[media-art-hr] [regija] You Wish: Interactive Live Video Performances (GOB SQUAD, workshop)

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Gob Squad (www.gobsquad.com) one week Workshop:
?You Wish: Interactive Live Video Performances?
funded by: kulturstiftung des bundes
20th ?26th January 2005
Stary Teatr in Krakow, Poland
application deadline: 10th december 2004
additional information: Jakub Szreder, programm at krakau.goethe.org,
phone: 0048 12 422 69 02

In parallel with their working process for their new multimedia
performance: ?You Wish?, performance collective Gob Squad will run a
week-long workshop that formally deals with collaboratively producing
live performance specifically in relation to video, text and soundtrack.
As well as sharing performance and technical skills with participants,
the workshop will also give the company the opportunity to test some of
the interactive ideas that they intend to develop for a new project with
the working title?You Wish?.

Background
Gob Squad are a group of international artists who have been working
collectively with performance, installation and media since 1994.  Based
in Berlin, Hamburg and Nottingham the company have produced live art in
urban sites such as offices, houses, shops, railway stations and hotels
as well as galleries and theatres. Characterized by a desire to place
the beautiful in the mundane, the group often sites homemade magic and
spectacle next to the banality of everyday life.   Often bringing
together a dizzying range of high and low brow sources their use of
popular culture is both celebratory and ambivalent, highlighting a
failure to fulfil the desires it fuels. Their work can be seen as a
playful examination of identity and the need for fantasy in making sense
of contemporary urban existence.
Over the last few years the company has concentrated on developing ?Live
Interactive Film? in works such as ?Room Service? and ?Super Night
Shot?.  This has often involved a type of performance that is processed
through the frame of video and involves direct contact to audience and
members of the public.
Their new work ?I Wish? is planned to premiere in Spring 2005.  The work
will create an arena type setting at the center of which will be a
purpose built ?multi-media box?.  Screened off by four large projection
screens, the audience sitting around the box will only be able to
witness what takes place inside via projections.  In an atmosphere which
fuses nightclub dance floor with boxing ring, audiences will be dared to
enter the box and fulfil artificially created wished. In a bizarre
atmosphere, the night will play out a set off wishes - a long passionate
kiss with a stranger, a silly cake fight, a confession, an intimate
dance, a wrestling match or a vision of your own funeral.

In the development of this performance Gob Squad see it as necessary to
work with people as much as possible. As part of their working process
the company has included many ?try outs? which will test run ideas on
audiences.  In addition to this the company would also see a set of
workshops based around the themes of ?I Wish? to be beneficial.  The
workshops would be designed to be of mutual benefit to both the company
as a form of research and the participants as a means of developing
skills and ideas.






The Workshop

Initially building a group dynamic by getting participants to discuss
what has inspired them in the past (art, people, videos, books or
films).  The group will then intensively work through a variety of
topics around live video performance including: building images;
developing soundtrack, text and graphics; creating/choosing a context
for your work; setting time parameters and space constraints in your
work; sharing skills, methods of research, the role of the audience in
video performance.

The working process will share Gob Squads experience of making Live Film
with the participants, allowing them to play with the tools and
vocabulary that the company employs.  The workshops will have a hands on
approach (learning by doing).   The participants will be encouraged to
think instinctively about images initially favouring visual and sensuous
aesthetics before interpretation and analysis.  The final phase of the
performance will take the theme of ?wishes and desires? to encourage
participants to produce their own set of short ?Live Film? performances.

The workshop seeks to attract a wide range of people from different
backgrounds.  The company is open to working with both artists and
non-artists, no previous experience of working in performance will be
necessary, the most important qualification will be an open mind and a
willingness to try things out.  Videomakers, DJs, VJs, musicians,
theatre/art technicians and other disciplines will be welcome, since the
company does not just wish to just share performance skills but also
video technique, use of graphics and soundtrack.  The workshop will be
for approximately 12 people - a collaborative approach to working will
be key to the methods used.


The workshop will be led by four members of the Gob Squad team,
including one video technician and one soundtrack maker.

Application Form:
Gob Squad 7 Day Workshop: Collaborative Interactive Live Film
20th ?26th January

Application deadline: 10 december 2004
Please send the application via e ? mai to:
programm at krakau.goethe.org, agata_siwiak at tlen.pl
or by post with ?Gob Squad workshops? written on the envelope to
following adresses:

Goethe ? Institut Krakau 		Stary Teatr w Krakowie
Jakub Szreder			Agata Siwiak
Rynek Główny 20			Jagiellońska 5
31 ? 008 Kraków			31 ? 010  Kraków
Please answer the following questions. Answers can be given in English
or German (the workshop will be given in English). Try to keep your
answers as concise as possible ? aim to use between 2-3 sheets of A4 paper.

The Application Deadline is 10 December. We will aim to let applicants
within  ten days from this date.  In making our decisions Gob Squad will
aim to put together a diverse group of participants from various
background (this reflects the nature of our company). Don?t worry if you
have little or no performance abilities.

NAME:
ADDRESS:
TEL:
E MAIL:

1. Tell us about yourself and what you do. You may wish to use a CV.
2. Describe the last piece of work/project that you were involved in
that you enjoyed. What role did you take?
3. Tell us briefly about a piece of art/performance you have seen which
has moved inspired or excited you?
4. What Interests you in taking part in the workshop?
5. In the final scene of a film made by a director of your choice, an
actor/actress of your choice is pointing a weapon of your choice at your
head and asking you to sing your final song. What?s the film called?
What do you sing? How do you sing it? How does your co-star react? As
the credits role how do the audience feel!? How do you feel about being
in such a cliché scene?! Do you get more work?

Best wishes
Gob Squad.




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