relationship between an art work and it’s audience.The dispositive is simple: the participants will assist together to various experimental works developed by the invited artists during SI, investigate the different ways of watching, perceiving and receiving the works and create together a piece out of what they saw. Participants will work on a voluntary basis and should be available from august 16th till august 28th. Rehearsals are planned from 12u till 18u (also Weekend), at the Bijloke Site, Bijlokekaai Gent. There will be a final presentation on the 28th of august.

Vladimir Miller is a visual artist of Russian descent, based in Berlin. He has developed a model of working with people in situ by way of using the city as a model to engender and structure activities, projects, events and encounters. His interested in different knowledges, how to map them and activitate them through spatializations. For Si he likes to implement this practice and share it with the members of SI. Another desire that he has is to discuss the making of a website through which artists can communicate their ideas in view of finding people who can support them.

Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist interested in the links between drawing, thinking and action. While having had an ongoing interest in practices of mapping, in more recent years he has come to focus on the diagram as a figure. In SI. he likes to experiment with a series of diagrams and their potential to score (group) actions. He would also like to present his forthcoming publication with diagrams in view of feedback and discussions.Gansterer.Org 

Lizi Estaras is choreographer and dancer. She is currently seeking for different ways of producing movement and choreography. Improvisation as a choreographic machine and eating soup as time keeper for the actions is one of her ideas she would like to explore. Lisi will be part of SI. during two short periods of time but wants to elaborate further on “Food that is made by combining ingredients” lisi: “In short, I have been working with les ballets C de la B since 1997 as a dancer and choreographer. For SI I proposed “SOUP”, an event I am preparing for the month of December, in Gent. Today 3th of August, I have been in Argentina for two months and I must confess that they are quite a lot of other experiments I will like to try as well for SI. 
“ A distancia” is a project where the construction happens in the distance, with people living in Belgium and Argentina. Once a month we send tasks to each other by SMS or facebook, the tasks have two weeks to be realized, filmed and sent back. Then they will be published on line for people to follow the process, eventually we will meet to put the material together and make a piece out of this. On the 18 of August I will send and receive my first tasks and since I will be in SI I will like to use that day to work on it.”

Sergio Cruz is a Portuguese filmmaker, based in London. His chief topic is the human body in motion. This interest led into a series of dance films, documentaries, film works. During SI. Sergio would like to show his recent work and discuss it in view of the transitions that are happening in his work towards more cinematic approaches, grounded in more spontaneous film making methods.

Pieter Ampe is a dancer and choreographer. He works and lives in Belgium, is an artist in residency in the theatre and productionhouse CAMPO where he ‘s searching and developing work: “I try to find ways to devellop work with people, in an open and collaborative way, which deals with our urgencies and questions of that moment. I gave up my fear for being lost, and whish to embrace my doubtfull, unclear nature of thinking in order to be able to search more joyfully.

He also dances in the ROSAS production The Song.

Pieter is involved in the informal network Sweet&Tender collaborations. For SI. he wants to elaborate further his thinking and writing on a project within the Sweet&Tender collaborations idea.

Lilia Mestre is a performing artist creating her own pieces and working in collaboration with other artists. She created the company Random Scream with Davis Freeman in 1999 to expose the eclectic elements of everyday culture with proposed lines of flight for dance, theatre, and visual arts. For SI., Lilia wants to continue the research started in “Moving you”, a recent project in which the relation between, objects, movement and sound is worked upon. “If an affective body is a place of constant negotiation with one’s own rhythms, stories, perceptions and contexts, I’m interested to look into the body as a body that co-habitats, exchanges and produces “meaning” in the inter relation with the outside, (which is always) and how to make this visible and playful.
“My last piece,”Moving you” displays and plays with a range of possible relations one can have with “others” and “things”. The idea was to work with different layers of existance like people, objects, knowledge, dreams, time, etc and to play with these thoughts and attributes in their relationality. The basic medium for this choregraphic game was objects, sound and movement.” www.mokum.be  ”

Myriam Van Imschoot is involved in what she calls ‘expanded publication’. Rather than restricting herself to the ‘page’ and the book she engages with multiple media to publish her work, making use of the sensorial range of these media as an intrinsic value. Over the past two years she uses interview archives as the main vector for expanded publications such as Fax Film, Pick up Voices (a performance in collaboration with Christine De Smedt) and sound installations. For Si she likes to develop ideas in the framework of a solo-work in which she investigates the link between voice, her own extensive interview archive accumulated over the past twenty years and autobiography.

Christine De Smedt will work on models for ‘conversation’, the translation and composition for performative structures. Appropriation and display are part of the focus. She is currently working on the project ‘Untitled Four’, a series of portraits made on the basis of interviews. She would like to present raw materials from this project and set up different forms of conversations as part of the process of SI. and as a daily practice.

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