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

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

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

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

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

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