"From an image to an action" (Day Two @The Living Room)
Workshop - Putting permanence to an extreme moment
By Helge Meyer (Germany)

In this practice based 3 hours workshop concept, the participants will be given the possibility to develop a deep insight into different views of performance art. The participants will take part in different exercises that deal with main issues in performance art like the space-body-relation, the meaning and function of time and the concept of the “other”. Main issues are to work with space as a given frame for the process and the boundaries of the work. Working in a special “performance time” that is different to “normal time”. Examining ones own speed in how to produce images, how to set up a process, how to present a personal, authentic dynamic.

Helge Meyer is a writer, educator, performer and director. He has published numeral writings in journals and books. As an educator, He has recently conducted workshops with Jamie McMurry (USA), 7./8.04.2006, Satu Kali - First International Performance Art Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and also another workshop: “body, image and the other“, 25./26.03.2006, with Jamie McMurry (USA) and Alexander Del Re (Chile), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany. As a performer, he recently performed “Taschlich 2”, 11.04.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Future of Imagination 3, Singapore, “Meeting“, 07.04.2006, with Boris Nieslony, Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, “Dissection”, 24.03.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany and “Hand to Hand in Valencia”, 25.02.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), 4th International Performance Encounter at the IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

 

OPEN REHEARSALS
10 November 2006 – (Session 1) 2.30am to 3.30pm ; (Session 2) 4.30pm to 5.30pm
11 November 2006 – (Session 3) 10.30am to 11.30am ;  (Session 4) 4.30pm to 5.30pm

We will be opening rehearsals for the public to have a view on how artists from different countries carry out their rehearsals. Members of the public are allowed to sit in the rehearsals for up to an hour each session and have a feel for themselves the things that go behind the stage. Admission is free of charge (limited to first 30 participants per session).