ECHOES IN THE PRESENT

The role of memory in performance art

A 6 hour long workshop on the potential applications of memory in Performance Art practice.

This immersive workshop explores the notion of memory and other correlated topics as a resourceful and inspiring tools within their applications in live art.

Taking a step away from the realm of ideas as commonly understood, Ivan Lupi focuses instead on embodied manifestations of mnemonic inputs and their surrounding challenges.

Lupi will explore why the realm of ideas as compared to memories, can at times deceive us and weaken our presence in live art.

How do we approach and handle a memory in order to sublimate it into a coherent and powerful action in live art?

What are other useful notions that can work in conjunction with memory and their application in live art?

No matter the nature of individual memories, traumatic, blissful, alienating, fabricated or spontaneous, they all take shape in our very own present moment and they carry the physical power to affect it.

All the activities offered in the workshop target the participants outlook to memory, enabling new perspectives through which to experiment future live actions and projects of an individual or collaborative kind.

This 6 hour encounter is a shorter version of the artist’s 3 day long workshop which has been happening in Palma de Mallorca with the support of INperienca Teatro Lab.

The shorter encounter has been recently run at the Audio Foundation in Auckland as part of Tiny Festival and Performance Art Week Aotearoa’s ‘Electric Bodies’

Each participant must bring one item they feel strongly about, one item they deeply care for, or simply an object residing in their living spaces.