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claudia bosse / theatercombinat


third analogue meeting: brussels, belgium. 23 - 28 november 2023 | second analogue meeting: jakarta, indonesia. 5 – 10 december 2022 | first analogue meeting: vienna, austria. 10 – 16 june 2022 | start of monthly digital meetings: 1st april 2022 | 2021 pilot phase for new media (an INTRA-research project in collaboration with the university of applied arts) for a translocal performative academy (TPA) of space related artistic practices. part of the 4 year project ORGAN/ismus - poetics of relations (2022 – 2025).


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TPA: a four-year research program (2022-2025)

The translocal performance academy (TPA) is an international 4-year research program for mid-career artists, which understands the origin of their practices as space-related and body-centered. The program brings together artists working in various disciplines such as fine arts, performative poetry, architecture, choreography, performance art, digital arts, and research-based artistic practices. These artists are based in Europe and Southeast Asia.

The research program focuses on the connections and articulations between analogue artistic practices within geopolitical environments, their cultural and climatic contexts, and their translation into a shared digital and translocal space in constant becoming. The monthly academy also aims to examine the impact of digitally formulated translations of ongoing artistic processes back into the situated local environments in different regions between europe and southeast asia.

This research program serves as a learning and experimentation process for a group of artists who explore digital tools for applied artistic discourse and the exchange of their artistic methodologies. One of the key questions is how digital tools can create an enriching shared environment for the exchange of artistic practices from diverse cultural and geopolitical backgrounds. How do the artists reflect about spatial concepts in both analogue and digital spaces? Furthermore, how do these practices reshape perspectives and approaches to art and methodologies within their different local contexts? The program encourages reflection and experimentation in the digital space regarding the philosophical, political, and spiritual contextualization of space. TPA aims to understand the conditions and possibilities of a digital environment that will be rearranged monthly by changing artistic hosts including the artefact of the participants.

Through this digital object-oriented discourse and the creation of artefacts within changing spatial relationships, the program generates new forms of knowledge. It seeks to find methods for reflecting, exchanging experiences, and sharing perceptions beyond language in a specifically designed and shared virtual space. Overall, this research project is an ongoing exploration of the poetics of relations, inspired by eduard glissant. TPA is a long-term learning process driven by digital exchanges that annually convene in the urban environment of one of the participating artists. This provides unique insights into artistic, urban, and cultural practices, as well as their modes of appearing, organization, and materialization. The translocal performative academy is not only measured by the production of works and the presentation of results but strives for an ongoing exchange process in digital and analogue spaces. The insights are applied to build new artistic ecologies as networked life cells of our society, embedded in artistic, cultural, resistant and interrelated structures with a special focus on space and the artistic treatment of space in the different local environments. Until now, analogue assemblies have happened in vienna in cooperation with the research center of the university of applied arts in vienna, in Jakarta in cooperation with JICON festival and Jakarta Art Council. The next analogue encounter of the participating artists and experts is scheduled for the end of 2023 in Brussels in cooperation with the école de recherche graphique and project(ion)-room (ERG).

genesis, background of the TPA
the translocal performative academy TPA starting in april 2022 was conceptually initiated by claudia bosse and coordinated as well as partly produced by theatercombinat to serve the development of a sustainable artistic exchange that is to be continued until 2025. from february 2021 the pilot phase for the development of the digital environment took place, which was a collaboration between theatercombinat (under the artistic direction of claudia bosse) and the university of applied arts vienna (lucie strecker, applied performance lab and intra-research moderation and in part wolfgang fiel). the pilot phase for the creation of the digital environment was funded by the INTRA programme of the university of applied arts and was implemented by patrick gunawan hartono (until dec 2022) and florian reiche in cooperation with the participating artists.

participating artists: irwan ahmett (id), claudia bosse (d/a), juli reinartz (d), dea widya (id), yola yulfianti (id), darlane litaay (id), abi muhammad latif (id), marcella malin brunner (de), riyadhus shalihin (id)/kelvin yohanes (id), pat toh ling (sg), maya bösch (ch) + nn.

critical witnesses: of the TPA 2022-2025 are: alexander schellow (artist, filmmaker, d/b), akbar yumni (curator and researcher, id), felicitas thun-hohenstein (curator and art historian, professor academy of fine arts, vienna for critical studies, at), veronika sellner (researcher, cz), patrick gunawan hartono (composer, researcher, id)

process initiation/moderation: claudia bosse
process coordination: dagmar tröstler / theatercombinat


room for october 2023
https://hubs.mozilla.com/pFLQMdo/upbeat-mammoth-square


room for january 2024
https://hubs.mozilla.com/ez7Qhux/playful-proud-universe/


a virtual space with some of the participating artists answering
the question: What is the TPA for you?
https://hubs.mozilla.com/hwmrSqV

the atrium
https://hubs.mozilla.com/PiYRgD8/upbeat-angelic-get-together

instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tpa_performative_space/

TPA 2022-2025 takes place in cooperation with jakarta art council and dance nucleus singapore, as well as other initiatives and institutions. the TPA is part of ORGAN/ismus - poetics of relations by claudia bosse / theatercombinat, an artistic structure over 4 years in which different, interlinking staging, performance, space, research and discourse formats are created.


imagine an artist's platform for translocal peer to peer exchange!

start of regular monthly TPA digital meetings:
1st april 2022

LET’S DO IT ANALOGUE FOR A MOMENT, HONEY!
12. june 2022, 15:00 – 19: 00
presenting artistic practice of the TPA participants
15. june 2022, 18:00 – 21:00
presenting TPA digital environment and methods of exchange

MEETING ANALOG SOMEHOW STILL FEELS EVEN MORE REAL!
december 8, 2022, from 5pm
presenting artistic practice of the TPA participants
Gedung Kesenian Miss Tjitjih
december 9, 2022, from 1pm
presenting TPA digital environment and methods of exchange

taman ismail marzuki art center
dewan kesenian jakarta, gedung teater jakarta lantai 3 jalan cikini raya no 73 jakarta pusat 10330

THIRD ANALOG MEETING OF THE TPA PARTICIPANTS
23. november 2023, 17:00
presenting artistic practice of the TPA participants
ERG - école recherche geographique
25. november 2023, 19:00
how can the analog encounter the virtual?
projection room

the fourth meeting in 2024 still needs to be confirmed.


 


 

concept of the pilot phase
this work in artistic research hopes to create conditions for a critical, open-ended, digital and interdisciplinary dialogue among space-related performance artists.

1. which kinds of displays and media environments create low-threshold accessibility so as to enable a multi-faceted digital dialogue about translocal artistic practices between artists from various social, economic and geographical backgrounds? how can we extend standardized, online presence and communication by applying the lowest common technical denominator? furthermore, our questions explore the territory between the corporeal and the digital: what spatial and physical experiences can we enable by using net-based communication technologies like video conferencing, online gaming and social media? how can virtual discourses and media interactions deal with writing assignments, everyday observations and the implementation of local, space-related work processes?

2. how can we learn from each other translocally? how can we support each other translocally? what kinds of new artistic ecologies, sustainable translocal artistic organisms, can emerge from our mutual exchange?

3. to take a deeper look at the interrelated dynamics of such a digitally-extended dialogue and to enable the emergence of new phenomena, our aim is to transfer material generated by low-tech online exchanges into an immersive environment that will be suitable for the given technologies and as means of transformation. our approach is grounded in and oriented towards an understanding of interrelations between humans and non-human organisms, materials, structures and spaces. relations occur not only between people or institutions alone. hence, within the translocal performative academy we will examine exchange processes between organisms and their environments. the insights we gain will be applied to the building of new artistic ecologies as connected life cells of society, embedded in artistic, cultural, resistant and interrelated structures.

this INTRA-research project is a collaboration between theatercombinat (artistic director: claudia bosse), researchers at the university of applied arts vienna wolfgang fiel (digital arts) and lucie strecker (angewandte performance lab and intra-research moderation), as well of the film university babelsberg, konrad wolf, and sylvius lack (research fellow for game design), patrick gunawan hartono and the jakarta art council. based on a concept developed by claudia bosse for a translocal performative academy, the foundations for its media grammar are to be created in a pilot phase at the angewandte in dialogue with an international group of space-related performance artists from europe and southeast asia. starting in 2022, the resulting grammar is planned to be applied in a four-year academy initiated by theatercombinat.


 


 

funded by the concept funding of the city of vienna, the pilot phase 2021/2022 is funded by an INTRA research project at the university of applied arts and is looking for further partners.

current partners: theatercombinat, vienna, austria. university of applied arts (university for applied art), vienna, austria. jakarta arts council, indonesia. dance nucleus, singapore.


www.theatercombinat.com theatrale produktion und rezeption

theatercombinat is funded by stadt wien kultur within the framework of concept funding 2022-2025.