Spring 2016
In Spring 2016, Delfina Foundation launches the second stage of Performance as Process, a series of residencies and events that explores performance as a way of approaching and understanding the world, just as much as it is a medium of producing art or engaging with the public. The programme encourages experimentation through research, productions, collaborations, skill-sharing, or reflecting on the performative aspect of artistic practice, which could include live art but is not restricted to it.
The first iteration of the programme took place in winter 2015 and brought together 12 participants to broadly explore how ‘performance’ – from daily routines to public protests to religious rituals – plays an inherent role in cultural production.
In Stage 2, themes of translation through choreography and language are embedded in the practice of many of the participants. The invited artists consider how re-articulating objects, sounds, texts, movements, cultures and environments through performance can produce new subjectivities. Furthermore, this extends to the systems, methodologies and processes used to translate or transpose one thing to another.
Public Programme
Appropriating The Moment: Collecting The Performance
21/05/2016
Talk
Rhythmasspoetry
23/05/2016
With Jeremy Deller, Cecilia Bengolea and Paul Maheke
Screening
The Artist Hard at Work
26/05/2016
Performance as Process
Transpositions
07/06/2016
Open Studio
Conditions of an Ideal
03/06/2016
Performance
Chorusing
11/06/2016
Symposium
Live Creations
23/06/2016 — 26/06/2016
Exhibition
Art Night London: Cecilia Bengolea
02/07/2016
Performance
International Residents
Stephen Kwok
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Syowia Kyambi
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Cecilia Bengolea
London: 04/04/2016 — 08/07/2016
Alex Mirutziu
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Alexis Blake
London: 18/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Luisa Nobrega
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Luciana Magno
London: 30/05/2016 — 24/07/2016
UK Associates
Joe Moran
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Emma Smith
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Teresa Calonje
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
London: 04/04/2016 — 26/06/2016
Platform
Explore selected outcomes and documentation of the programme.
Joe Moran: Live Creations
Seeking to make choreographic thinking and the agency of dance artists visible
Video
Performance as Process: Emma Smith
Inventing a new form of scoring for the collective voice
Video
Transpositions: An Evening of Performances
Photos from an evening of performances by Performance as Process residents
Gallery
Delfina Presents: Stephen Kwok
Tools for a ‘decomposed cinema’
Video
Delfina Presents: Luisa Nobrega
On failures of communication and language at the brink of collapse
Video
Performance as Process: Alex Mirutziu
On transcribing a typeface into movement
Video
Performance as Process: Syowia Kyambi
Navigating questions of communal identity, the state, self-censorship
Video
In Conversation: Luísa Nóbrega
Our Performance as Process resident on language, translation and the voice
Interview
In Conversation: Alex Mirutziu
On his practice, theory and the underlying question ‘what performs?’
Interview
In Conversation: Emma Smith
On her current research and the development of her performance practice
Interview
In Conversation: Stephen Kwok
Playing with the boundaries of the everyday
Interview
