Performing Arts Forum(PAF), France, 01-06 Dec 2008

2008-02-01T18:07:37Z

01/12 – 06/12, Reims/F
instituting spaces / making space in institutions
How can we find or make space to address our (individual and collective) desires and problems? Can we think of the making (and yielding) of space (a room, a building, a space for action or thinking, a laboratory, a meeting, a dinner…) as a form of practice? What problems and limitations do we encounter through this, and how can we creatively work with those constraints? How might we think about such practice, its organization and sustainability?
At the same time, we are all implicated in institutional frameworks in one way or another (schools, galleries, theatres, hospitals, NGOs) and struggle with as well as benefit from the ways in which those institutions are configured. How do we make spaces in existing institutions – what strategies can we work with in order to negotiate spaces for our ideas and practices in this case?
These two aspects of spatial and instituent practice will be considered through the following two perspectives:
• Instituting a space. To find a space that can be made into an institution, to invent an institution and its space. The Performing Arts Forum near Reims is an example of this: its founder, Jan Ritsema, will spend a day with the lab group to address the desires, reasons and also pragmatics underlying his process of setting up PAF. We’ll be working within the space of PAF, trying to understand it from different perspectives throughout the week.
• Making space within an institution. To find a space within an existing institution, which allows us to address problems and work around our own questions and desires. The university could be an example of such an institution; in what ways do we invent and install spaces for ourselves, to work collectively, address problems, think? Some examples of spatial production from within institutions could be understood through: student politics, the founding of clubs, discussion evenings, common rooms, unions. In our proposals, space refers to a material as well as a social and mental framework. 
Carla Bottiglieri will take a novel by Robert Walser as point of departure to ask the question: “how can be inhabit institutional spaces without becoming subject and object to the power relations they operate by?”. Her entry on “Un-power” addresses possible strategies for relating to power by slipping under it, escaping its call.
organized by: Manuela Zechner and Paz Rojo 
with: Jan Ritsema (NL/F), Carla Bottiglieri (F) 
held at Performing Arts Forum Reims, F 
for more information about staying at Paf, go to <a href="http://www.pa-f.net">www.pa-f.net</a>
this lab also functions as the second part of a longer working process with studenst from the SNDO in Amsterdam, but it is
free and open to all 
deadline for registrations (send us an email): 31st October 2008 
email info [at]vocabulaboratories.net 3 Performing Arts Forum(PAF), France, 01-06 Dec 2008

2008-10-21T05:48:10Z

2008-01-22T14:25:41Z

this lab will take place for 7 days in graz, between oct 13-18th 2008, in the framework of steirischer herbst festival. we will be working with the notion of “strategy” – what could its meaning and relevance be to us, in different situations etc? below some more info in german and english.
Guests: Ludotek/ES; Judith Schwendtner/AT; Judith Revel/F
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how do we articulate spaces for action?
How can we make what we do (whether in theory or in practice) articulable and effective? How and when does working with concepts – beyond disciplinary boundaries – create new spaces for action? And how can we critically convey these possibilities?
vocabulaboratories is a long-term, collaborative project that works with individual and collective vocabularies. we take “vocabularies” to be tool-boxes based on ideas and strategies, with the aid of which we position ourselves in the 
world, try to understand ourselves and explore our possibilities for action.
The focus of this workshop – one stage of ‘vocabulaboratories’ – is on the spaces of meaning opened up by our own vocabularies and through the concept of ‘strategy’. Our guests will contribute the notions of ‘empowerment’, ‘survival’ and the ‘common’, from their respective perspectives – arts, architecture, philosophy, social work. We will go from practice to theory and back again, taking our concepts to facilitate research and interventions in public space, enter into conversation with local socially committed organisations and question our engagements, from a philosophical as well as strategic point of view.
organized by: Manuela Zechner and Paz Rojo 
with: Ludotek (ES), Judith Revel (F), Judith Schwendtner (A) 
as part of Steirischer Herbst festival Graz
more information and to apply: <a href="http://www.steirischerherbst.at">www.steirischerherbst.at</a> , <a href="mailto:dermond@steirischerherbst.at">dermond@steirischerherbst.at</a>
deadline for applications is July 20th 2008.
we can give support for travel costs as well as grants where urgently needed. there is a fee for this workshop (120€) which includes a festival pass for all exhibitions, performances, lectures etc, as well as lunches and drinks, and our forthcoming project publication. we would like to enable people in financially precarious positions to come, and are happy to negotiate individual solutions with people – please write to us if you’d need support in order to come.
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Vocabulaboratories – wie treffen Konzepte auf Handlungsräume?
„Vocabulaboratories“ ist ein langfristiges, kollaboratives Projekt zur 
Erforschung von Vokabularen, also von Werkzeugenkisten, denen Ideen 
und Strategien zu Grunde liegen mit Hilfe derer wir uns in der Welt 
positionieren, uns selbst zu verstehen suchen, unsere 
Handlungsmöglichkeiten ausloten.
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Workshops – einer Station von „Vocabulatories“ – 
steht die Frage nach Bedeutungsräumen, die der Begriff „Strategie“ 
eröffnet. Dazu werden individuelle und kollektive Vokabulare 
untersucht: Als Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum, im Gespräch mit 
lokalen sozial engagierten Organisationen sowie als philosophische und kritische 
Hinterfragung des Begriffs „Strategie“, besonders in Bezug auf den Begriff der "Maschine".
Wie können wir das, was wir tun (ob in Theorie oder Praxis) 
artikulierbar und wirksam machen? Wie und wann schafft das Arbeiten 
mit Konzepten – jenseits von Fachgebieten – neue Handlungsräume? Und 
wie können wir diese Möglichkeiten kritisch vermitteln.
_Mit Fragen und zum Teilnehmen bitte einfach ein email an uns schicken! Oder auf <a href="http://www.steirischerherbst.at">www.steirischerherbst.at</a> eine Bewerbung einreichen – es gibt auch Stipendien für diesen workshop, die Kosten (inkl Festivalpass, Essen und Publikation) sind 120€. Wir können aber spezifische Läsungen aushandeln, falls die Gebühr ein großes Problem für jemanden darstellt.
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If you´d like to apply for that workshop drop us an email, or go to <a href="http://www.steirischerherbst.at">www.steirischerherbst.at</a> to send them an application. there are stipends and other kinds of financial help for people who would like to join but might not have the resources available. 2 Graz, steirischer herbst, 13-18 Oct 2008

2008-06-28T12:24:26Z

2008-01-22T14:08:42Z

This lab will be held at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, with a group of third year students, teachers and external visitors.
We will bring texts, books and films with us, in order to assemble a library that we can use to research vocabulary entries; we ask you to do the same, and bring resources/documents pertinent to your current working process, questions and concerns.
We would also like to ask you to make a preliminary list of terms that you consider important in your current vocabulary, so that on our first day together we can decide which terms each of us will focus on, and further transform into entries.
The sessions will be running between 11am and 5pm in studio 406 (and 602), starting on the 18th and finishing on the 22nd of February.
Key texts for this lab:
➢ Michel Foucault; Self writing
➢ Paolo Virno, A grammar of the multitude; Chapter 4, labour action, intellect; sections 4.1 – 4.7 
<a href="http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm">http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm</a>
➢ Suely Rolnik, Geopolitics of Pimping 
<a href="http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/1106/rolnik/en">http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/1106/rolnik/en</a>
Optional texts:
➢ Raqs Media Collective, X notes on practice 
<a href="http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/texts4.html">http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/texts4.html</a> 1 Amsterdam, SNDO, feb 18-22 2008

2008-02-12T07:56:41Z