Project by Alessandro Carboni
Alessandro Carboni presents a further step of Always Becoming project in Hong Kong. The project is a nomadic platform of research
reflecting on the body by combining performative practices, embodiment
processes, urban space cartography and experimental geography. Conceived
as a collaborative working platform, the project is founded on the
interdependence between science, practice and production. Performers,
artists and theorists share research materials, thoughts, ideas to work
around the body as vector, as a tool and not a condition, to analyze
the environment and the urban space. Time and space will be approached
from a variety of viewpoints; artistic, political, social. The research
period is envisioned to be oscillating between moments of urban
explorations, performances, workshops, rehearsal, informal presentations
and longer outdoor practice sessions. Always Becoming# took place
already in several cities such as Aarhus, Malmo, Copenhagen.The
project is a production by Progressive Archive, with the support of Hong
Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC); Videotage: Fuse
Artist-in-residence Programme; Italian Culture Institute of Hong Kong;
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.Activities:WORKSHOPEM: tools urban practice and performance practicewith Alessandro Carboni04-18-25.02.2016 – 7:00pm to 10:00pm @ School of Creative MediaEM
is a method of urban mapping and performance practice created by
Alessandro Carboni that uses the body as device to capture and extract
urban events and to map what happens in a place in its geometrical and
temporal extension. The method allows to deal with those events and
embody, reconfigure them with a choreographic thinking. The workshop
provides practical and theoretical activities in studio and outdoors. info: acarboni.promo@gmail.comLECTURESpacing resonance in the topology of the voicewith Piersandra di Matteo23.2.2016 (Wed) – 5:00pm@ 6/F Future Cinema M6094 – School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (more info)EXHIBITIONCity_Scores# – video and drawings20-28.2.2016 – 11:00am to 6:00pm Opening 19.2.2016 (Fri) – 6:00pm to 8:00pm@ Videotage, Cattle Depot Artist VillagePERFORMANCECorporeal Maps#Hong Kong19.2.2016 (Fri) – 6:00pm to 8:00pm@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village23-24, 26.2.2016 – 5:00pm25.2.2016 – 11:00am 27-28.2.2016 – 2:00pm@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist VillageSYMPOSIUMEmbodied City – talks, presentation, detours20.2.2016 (Sat) – 11:00am to 6:00pm @ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village21.2.2016 (Sun) – 10:00am to 6:00pm @ Peng Chau island (more info)Visual/media
artists, theorists, performers and urban planners – including
Piersandra di Matteo (Performing Arts Theorist), MapOffice/Laurent
Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (Architect/Visual Artist), Yang Yeung
(Curator), David Jhave Johnston (Digital Poet), Jane Prophet (Media
Artist), Damien Charrieras (Media Theorist), Lai Wai Yi, Monti (Visual
Artist), Josef Bares (Visual Artist) and more… – will sit down
face-to-face with Carboni, and openly discuss the relations between body
and city, embodiment processes, urban space cartography and mapping
practices.Working team:Project, installations and choreography | Alessandro CarboniPerformers | Felix Ke and Tsui IvyProject Coordinator | Florence WaiTexts and images | Alessandro CarboniAssistant and texts editing | Luxi FangWebsite: alwaysbecomingproject.wordpress.comContacts:Web: www.progressivearchive.comProject: alwaysbecomingproject.wordpress.comEmail: acarboni.promo@gmail.com