These experiences invite you to open your senses to make sense of your inner architectures.
Thursday 18 September
11am -12am & 15pm -16pm
Salle boisée
Experiential lecture open to everybody with devynn emory (United States)
he hollered like an animal: (Chipalamu alàshi aèsës)
In English, French translation available
Registration required
As an antidote to the durational global crisis of humanity, devynn emory - practicing registered nurse, a prescribing psychiatrist, a multi licensed massage therapist, healer, seer, educator and choreographer – will guide the reattunement of our neuropathways through a guided somatic practice honouring the 7 directions of a medicine wheel. The resulting new internal topography will gradually create a map to navigate the unpredictable and chaotic.
From 18 to 21 September
10am-1pm (except Sunday 21 September 11am-1.30pm)
Studio
Participatory ritual with Idio Chichava (Mozambique)
M’POLO, Rituals of the Living Body
Open to everyone. No previous experience is required. This is an invitation to take part in a shared ritual of being together — building a temporary community through presence and movement. We encourage participants to join for the full week as much as possible, allowing time for the experience to deepen. There will be a moment of public sharing at the end.
Registration required – workshop in French and English
This invitation is inspired by 'mapiko', celebratory dances practiced by the Makonde people of the province of Cabo Delgado, which are taught as part of a traditional rite of passage from puberty to adulthood. It is a participative experience open to everyone to share being together in movement understood as ritual for togetherness. It is also an invitation to be part of this immersive experience over several days as it is about an encounter between diverse people to participate in building community by sharing this dancing ritual of coming together. The proposal is about sharing space and story-telling, a gathering that creates a community of being together through dancing rather than working on a specific dance; it is less about being spectators and more about participating as active witnesses. It is a certain way of cultivating presence and community together, a connected being with others, shared by, preserved and still practiced by many traditional cultures, pointing to the importance of shared rituals and values.
Thursday 18 September
13am -14.15pm
Plateau ouvert
Workshopping the Indigenous Peoples'
Basic Punk Law with Fangas Nayaw and River Lin (Taiwan)
and in conversation with Betty Chen (Taiwan/ Germany)
Free participation
Central to the work of Amis choreographer Fangas Nayaw is the dilemma of how to adjust to the reality of contemporary social life, and in the face of globalization, while preserving tradition. Equally at home in theatre and innovative platforms such as virtual reality, Nayaw’s museum-based participatory projects engage audiences in intimate discussions of Indigenous issues while introducing Amis songs and modes of socialising. In this participatory experience, Fangas, together with curator-dramaturge River Lin invites you to experiment with fictional Indigenous laws. A playful punk experience based on an ethos of shared responsibility, trust, and attention.
Thursday 18 September
14pm - 17pm
Studio
Workshop with Marrugeku (Australia)
Choreographies and Dramaturgies of Contested Land
Open to participants who attended the morning keynote.
Registration required.
In English. French translation available
Marrugeku’s co-artistic directors Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain will lead an afternoon participatory workshop to share cultural, choreographic and dramaturgical methodologies of dance in contested lands. Drawing on their long term shared practice and equally from their distinct roles— Dalisa as a Yawuru/Bardi movement artist who draws on her mix Indigenous/Asian cultural heritage and Rachael as an Anglo- immigrant director and dramaturg—the workshop will explore the capacities of intercultural dance and storytelling to embody social, cultural, personal and interspecies expression drawn from the participants own movements, stories, cultural backgrounds and experiences of land and belonging. The workshop will support ways to engage the relational power of human and non-human witnessing and develop choreo-political manifesto.
From 18th to 21st September
12pm-3pm
Listening Ritual with Leisa Shelton (Australia)
SCRIBE
In French, English and drawings
SCRIBE is designed as a live writing project within festival and event contexts in which artist-scribes capture the experience of members of the public to create an affective archive of their live experience. The collections take place in an intimate face-to-face with a designated ‘Scribe’ who listens, converses, and records the experience in writing / drawing / and other graphic mediums. The writing session is framed by carefully aestheticised details: a customised, hand-crafted, portable writing desk, hand-made block stamps; archival papers and the unique hand of each Scribes' writing / drawing / design. SCRIBE is a listening ritual, a listening to each individual and their unique experience of the live events they are engaging with. The documents gathered build a publicly made poetic effective and affective Archive, held by the host festival for future public engagement, research and access. Leisa Shelton and her scribes will be at the CIG during the duration of the FORUM. Be curious, let yourself be scribed!
Leisa Shelton is an independent artist, educator + curator working in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Europe and India. Her practice and pedagogies foreground collaboration and trans-disciplinarity with a focus on questions of contemporary cultural identity and processes to enable greater social valuing the role of artists within our society. She was curator for Australian artists with the Venice Performance Art Week, initiated and curated the Taiwan eXchange, dance program and has built diverse multi-lingual teams of Scribes for festivals across Australia, in the UK, Canada and Berlin.