Human Geography and the Practice of Presence

iLAND- interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance invites you to public engagements for the iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence Program.

Human Geography and the Practice of Presence

Collaborators:

Karl Cronin, Choreographer, NYC
Sasha Cuerda, Geographer, Chicago
with Dancer Maggie Bennett

Dates, Times, Location:

6-8 pm Thursday, July 10, 2008: The Choreography of Agency

An evening of movement and experiences and experiments — through a series of guided practices led by the collaborators, participants will have the opportunity to explore different ways of relating to space using their kinetic experience as a starting point.

and

6-8pm Thursday, July 31, 2008: Summer highlights and discoveries

An evening presentation which explores research highlights as well as the struggles and possibilities inherent in art-science collaboration.

Located at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine. Light refreshments will be served.

Directions and Transportation:

Meet in front of The Waterfront Museum at at 290 Conover St. at Pier 44.

The museum is at the end of Van Brunt St. Turn right on Reed St., go one block and turn left on Conover. Go through the entrance gate to the right to Pier 44. For more specific directions call 212 375-8283 or click here.

**Wednesday evenings 6-8pm, an open practice session will be held with the collaborators that is open to the public.

For more information call Karl at 617 759- 8466.

The collaborators will conduct movement research based on two leading theories from the field of Human Geography: Action Network Theory (ANT) and Non-Representational Theory. These two theories have been widely debated within the field of geography, and in their own ways postulate a manner of being in space that involves interacting directly with one’s environment—moving beyond layers of semiotics and abstracted representations.

During the iLAB residency, the collaborators will create movement practices that begin to address some of the fundamental elements of these two theories, and will offer opportunities for participants to engage in the movement practices firsthand. Scores will be developed and tested and presented on-site at Brooklyn Bridge Park as well, as two locations yet to be determined in the Brooklyn littoral zone.

iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within different fields/disciplines. The goals of iLAB are 1) to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and the urban environment through kinetic experience, 2) to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance, art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we create and investigate innovative approaches to science, infrastructure, urbanisms, and architecture within a performative context, and 3) to support the development of process in engagement over product such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

iLAND is a not for profit organization conceived and formed by choreographer Jennifer Monson in 2004. The organization’s mission is to investigate the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. iLAND, a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields.

iLAB 2008 is supported in part by the Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council.

info@ilandart.org
212-375-8283