AFFECT: AGORA'S PROGRAM FOR COLLABORATIVE ARTISTIC PRACTICES IN BERLIN PRESENTS:
#MODULE 1:
1- 7th of August 2018 / Module #1: PROMISCUOUS ANOMALIES: A practical philosophy to encounter and mix with alterity. Facilitated by Diego Agulló.
How much do you risk in the process of art making and researching? How much chaos can your practice deal with? How ready are you to de-territorialize your identities? Can art inject anomaly and challenge the social order? Agullo’s intensive collective investigation suggests mixing with alterity to stimulate the emergence of something new, embracing disorder, chaos, confusion, confrontation and affection as transformative aspects of exchange. In this immersive workshop, exercises, dialectal discussions and concept diagrams will be employed to confront practical problems and enter the process of value finding in heterogeneity.
DURATION: 7 DAYS OF 5 HOURS. I will facilitate a frame for a temporary collective body to engage in the process of promiscuity of practices. We will entangle our practices and confront a practical problems using the methodology of cyclic interval oscillation, a practice that seeks to keep open the relation to alterity. A set of tools will be provided under the form of exercises. Workshops are non efficacy oriented, hence, the goal is not to solve the problems but rather to explore the multiple parameters that a set of problems consist of. The workshop is a process of value finding and artistic practices are considered practical philosophy.
MATERIALS: Diagrams help clarifying how concepts function and how they are articulated. Diagrams represent visually how concepts unfold within a broader constellation of interconnected concepts. The diagrams display a playground where problems and fundamental question will emerge during the workshop. They function as a starting point before the dialectical discussions and after this they are meant to be readjusted or re-conceptualized. This diagrams are graphic tools that can be used, appropriated and reshaped by anybody.
GROUPS are open to 10 - 15 participants. Participants from all backgrounds are welcome to apply
About the facilitator
Diego Agulló (Madrid, 1980) Lives in Berlin.
Diego Agulló graduated in Philosophy in 2003 without any aspiration or interest to continue an academic career. In 2005, and without any plan, he moved to Berlin. From then on, he works internationally in the context of performing arts where he practices the promiscuity between philosophical research and artistic dilettantism. His work covers different media such as musical improvisation, video art, dance, performance, essay writing, research laboratories, the organization of participatory events as well as the creation of contexts where to continue practicing and investigating the relationship between the body and the event. He is the editor of the Circadian press where he has published Dangerous Dances (2015) in which he analyzes the intimate affinity between dance, the problem, the devil and ballistics, and Betraying Ambition (2017) where he displays a critique to the ideological implications of ambition in the art world. Diego teaches workshops and laboratories internationally and in Berlin he collaborates regularly in educational contexts such as the HZT University, Smash / Roar platform and the Agora collective. During 2016 and 2017 he carried out an interview project under the name Measuring the Temperature of Dance analyzing the ethical and political conditions of the dance context in Berlin. He is also co-founder of Pinpoint Tv, an online platform for the dissemination and investigation of contemporary dance.
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PROGRAM FRAME:
AFFECT is Agora's Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices in Berlin, currently in its fourth edition.
AFFECT 2018 is formatted as a research residency and international summer programme under the theme: “Micro-Utopias: Cartographies of Relational Art in Berlin”.
The residency outcome consist of an e-publication project, with growing contributions by residents issued by topics, shaping a self-styled cartography of subjectivities, encounters and methods within Berlin’s micro-utopias of art+life.
More Info: http://www.agoracollective.org/affect
**See Application Information Brochure here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uyKL6IlC33prquWY8aRNDRYPdffFjiWm/view?usp=sharing
ABOUT AGORA
The Agora Collective - Berlin-based Center for Contemporary Practices - was originally founded in 2011 by a multidisciplinary team as an independent project space in Berlin. Since then, Agora expands its mission to be a place to conceive and experiment with models of working together; providing stable spaces for artists to engage within collaborative and community-based practices.
In 2017, the project has been totally relocated to the former Kindl-Brauerei Area in Rollbergstrasse / Am Sudhaus, being proudly part of the "Vollgutlage", a 38.000 sq. meters area acquired by the Swiss Foundation Edith Maryon. This location in the heart of Neukölln, has been secured for initiatives devoted to social, ecological, cultural and artistic projects.
Under this unique stage, the Agora team is devoted to create cross-disciplinary models of cultural and educational production expressed in a diverse, inclusie program of artistic projects and events that deals with relevant questions of nowadays.
Since its beginning, Agora's focus has ranged from food and hosting practices, co-working spaces, event series, workshops, and programming, as well as with a strong take on visual and performing arts. Other formats running in the house: a contemporary dance platform, studios for artists, community driven activities and artistic residency opportunities.
Agora means "now", in Portuguese, language of its Brazilian founders and also coincidentally, in Greek, Agora is the place for encounters and exchange, the assembly and the market-place.