Death is the least talked about subject in Western society. With the pandemic, death has come to the forefront of our spheres, yet again, we’re doing everything to avoid dealing with, processing or talking about it. The process of dying and how we choose to engage with it is inherent to life and our creativity. We’re faced with uncomfortable questions if we dare to listen. What is the right way to live? What is the right way to die? Is ‘safety first’ really the mantra that we want to live life after? What could be a new mantra? What if death is reframed from something to avoid, to something that just is, to something to celebrate? What’s the merit in death in its literal and metaphorical sense? What about the death of self? Who would you be if you wouldn’t be afraid of death? What about the 1000 deaths that we’re dying each day or maybe avoiding dying each day? What role does death play in our creativity? How does the denial or acceptance of death, in its literal and metaphorical sense influence creativity?

THE IDEA (to be collaborated)

For example: To ask 6 willing artists at The Palace to Reimagine Death as an open enquiry. This might start with a meditative practise. They might then have 3 hours to come up with a performance, painting, ritual, poetry, song, philosophical answer, dance whatever their medium, or all of the above. They then have a few minutes to present, perform their piece as part of a cabaret. The cabaret (perhaps called Featre) would be kicked off with the same meditative practise the artists went through. After every piece presented, the audience has a few minutes to reflect back how they reimagined death based on the performance they’ve just seen. After the 6 artists have presented their pieces, there is space for 3 audience members to improvise a piece either separately or together. They also have a few minutes each with reflections from the audience. The improvisation at the end of the ‘curated’ cabaret and let it be whatever comes up in the moment, which can go into chaos, perfection or anything in between is an homage to the unknown, that is inherent to death.

THE IDEA (to be collaborated)

For example: To ask 6 willing artists at The Palace to Reimagine Death as an open enquiry. This might start with a meditative practise. They might then have 3 hours to come up with a performance, painting, ritual, poetry, song, philosophical answer, dance whatever their medium, or all of the above. They then have a few minutes to present, perform their piece as part of a cabaret. The cabaret (perhaps called Featre) would be kicked off with the same meditative practise the artists went through. After every piece presented, the audience has a few minutes to reflect back how they reimagined death based on the performance they’ve just seen. After the 6 artists have presented their pieces, there is space for 3 audience members to improvise a piece either separately or together. They also have a few minutes each with reflections from the audience. The improvisation at the end of the ‘curated’ cabaret and let it be whatever comes up in the moment, which can go into chaos, perfection or anything in between is an homage to the unknown, that is inherent to death.

Lead Contributor: Juliane Mueller, jules@sexclubme.com

THE ART PLAYGROUND SPACE

Who are we? We are The ART Playground!

The ART Playground functions as a platform that showcases physical work by independent, unrepresented or unknown artists, underground performers and creatives of all types.It operates as a pop-up one day immersive, diy experimental art festival and it is structured in a non- hierarchical way as an arena of performances where the traditional boundaries of art are being challenged. For The Palace residency, we would like to propose the creation of a physical space that allows participants to explore different facets of playfulness. You never know what will happen in the Playground; you can find a space between control and chaos, in which the unexpected breathes unlimited possibilities. We would like to give all the participants the opportunity to engage and get to know each other through facilitating this ludic environment.

As Plato said: You will learn more about someone in an hour of play then in a year of conversation. We want to know you all by inviting you to join our “ Pallace Playground”.

It would exist as a safe space within the event, where everyone can come and experiment, as well as adding their own creations to a sanctuary of Creativity and Playfulness. We would encourage everyone to bring their creations within The Playground Arena in order to open a dialogue between the art and the audience.

Lead Contributor: Mircha Ivens, mirchaivens@yahoo.co.uk

Let's take a moment to focus on our breathing and one of the many ways we have to communicate, vocal cords. Relax and sing with me !

Lead Contributor: Christophe Bazin, christo.bazin@gmail.com

- no dance experience needed –

A space to explore nonverbal connection in dance and sensuality. With using methods of contact improvisation and tantra we will explore human interaction. We will focus on understanding and communicating our own boundaries non verbally. With allowing ourselves to get fully into the body and to feel what is right we’re finding the form of interaction which is right for us in this moment. Further we’re trying to get out of our movement patterns and exploring new ways of moving together

Lead Contributor: Lea Köhler, leakoehler@hotmail.de

In this short 15min Workshop you can learn how you to grow little nutrient bombs at home with very little effort. They are ready to eat within three days, can help you through the winter when its hard to get all the vitamins you need and you have something pretty to add to every meal.

Lead Contributor: Marieke, marieke@oranienstr.de

Poetry can pop

up out of

nowhere

and arise

within seconds.

We will play

play with words

words and forms

and maybe even

perform-

ance.

Join for an exchange and experiment with brainstorm, stream of consciousness, puzzling, adding up and leaving out. No experience in writing needed!

Lead Contributor: Klara Kruse Rosset, k.kruse.rosset@web.de

An evening for the flow makers, storytellers & multidisciplinary artists. Audience members donate Sweet and Sour memories into the Hat, With a wild spectrum from anywhere between Kiss’s from your grandmother as a sweet memory to stepping in some unpleasant faeces... Performers then Pick from either hat , as the originators call out their memories for the audience and artists to empathise with the nostalgic touch and explore the dynamic tension between both ideas in a live composition, within Ze Flow Kitchen.

Calling forth all those who love cooking up concoctions & spicing up the sauce of life...

Initiating Improvisers who dare to discover what is beyond the alphabet and jump into the great unknown, only to come back and tell the tale of the expansive spectrum of ther becoming in a Flow convergence that uproots more flow textures,modes and code for us all to cultivate our cooking, within the Ze Flow kitchen

Surrender to the spontaneous, Flow through all your senses & alter your states of consciousness as we get cooking at Ze Flow kitchen

As we taste this Cosmic soup

Lead Contributor: Muti, muti@informotionworldwide.com

Failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world.” - Jack Halberstam. For this project, we encourage people to attend all three workshops which will happen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

Workshop 3 - In this workshop, we’ll use movement to respond to the electronic vocal soundscape created in Parts 1 and 2 of the project. We will devise a collective piece exploring the relationship between sound, language and the body. Guided free movement exercises, including contact improvisation will allow us to connect with our individual and collective physicality's. No prior movement experience is required.

Lead Contributor: Sarah Parkes & Josh Grey-Jung, saeparkes@gmail.com & j.greyjung@gmail.com

The Tanquián experience: Will cover the first steps to take when people want to move to the land. Legal base, community, size of plot, gardens, animals, medicine, money, children.

Lead Contributor: Emmely , emmytanquian@gmail.com

A workshop that explores how the repression and expression of our sexuality can block and fertilise our creativity.

Sex Club is a conversational, brave space where we exchange sexual experiences and knowledge vulnerably to learn from each other. No one has sex figured out, yet we all have learned something along the way. Sex Club provides a space where can collectively piece together the puzzle of our ever evolving sexuality and connected creativity.As we taste this Cosmic soup

Lead Contributor: Juliane Mueller, Jules@sexclubme.com

Discussion about Fatness and Fatphobia

Lead Contributor: Stella Zekri, stellazekri@gmail.com

The journey to the happy dantian has stated during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. When all the money was getting stored up in the cloud, moving as fast as the fastest string of code, earthlings were waiting for some kind of rain or what central banks call the helicopter drop. Capital and its clerics were continuing to invent value-extraction rituals; the entities can’t refuse to go the church, because they are the church; energy can be directly sucked from the bodies through making them consume food. (..)

To complete the journey, the morphogenetic fields of all travellers need to be strengthened. The workshop, based on techniques of Hunyuan qi gong presents tools to connect to the elemental force, necessary for the arrival.

One time capacity: 8 travellers

Lead Contributor: Jo Vávra, jo@fatamorgana-estival.com

Basics of mastering with Ableton Live

(talk, 45-60 mins)

Mastering is often seen as the “dark art” of music production. It’s the most often part of the production process which is offloaded to a 3rd party, so much so that many producers seem to think that it’s a no-brainer to pay someone else to master your track. However, it doesn’t need to be that way. Mastering, especially for digital consumption, can be a relatively simple process which is easy to learn and do a “good enough” job by yourself. In this session I will talk through the basics of what mastering is trying to achieve, what components make up a typical mastering chain, and how to use Ableton Live with no extra plugins to realise it; as well as looking at considerations for different styles of music.

Lead Contributor: David Whiting, i.am@thewit.ch

SIRENS is an immersive voice led performance piece hidden in the woods of the palace. Steeped in game theory the performance explores the feminine and its resilience to persecution, a war cries deep from the heart of mother nature reminding us to always use our bodies and voices as a form of resistance.

Seeking: Dancers, Singers, Lighting technician /graphic designer, Set designer

Lead Contributor: GLOR1A, gloria.adereti@gmail.com

This will give you a taster to our playful approach to theatre. These workshops are for actors, dancers, movers and shakers - with as much or as little experience necessary. A great way to meet some new people, play a heap of games, get a sweat-on and limber up. "

Lead Contributor: Bianca Stephens, bianca.tairayne@gmail.com

LIOS - etymologically meaning ( /l̠ʲʊsˠ/ from Li “dynamic form of nature”; OS “operating system”) soil-rejuvenating pattern, is the name of a research project established in 2019, by cross-national agents, with a stationary base in Blędowska Desert, Poland.

A round table dialogue imagined to discuss memes, ideas and possibilities connected to the above-mentioned project and human resistance alliances. "

Lead Contributor: Jo Vávra, jo@fatamorgana-estival.com

Learn the basics of fermentation. It super easy, tasty and so good for you, your guts and overall well being. We will be making Kimchi, some wild ferments and brew some Kombucha.

Lead Contributor: Marieke, marieke@oranienstr.de

Using very simple mathematical rules it is possible to create elaborate and aesthetically pleasing forms. In this session I will demonstrate with examples the kind of possibilities that are available and deconstruct them to explain how they are constructed from simple algorithms. Covering both visual forms and music composition, I hope to inspire you about the potential and give you a starting point for your own experiments. There will be a little maths and a little coding but I’ll try to make it as accessible as possible so if you managed to pass maths class at school you should be fine.

Lead Contributor: David Whiting, i.am@thewit.ch

We will prepare a 3D objects in open-source Blender software. From a simple cube to an expanded animated or static render. It doesn't matter if you had any experience with 3D rendering or not. I want to create a safe space for learning and expanding knowledge about 3D reality. It could be further used to create a collaborative piece.

To Bring: your own laptops if you have one

Lead Contributor: Ernest Borowski, nestowski@gmail.com

Failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world.” - Jack Halberstam. For this project, we encourage people to attend all three workshops which will happen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

Workshop 2 - In this workshop, we’ll come together to explore our voices in improvised group singing, using the some of the words generated in Part 1. Through guided vocal experimentation, we’ll hope to feel the synergy of collective voices. We’ll explore the resonance of the space by moving around, experiencing the physicality of moving through moments of harmony and dissonance with our fellow singers. The session will be recorded to produce a soundscape which will be explored in a movement workshop.

Lead Contributor: Sarah Parkes & Josh Grey-Jung, saeparkes@gmail.com & j.greyjung@gmail.com

Vagina - once the Goddess of life and death. Symbol of rebirth, purification, fertility, potency and favor of fate. An object of special veneration and worship with several thousand years of tradition. Today a silent organ, surrounded by a veil of shame and prudery. Vagina and her synonyms today are treated as negative terms, often they are offensive.

During the workshop, I would like to disenchant the meaning and symbolism of the vagina. Through sinking into oneself, a sense of inner strength, life-giving strength and the beauty it carries vagina myself. It is a symbol of love and creativity that wants to awaken in the participants.

The workshops are intended for all people who feel like a woman and want to wake up the feminine element in her.

Lead Contributor: Zuzanna Czajkowska, zuzuczajka@gmail.com

At The Palace 2020 I'd like to propose a collaborative and creative project to investigate the practice of rituals in contemporary culture.

The participants' experiences and beliefs will inform the early stages of the investigation becoming the primary source material. How do we define a ritual? Which forms of ritual practices have crossed and influenced our lives? How do we participate and make sense of them? Do they serve our experience? And if so, why that is? These are the preliminary interrogatives to begin the conversation.

Concepts and ideas will be transposed into movement, sound, objects and structures, each contributing to the creation of a performative experience. The work invites each participant to go beyond familiar limits, to look inwards at what each already possesses, to listen and raise physical and imaginative awareness.

Seeking: movement artists, performers, philosophers, singers, filmmakers, music composers, architects and set & light designers.

Lead Contributor: Martina Piazza, mrtnpzz@gmail.com

"The Ancient Portal” is meant for teleporting people back to themselves through the act of creating a safe space together. Building a portal to enter & explore new perceptions of the reality. Little throwback to the times when we were all kiddos constructing forts here & there. Ambient sounds. Soft spaces & sensory experiences. All with a mission to stop, rest & reflect.

- building a fort together

- ceremony with ambient sounds, sensory experiences & intuitive movement performance

- huge sleepover with ambient sounds (all night experience) "

Seeking: someone who plays ambient music, meditation guides, lights person, installation builders

Lead Contributor: Liwia, liwiastern@gmail.com, & Aleksandra, albojanowska@gmail.com

We are PiPa and Matilda Marina. We create in the field of broadly understood visual and performing arts. Our interests are focused on a transdisciplinary cross-media approach. We explore the nature of interconnections and the structure of the Universe, the shapes, patterns, and relationships that form it. Through the border of reality and fantasy, intellectual, emotional, and sensation perspectives. Being very inspired by science we are looking for a way, how scientifical openings, facts, and impact with art can make a new deeper understanding of life and ourselves.

We will create an immersive multisensory performance that play with the separations between arts/arts and science, artists, and audience. We are looking for a way to find out how to create one living, moving, adoptive organism united in common experience.

Seeking: We are seeking for scientists, circus artists (acrobats, hand standing, aerials), physical actors, dancers, electronic music producer, vocalists, and we would be happy about filming.

Lead Contributor: Autopoiesis, patrycjapiwosz@gmail.com

Practical exercises on the basis of scales derived from the musical culture of Ethiopia. Ranging from breathing and voice-releasing exercises to musical gestures, building up and releasing harmonic tension and sound-based storytelling. Beginner level. No prior musical education needed.

Lead Contributor: Adam Lewartowski, adam.lewartowski@gmail.com

Sacred trash, show me what I should see. Sacred trash, let me understand what I am. Sacred trash, you are the treasures of what's left behind. Is this an altar or a bunch of junk ? Can we see in our trash what we see in the stars ?"

We (Ronen and I) would like to appropriate a rather small space to create an altar for the whole festival. Using it as a horoscope/gathering spot for some small daily workshops/trials.

Lead Contributor: Franz Franz, superfrsw@gmail.com

As the world is forced to slow down, we in turn have had to look inwards. Let's share, connect and release together through the power of the breath and contagious laughter, mindfully and physically... And most importantly, to have fun!! Guaranteed big fat hugs from the inside and lots of cheeky behaviour!

Lead Contributor: Steff Golding, steffg5@gmail.om

An introduction to movement expression, body awareness and interpersonal connectivity. Through looking at Laban movement concepts, and experimenting various psychophysical exercises, we will be exploring our own patterns to spark questions within a space of reflection and openness.

By the end of this workshop you may not yet know “What in you is you”, but you will have gained new tools and a growing curiosity for the elements that constitute your being.

*The nature of this work requires physical contact. If due to Corona or other personal reasons you are not comfortable with this, I am open to accommodate you as an observer. "

Lead Contributor: Garbiel Manes

Create and set on our own decoration style for a room of the palace. A neo-clasical decor beacause it wouldn't be a barroc or XVIII pure style of paintings and ornamentations but inspired in. And in deed it would be done whit a lots of the traditionals ways and skills. The idea is to dising a brand new decor for the ceiling of one of the rooms of the palace

Lead Contributor: theoriva1993@gmail.com, Rivarola Théo

I will be inviting residents to join me in The Palace Virtual Gallery to produce their own 3D sculpture using Tilt Brush in an Oculus Quest Virtual Reality Headset. This work will also be performative as I stream the process onto a projector as residents can see the 3D model being created.

Seeking: I am seeking painters, sculptors, digital artists and anyone seeking to play in virtual reality.

Lead Contributor: Harry Silverlock, Harry@thepalacearts.com