Brooklyn College (PIMA: Performance and Interactive Media Art) & Barnard Movement Lab Collaboration
Brooklyn College PIMA and The Movement Lab present: Brooklyn College (PIMA: Performance and Interactive Media Art) & Barnard Movement Lab Collaboration
Thursday, October 17th | 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
NEW MEDIA DRAMATURGIES: Performance, media, and new-materialism
Guy de Lancey and Erwin Maas will lead a collaborative workshop on New Media Dramaturgies in Performance, inspired by the work and research writings of Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, and Edward Sheer.
During the workshop, guests and participants will be looking at the dramaturgies of stillness, of objects, of light, of sound design and spaces of narrative tension, of atmospheres.
Tech in art, when it’s not dystopian, or evangelical, can restore the centering of humanity, as subjective co-agent.
We move beyond subject /object framework into a paradigm in which we ‘distribute value more generously ‘…and become aware of the ‘agency of …vibrant materials’ – Jane Bennet
“..to generate a sense of anticipation. We wait for something to happen and realize it is already happening, but we know there is more to come and so, while we give our thoughts over to the swirling smoke, in some part of ourselves we prepare for what comes next” - Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Sheer.
“Don’t be superficial. When you have somebody’s attention, your aim is not to keep it, but to do something with that attention. Learn to love the labor of making the work above all other aspects of being an artist. Don’t make work principally for your peers. Don’t claim novelty for low-hanging fruit. And don’t give people what they already know they want.” - Elliot Woods (Kimchi and Chips)
Guy de Lancey is an award-winning director, designer, and conceptual detective across many disciplines with a background in Performance, Film, Human Movement, and Neuropsychology.
He was awarded a collaborative research grant to attend Fabrica, the Benetton cross-disciplinary Arts and Communication Research Center in Italy, under the directorship of Godfrey Reggio and Oliviero Toscani. He also studied creative and screenwriting at NYU.
He has worked extensively in the performing arts as both director and designer, and has created and designed large-scale immersive multi-media experiences from Seoul, South Korea to South Africa.
He comes to Barnard with over twenty years of experience in multiple forms of image and story-making practice, having worked in film and theater as a director, cinematographer, lighting and scenic designer, and technical design consultant. He has had his artistic work exhibited at Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York and The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Austria.
He is the Associate Director of the Movement Lab and oversees the collaborative use and project development of the Movement Lab. He is an international ensemble faculty member at the New School of the Anthropocene, based in London, as well as a Salzburg Global Fellow.
Erwin Maas is a New York based theatermaker, curator, educator and international arts advocate from the Netherlands with extensive international experience across a variety of creative and community contexts. In New York, he directed numerous productions Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway as well as Site Specific. He is especially passionate about developing new or existing works with local artists and/or communities and has done so all around the world. His directing work ranges from plays by contemporary playwrights to devised, interdisciplinary immersive projects, opera, music theater & dance with performances for all ages. Maas is the Co-Executive Director of the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) and teaches as Adjunct Professor at CUNY Brooklyn College's MFA Performance & Interactive Media Arts Program (PIMA). He is a frequently invited director, curator, facilitator, sparring partner and speaker for international cultural organizations, festivals, universities, congresses and think tanks. As former Artistic/Creative Director of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA), Director of the Fellowship Program for the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), and Director of Performing Arts for the Cultural Department of the Royal Netherlands Embassy & Consulates in the USA - Dutch Culture USA, Maas offers an extensive knowledge and network in the international cultural field with a focus on international cultural relations and policy. Erwin is a core-member of Theater Without Borders, a member of Georgetown University's Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics and of the Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Committee. He also serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, the First Nation Spiderwoman Theater, and DecadesOut - an organization at the intersection of Arts, Science & Policy. Maas was a Fulbright Scholar for his MFA in Theatre Directing at Columbia University School of the Arts in NYC. He also holds an M.A. in Drama Teaching from the Academy of Dramatic Arts Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and an M.A. in Media Arts and Production/Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Technology Sydney - Australia.
Doors open and event begins at 5:00 PM
To visit, please RSVP and contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.