tell us about your definition of mobility

Admin Posts : 13 Join date : 2009-05-19 Location : Europe

What does mobility mean to you?
What are the different forms of mobility to you?
How to make the concept of mobility yours?

Posts : 6 Join date : 2009-06-05

Can mobility be define only as art residencies?

Posts : 14 Join date : 2009-05-26

cooperations, coproductions, colaborations, invitations make me mostly mobile

Posts : 8 Join date : 2009-06-09 Location : Chicago-Paris

One things I have been thinking about for a while (and I know it has been partially explored by the pepinieres project "songliner") is the possibility of nomadic residencies, in other words, instead of staying in the same place for 3-4 months, travel along an itinerary for 3 months (there has been a number of projects along the Israeli-Palestinian borders for example, also in the late 80's Guillermo Gomez-Pena, here in the US, kept crossing the US-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana to reveal the differences in Foreign policies between the 2 countries, but also because he was interested in the culture that developed along the border. The border is an in-between space, it is also an infra space, because we tend to think about either sides of the border instead of the border as a space in its own.
Another thing I want to experiment with (but have never been able to find the necessary funding so far. HINT! HINT!) is simultaneity. Contemporary technology (internet, webcams, cell phones, skype, etc.) enable us to be in contact with each other live, regardless of time and space. I can talk with someone now in Japan, yet we are separated by oceans, miles and miles. And it's nighttime here, while it's broad daylight over there. Also they are technically in the future. I mean it's tomorrow for them now! yet it's the present since we can communicate in real time. So what would happen if we did simultaneous multiple actions at various points of the planet? How would this modify our understanding of time and space? Don't forget to credit me if you ever use that idea for one of your pieces? Wink

So it would be a form of collaborative residencies, but scattered over space, and it would be linked via contemporary technology (kind of like how this forum functions as a matter of fact). How can we make art out of these possibilities? In this regard the recent work of Donald Abad is relevant (I'm advertising for friends here tongue

You'd better get me a beer next time I'm in Paris Wink

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