In thinking through what I may be offering at the PSpace residency, I made a rough sketch of the elements to consider in designing the aesthetic experience. Contextual activity, tasks, trajectory Constraints, strategies Attention – internal/external, diffuse/directed Action – imagination/physical Roles – performer, witness, aide, … Read More →
Author Archives: Lian Loke
Situated Body 2
This morning we had an unusually early start, rising with the sun and heading over to Bundanon to resume Jonathan’s workshop. I started off where I had left, walking up the Amphitheatre Track. I passed by the tall spindly tree but it didn’t call to … Read More →
The plasticity of the brain and learning
PALM TO PALM A seemingly simple exercise in pairs. Sitting opposite each other within arm’s reach, pressing palm to palm. Maggie’s only instruction. We wait … A listening … tremulous vibrations in Jonathan’s fingertips … tiny shifts back and forth. Maggie talked about the language … Read More →
Machine sense and felt sense … playtime!
An opportunity to play with a range of sensor-based prototypes/tools and costume. The session was structured so that each person had 3 minutes to try out a prototype, followed by a quick group discussion. Somaya offered “Idio”, an apparatus that generates sound in response to … Read More →
Distinct Body 2
Working with clay – what a treat! I absolutely loved it. I felt like Auguste Rodin, shaping human form out of a lump of clay, so malleable, yet requiring physical force, an engagement of the whole body not just the hands. Imagining the flesh, the … Read More →
experiential anatomy and the situated body
EXPERIENTIAL ANATOMY In the act of drawing my own body outline and skeleton, i found myself ocscillating between drawing from the felt sense (how my imagination traced the edge of the body, the weightiness of bones and flesh pressing into the floor) and drawing on … Read More →
The hipDisk wearable interface
Danielle Wilde has devised this simple, yet fabulous wearable interface, the hipDisk. I met Danielle at OZCHI2008 in Cairns. The hipDisk consists of two disks that you wear above and below your waist. An array of soft switches is positioned on the perimeter of each … Read More →
Pulling out 3 things
One thing that resonates from this first workshop is the refreshing openness and intimacy of everyone here. An openness to listen, a willingness to share. The focus on the body perhaps supports this. One thing that I desire is to make things in the weave … Read More →
experiencing and learning to analyse movement
It is such a pleasure to be working from the body again. Paying attention to it, slowing down, extending my range of movement, moving into my potential, rejuvenating. How to incorporate such bodily practices into my everyday work, as well as everyday life? The Feldenkrais … Read More →
Work in progress… Surging Verticality
Coming together for the third time, now at Performance Space, we have begun to develop small experiments around the conversation between somatic bodywork and the crafting of body-centred technologically mediated or augmented audience experiences. Seeking moments of transformation of the ordinary. It’s not as easy as … Read More →