Object ScoresNew media sound artist Kirsty stansfield( www rufa.net) invited Colette Sadler to work with her on a residency based at the Southern General hospital in Glasgow working with elderly ladies living under continual care. Kirsty Stansfield wanted to investigate the relation between the interactive sound objects she had been developing and the ‘embodied knowledge‘ of the elderly people . ‘Embodied knowledge is the experience or knowledge retained and expressed through the body in actions and gestures. The sound objects prompting conversations about listening and a physical exploration of interpretative movement.‘ (ks)
Working with this ‘embodied knowledge‘ through choreography involved devising verbal and physical movement instructions. As many of the women were incredibly frail,images given through verbal instruction accessed imperceptible gesture and shifts within bodily image in relation to a dynamic mental picture of the surrounding space and objects.
The use of interactive objects within the process of the gesture research centered around an intuitive listening game , each object suggesting different movement and sound possibilities depending on its design and encoding. The game worked on the premise of how, where and by whom the objects were positioned and how this affected sound. Experimenting with different ways of gesture making supported by Laban choreology theory and thinking through the embodied knowledge of these women points to further work on the role and effect of weak movement concepts within the design processes of these objects. Weak movement cocepts in this case pertaining to the qualitative aspects of touch , slowness, sensory impairment and micro movements in relation to scale , weight , amplification, colour, surface sensitivity and spatial organization. The exhibition ‘Object Scores ‘ is a platform for presenting further reflections on this experience and opens March 2nd-April 1st in TRAMWAY project room
an event for audience
Pop musicians Belle and Sebastian asked colette Sadler to create an event as part ofTriptych music festival 06 that would offer the experience of danceperformance to a pop music audience that may have had no priorexperience or exposure to it . The event offered participants fromthe Triptych audience the opportunity to become performers for the daybased around a workshop that developed a series of group performancetasks into a public presentation. The performance was presented withinthe day long event of band acts headed by Belle and Sebastian , DJs and video screenings by Saint Etienne.
Triptych Tramway Sunday 30th April Stable 4, 3pm
Tickets 22.50
www.triptychfestival.com www.tramway.org
Photo by Jakob Jakobsson
