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