ARCHIVES & DOCUMENTATION
BOOK REMAKE, JUNE 2014
with Stephanie Maher, Sandra Wieser, Carol Manchester, Jen Polins and Asher
This year we don't want to be so precious with our books. Yes it was work and money and time to get them over and keep track of them but we still claim practice, action and physical disruption over the dead objects and theories. We love the writings and the History of our community. But that's not all… This summer is about rewriting, overwriting, unmaking, referring, deferring, reclaiming, deviating, rephrasing, erasing, sabotaging, oversizing, unbuttoning, unfolding, submitting, collaging, transferring, translating, transposing, irritating, dilapidating, recreating!
This year we don't want to be so precious with our books. Yes it was work and money and time to get them over and keep track of them but we still claim practice, action and physical disruption over the dead objects and theories. We love the writings and the History of our community. But that's not all… This summer is about rewriting, overwriting, unmaking, referring, deferring, reclaiming, deviating, rephrasing, erasing, sabotaging, oversizing, unbuttoning, unfolding, submitting, collaging, transferring, translating, transposing, irritating, dilapidating, recreating!
*ZINE FACTORY / P.O.R.C.H. Training Module / June 2014
with Sandra Wieser and P.O.R.C.H. artists & guests: Annelise, Shelley, Alice, Adi, Johannes, Ida, Sura, Molly, Genevieve, Saara, Georg, Erin, Ella, Harrison, Rachel, Kyra, Brandy, Darcy & Mor
Create a collective Zine in a couple of hours is the challenge Sandra Wieser gave to the P.O.R.C.H. participants of the Training and Improvisation Module.
By the end of the day each dancer was invited to submit a piece of writing, a photography, or a drawing, documenting an inner creative process or interest.
All documents were then scanned, layed out together and printed out in the format of a black and white Zine*.
Format: ca. A5, 20 pages, Languages: English/German, self-published, 25 copies. PDF DOCUMENT of the ZINE.
*A zine (/ˈziːn/ zeen; an abbreviation of fanzine or magazine) is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier. (more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine)
Create a collective Zine in a couple of hours is the challenge Sandra Wieser gave to the P.O.R.C.H. participants of the Training and Improvisation Module.
By the end of the day each dancer was invited to submit a piece of writing, a photography, or a drawing, documenting an inner creative process or interest.
All documents were then scanned, layed out together and printed out in the format of a black and white Zine*.
Format: ca. A5, 20 pages, Languages: English/German, self-published, 25 copies. PDF DOCUMENT of the ZINE.
*A zine (/ˈziːn/ zeen; an abbreviation of fanzine or magazine) is most commonly a small circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier. (more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine)
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*KAMIKAZE WRITING WORKSHOP / July 2014
with Elizabeth Zimmer (NYC, USA)
Riding on the inspirations and coattails of the Live Legacy Project in Dusseldorf, we were thrilled to have Elizabeth Zimmer, a veteran dance critic from NYC, spend 2 weeks at Ponderosa teaching her Kamikaze writing workshop and sharing her wisdom about basic grammar and the inner workings of the American press with many of the festival participants. Zimmer has been at the heart of the post modern dance scene since the 60’s, and performed her saucy, autobiographic one-woman show in addition to being available for writing consultations and teaching her workshop.YES! To combining generations and sharing personal and political histories! YES! To more young artists developing skills needed to represent their work in the world! YES! The Living Library lined with publications that became both a sanctuary and an intoxicant for cross pollinated creative processes!
Riding on the inspirations and coattails of the Live Legacy Project in Dusseldorf, we were thrilled to have Elizabeth Zimmer, a veteran dance critic from NYC, spend 2 weeks at Ponderosa teaching her Kamikaze writing workshop and sharing her wisdom about basic grammar and the inner workings of the American press with many of the festival participants. Zimmer has been at the heart of the post modern dance scene since the 60’s, and performed her saucy, autobiographic one-woman show in addition to being available for writing consultations and teaching her workshop.YES! To combining generations and sharing personal and political histories! YES! To more young artists developing skills needed to represent their work in the world! YES! The Living Library lined with publications that became both a sanctuary and an intoxicant for cross pollinated creative processes!
*MEETING FRED. LIFTING THE CURTAIN OF THIS PREINVENTED WORLD /
Living Library Opening / March 2014
Peter Pleyer performed his piece Meeting Fred. Lifting the curtain of this preinvented world for the opening of the Living Library in the heart of the village of Stolzenhagen.
*The Living Library / Film by Elma Riza / February 2014
Elma Riza created this video for the library while being an artist in residency at Ponderosa during the winter-spring of 2014.
*READING DUET / Books on the Move / 2013
A film by Katelyn Stiles and Kata Kovács based on the performance 'Reading Duet' by Kata Kovács and Sandra Wieser. The performance took place in the Books on the Move office in Berlin with the kind help of Agnès Benoit.
*BODIES & BOOKS / P.O.R.C.H. Training Module / June 2013
Sandra Wieser led a week long lab during the P.O.R.C.H. Training Module in which the participants had the possibility to overlap writing, reading, drawing and movement practices in a shared studio. Film by In Kyung Lee.
