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MAKING, REMAKING, UNMAKING BOOKS / Ponderosa Spoon Camp/ June 13-17 2016
with Sandra Wieser and Stephanie Maher
During the Spoon Camp 2016, we will facilitate a week long process that invites participants to either:
*create a personal document-book-object.
*create a collective [self-published] publication together.
*unmake books into new books (see last years Archives & Documentation)
Last year our controversial idea was to “destroy” 5 books from our library with the intention to reabsorb ourselves into the content of the books, to be physical with them and to keep them activated and alive with a new discovery of the text, images and content. A collaged remaking.
See Sorry, Bill… by Stephanie Maher, published by Mead Hill in November 2015.
Is this a beginning of the 2016 collection? Is there the desire or need in our vicinity to create a real publishing house for future dance/multidisciplinary performance documentation? Do you want to be a part of this?
The Spoon Camp will be a tank for playing with public timing and creative process in the moment around documentation and making publications for the now and for the future.
We invite dancers, writers and performers to tap into the Archives hold in the Living Library and to use it as a factory/atelier space from which to activate thoughts into the choreographies of book making.
Materials
We will provide a scanner, a zerox copy machine, book binding materials, paper and finance the basic printing costs.
Please bring personal materials, such as paper, scissors, glue and whatever you might need to create your book(s).
Schedule
We will work in the non structured spoon camp mode or non-schedule. – but the library space is available 24/7 for working. We will meet a minimum of 2 hours a day.
Registration
www.ponderosa-dance.de/spoon-camp.html
During the Spoon Camp 2016, we will facilitate a week long process that invites participants to either:
*create a personal document-book-object.
*create a collective [self-published] publication together.
*unmake books into new books (see last years Archives & Documentation)
Last year our controversial idea was to “destroy” 5 books from our library with the intention to reabsorb ourselves into the content of the books, to be physical with them and to keep them activated and alive with a new discovery of the text, images and content. A collaged remaking.
See Sorry, Bill… by Stephanie Maher, published by Mead Hill in November 2015.
Is this a beginning of the 2016 collection? Is there the desire or need in our vicinity to create a real publishing house for future dance/multidisciplinary performance documentation? Do you want to be a part of this?
The Spoon Camp will be a tank for playing with public timing and creative process in the moment around documentation and making publications for the now and for the future.
We invite dancers, writers and performers to tap into the Archives hold in the Living Library and to use it as a factory/atelier space from which to activate thoughts into the choreographies of book making.
Materials
We will provide a scanner, a zerox copy machine, book binding materials, paper and finance the basic printing costs.
Please bring personal materials, such as paper, scissors, glue and whatever you might need to create your book(s).
Schedule
We will work in the non structured spoon camp mode or non-schedule. – but the library space is available 24/7 for working. We will meet a minimum of 2 hours a day.
Registration
www.ponderosa-dance.de/spoon-camp.html
STEPHANIE MAHER'S TAUBEN BLAU ACT / 2015 - 2017
Bringing attention to our fragmented selves and senses; homing pigeons slow us down.
My hope is to serve all of us!
See you in the air.
You are invited…………
A 2-year project promoting and passing artistic containers for our fragmented artistic livelihood and survival.
Crucial! Whatever medium you work in, needs to be transcribed or transformed to be sent via post or to our Tauben Blau homing pigeons.
This is not an Internet platform. This is an answer to artists around the world who are slowly succumbing to the Internet as our main gallery, production source and performing stage.
MORE INFO COMING SOON!
My hope is to serve all of us!
See you in the air.
You are invited…………
A 2-year project promoting and passing artistic containers for our fragmented artistic livelihood and survival.
Crucial! Whatever medium you work in, needs to be transcribed or transformed to be sent via post or to our Tauben Blau homing pigeons.
This is not an Internet platform. This is an answer to artists around the world who are slowly succumbing to the Internet as our main gallery, production source and performing stage.
MORE INFO COMING SOON!
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!
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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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.
