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What is practical knowledge? What is theoretical knowledge? What is embodied knowledge? Do we have a specialist in the room? |
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The Living Library is …
A growing collection of documents created by the artist communities connected to Ponderosa Movement & Discovery.
A compilation of Ponderosa‘s historical material including videos and pictures of performances, workshops, building sites, interviews, documentaries as well as dance films, personal writing and articles from the past 13 years. See our ONLINE CATALOGUE!
A space to curate events around books, archives and documentation.
An academic summer school for university, masters and Ph.D students.
A countryside retreat for dancers who write and writers who move.
A hub for artists, academics and the village community to share knowledge, practice, and intellectual processes.
A cross disciplinary library presenting influential and compelling texts, documents, film and magazines in the field of contemporary performance practices and discussions.
The Living Library project is keen to see how academic, performance and dance theory, as well as our writing practices, can take deeper roots within the Ponderosa dance programs, workshops and educational endeavors.
A compilation of Ponderosa‘s historical material including videos and pictures of performances, workshops, building sites, interviews, documentaries as well as dance films, personal writing and articles from the past 13 years. See our ONLINE CATALOGUE!
A space to curate events around books, archives and documentation.
An academic summer school for university, masters and Ph.D students.
A countryside retreat for dancers who write and writers who move.
A hub for artists, academics and the village community to share knowledge, practice, and intellectual processes.
A cross disciplinary library presenting influential and compelling texts, documents, film and magazines in the field of contemporary performance practices and discussions.
The Living Library project is keen to see how academic, performance and dance theory, as well as our writing practices, can take deeper roots within the Ponderosa dance programs, workshops and educational endeavors.
Our goals are to …
Inhabit and incarnate a physical space to unfold the archives left by the wide community of artists who have gathered here, and to open up a physical, tangible and continuous web of information, papers and visuals.
Rethink, rewrite, demystify, translate and recycle the texts and documents that have been created—without allowing them to idle on the shelves.
Bring attention to the vast amount of theoretical and historical documents that exist in the fields of dance, performance and art.
Encourage the younger generations of dancers and performers to engage with the library, documentation, and making history.
Establish ongoing exchanges and residencies with academic institutions in parallel with the training, improvisation and performance program.
Curate events that revolve around and that experiment with books, documentation, and archives.
Provoke artists to go further with their writing and documentation processes.
Support artists in their personal writings and publications.
Rethink, rewrite, demystify, translate and recycle the texts and documents that have been created—without allowing them to idle on the shelves.
Bring attention to the vast amount of theoretical and historical documents that exist in the fields of dance, performance and art.
Encourage the younger generations of dancers and performers to engage with the library, documentation, and making history.
Establish ongoing exchanges and residencies with academic institutions in parallel with the training, improvisation and performance program.
Curate events that revolve around and that experiment with books, documentation, and archives.
Provoke artists to go further with their writing and documentation processes.
Support artists in their personal writings and publications.
The Living Library Manifesto
1 - We do not want to spend our days alone on the internet.
2 - The documentation of our practices matters.
3 - We care about the documents from our dance ancestors as well as the ones from our contemporaries.
4 - A physical space containing an archive that touches us, informs us and speaks to us. One anyone can engage, visit and add on.
5 - We love the self-published, self-documented sitting next to the mainstream : books you can buy in the museum gift shop.
6 - We are triggered by the maps of our personal and communal histories. The pathways that brought us here with all their intersections, stops, shortcuts, U-turns, one-way streets, and red lights over deserts and seas. The meeting points, turning points and separations.
7 - We believe that artists should be involved in writing their own history and contribute to their times by reading, by asking, by knowing, by understanding, by reflecting, by translating, by collaborating with the theorist, and by speaking out in a multiplicity of ways.
8 - Purely absorbing the words, naturally forgetting the sentences; their contexts, their authors, and dramatically noting down one single detail IS NO LONGER ENOUGH.
9 - We long for embodied theory and articulated practices.
10 - At the end of the day, do we want to be walking like tourists in dance land?
2 - The documentation of our practices matters.
3 - We care about the documents from our dance ancestors as well as the ones from our contemporaries.
4 - A physical space containing an archive that touches us, informs us and speaks to us. One anyone can engage, visit and add on.
5 - We love the self-published, self-documented sitting next to the mainstream : books you can buy in the museum gift shop.
6 - We are triggered by the maps of our personal and communal histories. The pathways that brought us here with all their intersections, stops, shortcuts, U-turns, one-way streets, and red lights over deserts and seas. The meeting points, turning points and separations.
7 - We believe that artists should be involved in writing their own history and contribute to their times by reading, by asking, by knowing, by understanding, by reflecting, by translating, by collaborating with the theorist, and by speaking out in a multiplicity of ways.
8 - Purely absorbing the words, naturally forgetting the sentences; their contexts, their authors, and dramatically noting down one single detail IS NO LONGER ENOUGH.
9 - We long for embodied theory and articulated practices.
10 - At the end of the day, do we want to be walking like tourists in dance land?
