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SESSION 5: PARTICIPATION, COLLECTIVE-BODIES, COLLABORATION

1. Video Lecture

2. Embodied Exploration: Boundless Bubble.  

3. Performance Exercise: Collective Scripts

​For this exercise, we will explore how collective input can inspire creative performance and artistic expression.
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Collect Phrases:
Think of a question you’d like others to answer. It could be deeply personal, lighthearted, or reflective. Examples include: Share your chosen question with at least 10 people through email, text, WhatsApp, or any other platform, and gather their responses.

• What is something you’ve never told a loved one?
• What is your favorite place on Earth?
• What advice would you give to help someone fall asleep?
• What is your deepest desire?
• What is your favorite book or poem?

Al otro lado... (2013) Guadalupe Martinez y Emilio Rojas con Participantes. Inf'raction Venezia, Venice, Italy.

​Create from the Responses:

• Write a poem or a script weaving together the responses and share it on Instagram or another platform.
• If the answers provide advice or instructions, spend a day enacting and documenting those suggestions.
• Create a performance, audio, or video piece inspired by recurring themes or striking contrasts in the responses.
• Use the responses as prompts for a movement exploration or visual artwork.

Use the collected answers as material for a creative piece. Consider the following approaches:
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This exercise invites you to collaborate with others indirectly, allowing their voices to inform and inspire your own artistic interpretation. Be open to surprises and let the responses guide your imagination!

4. Suggested Video

Video Response:

Exploring the Collective Body: Inspired by Lygia Clark’s Collective Head
This exercise invites you to reflect on the notions of empathy, interconnection, and the collective body through performative exploration. Drawing inspiration from Clark’s work, you will create and engage with a prop or structure that fosters physical and conceptual connection with at least one or two other participants.
Steps to Explore:

1. Conceptualize Your Collective Body:
   Reflect on the idea of shared experience, mutual support, or collective identity. What does a "collective body" mean to you? How might it embody empathy, interdependence, or collaboration?
2. Create Your Connecting Tool:
   Design a simple prop or garment that physically links participants.
   • Examples: A shared garment that envelopes you, ropes that tether participants together, or a flexible structure that requires coordination to balance or move.
3. Perform the Collective Action:
   • Use the connecting tool to explore movement in space with your participants.
   • Consider how you communicate and adapt to shared constraints or opportunities.
   • Focus on embodying empathy, negotiation, and the balance between individuality and collectivity.
4. Reflect and Document:
   • Capture your process through video, photos, or sketches.
   • Write or record a short reflection: What did you learn about empathy and collaboration through this exercise? How did the shared connection shift your experience of movement, space, and others?

Optional Extensions:

• Invite additional participants and expand your collective.
• Consider performing the action in a public or site-specific space.
• Experiment with sounds or spoken word to to add an audible element.