Supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin, Point Éphémère & Cité des Artes Paris
With this joint project, choreographers Javiera Peón-Veiga & Gabriele Reuter aim to find a long-term collaborative working model that will support their individual artistic research and allows them to find meeting points in a collaborative performance.
The research of Javiera Peón-Veiga is articulated around the body-space and body-object, and their possible relationship. She conceives a choreographic language where body and space are tempted to be thought, felt, lived, as if they were a moving and continuously transforming landscape, as a self-generated organism.
Javiera Peón-Veiga practices the recycling as an activating principle of choreographic events. Thus, she fabricates a body that carries the condition of perishable, transitory and ephemeral.
In the course of this residency, Javiera Peón-Veiga invites German choreographer Gabriele Reuter, where the research consists of listing, cataloguing, indexing and naming spaces. The choreographers also attempt to establish a descriptive system of the physicality of spaces. With common questions “How does a body generates its own physicality regarding space?”, and “Can this body construct and actualize itself every moment?” the choreographers will cross their universes, make them speak, let themselves stimulate and influence by each other, revindicating and affirming their differences at the same time.
Avec ce projet, les chorégraphes Gabriele Reuter & Javiera Peón-Veiga pratiquent un modèle de collaboration à long terme qui support leur recherche artistique individuelle et les permettent aussi de trouver des points de rencontre dans une collaboration sur scène.
La recherche de Javiera Peón-Veiga s’articule autour du corps-espace et corps-objet, et leur relation possible. Elle conçoit un langage chorégraphique où le corps et l’espace tentent d’être pensés, sentis, vécus, à la manière d’un paysage en mouvement et en perpétuelle transformation, à la manière d’un organisme qui s’auto-génère. Javiera Peón-Veiga pratique le recyclage comme principe d’action de ses évènements chorégraphiques, elle fabrique ainsi un corps qui est conçu comme support à la condition du périssable, du transitoire et de l’éphémère.
Au cours de sa résidence, Javiera Peón-Veiga invite la chorégraphe allemande Gabriele Reuter, dont la recherche consiste à lister, cataloguer, répertorier, et nommer les espaces. La chorégraphe tente, ainsi, d’établir un système descriptif de la physicalité de l’espace. Avec comme questions communes « Comment un corps génère une physicalité propre, selon les espaces ? », et « ce corps peut-il se construire et s’actualiser à chaque moment ? » les chorégraphes vont croiser leurs univers, les faire dialoguer, se laisser stimuler et influencer l’une par l’autre, tout en revendiquant et affirmant leurs différences.
During an initial two week residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin in August 08 we dedicated time to each artist’s individual solo work and had the chance to give and receive feedback and mentoring support through each other. We also found a first joint performance core which was mainly a listing of material that we are interested to bring into our collaboration in the next meeting. Using each others solo work as a departure, we entered a dialogue on possibilities to understand and define the space we inhabit and the ones that surround us in daily life.
After completing the first research phase in Berlin we will continue working together for one week and a half in November 08 in Paris at Pointe Ephémère. A substantial and ongoing link in the collaboration of the two artists are the writings of George Perec in "The Species of Spaces and other PIeces".
Contexte
Au cours d’une première étape en résidence à Tanzfabrik à Berlin en Août 08, on a mis du temps au travail de solo à chacune autant qu’en articuler des modes des retours pour supporter et pousser le travail de l’autre. On a aussi trouvé un premier assemblage à être performé qui a été principalement une liste de matériaux qu’on est intéressé à mener dans notre prochaine rencontre en collaboration. En utilisant le solo de l’autre comme point de départ, on a introduit un dialogue sur les possibilités de comprendre et définir l’espace qu’on habite et ceux qui nous entourent dans la vie quotidienne.
Apres d’avoir fini notre première phase de recherche à Berlin, on va continuer à travailler ensemble pendent une semaine et demi en Novembre 08 au Point Ephémère à Paris. Les écrits de Georges Perec dans « Espèces d’espaces » ont étés d’une considérable importance et continuent à activer la collaboration des deux artistes.
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Javiera Peón-Veiga (France/Chile)
Solo work
´I am interested in continuing my research on the possible relationships between body and objects that are asked to be physical by activating their potential to be moved. I will deepen the question of coexistence between being active and passive simultaneously. I am concerned with crafting a language where body and space attempt to be used as a landscape in constant movement and transformation. Like a self generating organism. Taking into account the recycling logic as an activating principle of events. I am preoccupied with the concept of a body as support of a perishable condition, investigating on a body treated as passenger matter, subject to redefinition and in constant emergence.´
Collaboration Peón-Veiga & Reuter
Javiera on collaborating:
‘I would like to work on the habitation of spaces and the body states which emerge out of the adjusting relationship between body and inhabited space.
We keep and develop a personal image of the spaces we live in. Those could be different from the reality of the physical inhabited spaces. We add a psychological dimension to the physicality of a place, which is linked to our own perception. I am interested in visualizing and giving form to this mental and sensitive structure and translate it into body physicality. And to confront the representations of each other, as if they were physical maps that would allow the emergence of a shared understanding of the images of spaces. ‘
Gabriele on collaborating:
Throughout the rehearsal and research for my solo I have become very interested, almost dependant on the writings of Georges Perec, in particular his text “The Species of Spaces”. An understanding of the spaces we inhabit in our daily lives only existing in their continuous definition and description as well as the simplicity and clarity that results from simple lists in order to comprehend the world around us, has opened up a field of interest that I feel needs to explore beyond my solo work. Seeing Javieras work with objects in London in April this year brought to mind the same vision of finding simple means and clear action to approach a question of such complexity as how we perceive our own reality.
My solo “Inventory/Räumung” is full of intangibles and invisibles. It is however never vague. I feel there is a system to it - a system of describing the physicality of an “empty” space and making it visible to an audience. I would like to bring these thoughts to our collaboration, and see them echo in another artist. My wish would also be to spend some time working out of the studio in the streets of Paris and Berlin, logging, mapping information about spaces more tangible than the empty stage I work with in “Inventory/Räumung”.
Javiera Peón-Veiga was born in Chile in 1978. After completing a degree in psychology, she went on to study contemporary dance and obtained a degree at the LondonContemporaryDanceSchool (2003-2006). During that period, she started to develop choreographic work and took part in the choreographic competition Burgos-New York 2006 with her duo Continuum.
Javiera then participated in a year-long programme for young artists Essais at the CNDC (Centre National de la danse) in Angers, France, where she worked in a multidisciplinary group making research and realizing choreographic projects under the coaching of Lisa Nelson, Frans Poelstra, Robert Steijn and Loïc Touzé. Javiera was invited to present her solo /_ || at Volapük festival in Tours, France, in November 2007.
Javiera gave workshops on improvisation and movement in Chile from March until June 2008. She lives in Paris at Cité Internationale des Arts, where she obtained an artistic residency (July-December 2008) sponsored by CulturesFrance. She also takes part in the programme Transforme at the CRCC (Centre de recherche et des compositions chorégraphiques), France, where she develops a choreographic piece. She has been invited to make a piece for Edge (postgraduate company at The Place, London) in December and January 2009.
