PROGRAMME 2020
Discover, Connect and Explore our residents’ ideas
Through my work I re-create space, and am constantly drawn to bridging digital technology with physicality and movement, whether it is building high-tech augmented reality experiences on top of touch-responsive LED textile installations, or working alongside silk worms and dinoflagellates, exploring future textiles and light sculptures.”
Seeking: Computer, account on https://glitch.com/ (not mandatory) and some understanding of web programming, or interest in learning.
Lead Contributor: Jonas Jonasson, jns.johansson@gmail.com
Get the Palace Postal Service kick started by coming together to make and decorate post cards. I encourage everyone attending to also write some postcards to friends or soon to be friends at the Palace - and some one else from the group will deliver it for you. After this there will be a postal station set up where people can continue to write and send post cards during the week.
Lead Contributor: Eddie Hecht, eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
Lead Contributor: May Baker-Föhring, maybakerf@gmail.com
I would be interested to screen some camp horror film such as Giallo and I could give an introduction to the genre.
Lead Contributor: Helena Aleksandrova, alexandrovayelena@gmail.com
Sarah is a bodyworker trained in holistic massage. Come visit the wellness team where you can bliss out while you get massaged by her.
Lead Contributor: Sarah Parkes, saeparkes@gmail.com
Because it' the end of the world as we know it... and I'm feeling that Creativity, a sense of Community and Self-sufficiency are now my core values. I feel navigated According to them. my life is taking it's shape, And I feel driven to the Palace, to put work in art in Motion, and communicate, share and grow and make Change happen. In a safe wild space.
Lead Contributor: May Baker-Föhring, maybakerf@gmail.com
The workshop aims to make space for collective questioning, listening, whilst sharing realities and possibilities. The format of the workshop will be split into three sections. The first will involve a grounding exercise and then we’ll move into section two, tuning into what brings aliveness into our being - inspired by consciousness raising groups, Lilli will ask questions to the group and invite the group to answer in a way that feels comfortable to them. Part 3 will be an opportunity to build upon our foundation, accessing personal, relational and communal knowledge by creating questions collectively.
The purpose of this workshop is to re-orient our bodies towards relational knowledge learnt through lived experience, connection and swelling with pleasure. The work is informed by the work of Audre Lorde, Adrienne Maree Brown and other great black and brown people in Lilli's life. Throughout the workshop all invitations to speak are optional and participants have the freedom to do what they need and stretch or move about.
Lead Contributor: Lilli Wilkinson-Chambers, lilli_chambers@live.com
Upcycled, Collaborative - Interactive Installation for Herself to surrender, share & create. I've completely surrendered to creativity since a year now, now I'm just Maysie making things! My main income comes from making big art installations out of recycled-natural materials for music festivals, then adding off-grid lighting to them, that's why I'd love to learn more on carpentry. I organize the Green Team for events too, so lots of understanding composting and recycling. If there's a full or new moon during the event, I'd like to make a little ritual for those who bleed, or used to, to check in, hold each other, be vulnerable, share whatever bubbles up. workshop on making art out of waste, which would look like a collaborative project made out of our own waste, so materials needed are our dustbins, paints and glue, scissors, pens and whatever more craft supplies we'd get. 1.30 hour. 1 room or even better, outside.
Lead Contributor: May Baker-Föhring, maybakerf@gmail.com
This workshop will be dedicated to developing your ear, understanding of your taste and diversifying our tastes as music professionals.
Each participant will bring two songs of their choice, we will listen to the music together, and afterwards we will discuss each song's emotions and complexities as a group"
Lead Contributor: Stella Zekri, stellazekri@gmail.com
Jam Area connected to Recording Studio, DJ Studio. extending what we can do with mobile music (the Stella box and mic), and a room for DJs, live electronics, and experiemental musicians to be able to play, practice, and share. The idea of the 'experimental' or 'ambient' space wasn't there in 2018 and I think it needs some fresh cultivation.
Lead Contributor: Mat Fink, myfink@gmail.com
For the past year I have collaborated with dancers and a motion capture suit. I have used those captures to create alternative choreographies, displayed in various technically exciting ways. I'd be interested in pursuing this further and challenging the idea of movement as identity, and how we can collaborate with ourselves and others.
Seeking: Dancers, musicians.
Lead Contributor: Jonas Jonasson, jns.johansson@gmail.com
Get S**T Done. A workshop that explores how to get your ideas of of your head, onto paper and into reality and execution. Artists are great minds with wonderful ideas and I will give a workshop on how you can help manifest your creative realities into action.
Lead Contributor: Lauren Pringle, contactlaurenpringle@gmail.com
My vision it is to make the power of initiative visible, to connect projects with each other and to bring their own visions and topics into a community that is open for new contributors and all the wonderful ideas that want to go out into the world. For this I would like to collectively design a gathering space that is deeply connected to the natural surroundings and where participants share their ideas: With connection to natural surroundings i mean: a special setting to have a magical view on the summer- sunrise or sunset, if possible. A place, where one can interact with little features like grass, rocks, flowers that do not seem of much interest at the first sight; a space that creates a certain (positive) feeling and one does not directly know where this comes from; a space that appeals to all senses. There should be the possibility of creating a certain intimacy between those who come together in this place
Seeking: Carpentry and Build Artists, Installations
Lead Contributor: Angi Schug, angischug@gmx.net
Exploring the healing benefits of immersive multi-sensory room installations, which are frequently used in therapeutic treatment for patients with conditions ranging from autism to dementia. The room installations provide soothing but stimulating environments to help relax the body and mind and provide a safe space for learning and development.
Lead Contributor: Rachel Mccollum, rachelmccollum.b@gmail.com
As a group of 15-20 people we create a mystical fairytale experience for participants from the broader group
The process can be split into three phases
1) Dreaming 2) Creating 3) Showing
1) Through movement and dream journeys we create a storyline, find our characters and explore where the characters live on the premises.
2) Each character or group will go and develop and work on their place in the story - a station
This can be creating a scene, a ritual, an installation or experience.
Each station will have a mystery, riddle, task or clue that the participants will have to solve by interacting, talking, dancing or singing with the characters.
We will be working with what the space and nature have to offer and come back together as a group and show ourr process, support each other and tie all ends together
3) During the grand showcase participants go on the treasure hunt, meet characters, get taken to weird places, and as they interact, and solve the riddles the whole story unfolds and the participants get more and more involved.
In the end all participants and characters will come together in a grand finale.
Timing: ideally this a 7-9day project (but can be shortened), 1-2 days of dreaming and coming up with a story: 2x2h workshops each day of being together as a group and then free time to research, then 3-5 days of finding characters, creating the stations: 1,5h of group in the mornign and evening, rest of the day free time to research, build, join other happenings and get inspired, 1-2 days finishing touches and showcasing it. Each Treasure Hunt is about 1,5-2h long
Seeking: Writers; We need participants that want to develop the storyline and characters, create and act in a station of the treasure hunt and generally want to experiment with creating an immersive theatre experience together.
Lead Contributor: Lisa Kirchner, limariekirchner@gmail.com
The Palace Press is the hight of front line journalism uncovering the scoop of whats really going on. So what if the facts are loose if it makes a good story.
Discuss the highs, lows, rumours and nonsense of Palace 2020 and together generate some hard hitting headlines. We shall then make posters which we put up around the site spreading our real/fake news and propaganda.
Seeking: Screen Printing Artist
Lead Contributor: Eddie Hecht, eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
Award winning character comic Dan Wye (the creator of Séayoncé) takes you through his process of creating characters and personas, joke writing, the art of queer performance and composition and structure. Helping you to develop layered and fully realised comedy characters to entertain the masses.
Lead Contributor: Daniel Wye , danwye@hotmail.co.uk
The workshop’s aim is to deconstruct the visual language of 'viral videos' - the recent phenomena of popular visual culture that is a huge filler of the Internet space. In the workshop, together with participants, we will analyze the narratives, the montage and the staged aspect of it. In the workshop participants will be given the opportunity to shoot their own videos and play around with the concepts that we discuss in the first part of the workshop. The max. capacity is 10 people. Bring your mobile phone with a working camera.
Lead Contributor: Helena Aleksandrova, alexandrovayelena@gmail.com
A proposal to create a care and community space for Black and POC folx. Space to rest, breathe, nap, talk, listen, journal, eat, etc.
Seeking: Black + brown folx who would like to host a conversation/talk/meditation/ritual/service. Care/wellness practitioners able to provide healing offerings, People that would like to help cook a meal for a shared lunch/dinner.
Lead Contributor: Lilli Wilkinson-Chambers, lilli_chambers@live.com
I would like to lead a creative writing workshop on the theme of personal history that incorporates exercises from my experience in mens circles, materials needed would be pens and paper for all participants and a relatively quiet space to work in. Time: approx 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Lead Contributor: Jack Miguel, jakaboski@gmail.com
I would be very happy to lead a talk/debate/discussion on the themes of a death phobic society / our cultural relationship to death which touches on the phenomena of inherited personal and collective trauma.
Lead Contributor: Jack Miguel, jakaboski@gmail.com
After introducing the equipment we will dive into mixing two records together using beat matching & timing to create a continuous groove. The aim is to tune our ears and become more confident and skilled. Beginners and advanced DJs are all welcome to join.
Lead Contributor: Mat Fink & Mini Nik, myfink@gmail.com & pati.dances@gmail.com
Our Body Moves is a dance workshop that allows you to find your inner body. This is a free movement space for all bodies and no dance experience is required. We will explore everyBODIES alter-ego looking at performance techniques and methods along with free-form movement and an urban choreographic element. Come and move your body in all it's weird ways. Our Body Moves is an empowerment workshop that aims to rattle your senses and leave you feeling physically in-tuned. Come playGet out of your mind and in your bod bod!
*BANGING TUNES INCLUDED*
Lead Contributor: Lauren Pringle, contactlaurenpringle@gmail.com
If you could send a message to the future, what would it be? In light of all our crises, what would a deliberate and performative method of communication with futures peoples look like?
You are invited to take part in a multi-discipline collaborative performance project to produce a time capsule for future generations. The time capsule will offer a variety of mediums and disciplines because we don't know what future peoples will be able to understand; analogue, digital or written text . Will language be the same? Can we use and document performance to convey our emotions and messages?
A possible beautiful mixture of written text, recorded sound, live music, multimedia & live performance, film, stone painting and more in a performance installation that serves as a metaphorical "burying" of the time capsule. Can the time capsule go beyond metaphor? Can we find a way to encapsulate this performance experience for it to travel through the ages?
Seeking: Performers, dancers, musicians, film-makers, multi-media artists, sound artists, writers
Lead Contributor: Dani Mosimann, dmosimann7@gmail.com
In this workshop, we’ll draw on the ideas of Meg-John Barker, a British writer, activist and psychologist. We’ll explore everyone’s ideas about consent - what it means, the situations we might need to think about it and how we can treat ourselves and others consensually. We’ll also think about the ways that European colonial societies are structured around power and domination rather than mutuality and consent. How do the non-consensual foundations of this wider culture shape our interactions with other people? We’ll think here about how intersections of power affect the risk that we’ll treat others or will be treated by them non-consensually.
We’ll try out some exercises to help us navigate different social and sexual situations. As part of this, we’ll share experiences of communication that has worked well for us, as well as ways to tune into how yes, no and maybe feels in our bodies.
We’ll conclude by thinking about how we can behave accountably in situations where we have treated another person non-consensually.
The workshop will not involve explicit discussion of sexual violence. It may involve physical touch where people feel comfortable to do so.
Lead Contributor: Sarah Parkes, saeparkes@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 1 - In this workshop we will engage in group discussion and free writing exercises. Drawing inspiration from Jack Halberstam’s “The Queer Art of Failure”, we will explore our personal experiences of the success / failure dichotomy. In what ways can embracing failure help free our creative expression? How could sharing our failures collectively help to build a more compassionate society? How do public performances of failure play a role of care in community? No previous writing skills necessary.
Lead Contributor: Sarah Parkes & Josh Grey-Jung, saeparkes@gmail.com & j.greyjung@gmail.com
I will talk you through a facial massage routine that you can practice on yourself or a friend while also discussing different acupuncture points on the face and some of their uses. Good for helping to clear congested face, sinuses and headaches.
Lead Contributor: Eddie Hecht, eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
The workshop will explore our relationships to the natural world and the places that have shaped us.
Lead Contributor: Iona Glen, iona_glen@hotmail.co.uk
The workshop will explore our relationships to the natural world and the places that have shaped us.
Lead Contributor: Camilla Lutz, camilla.rae.lutz@gmail.com
I have also recently gotten into home screen printing. It is very simple and would require the following supplies: chiffon or a very thin material, glue, embroidery hoops, acrylic paint, and thing plastic, similar to a credit card. This would be a one time one to two hour workshop.
Lead Contributor: Camilla Lutz, camilla.rae.lutz@gmail.com
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 Playgroundâ€.
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