Pool CH — ECAL at Arsenic — Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Tuesday 31 October
Wednesday 1 November
Thursday 2 November
The Pool CH organised by ECAL offers two distinct workshops, one lead by Cecilia Bengolea, the other by Karl Holmqvist. Each attending student registers for one workshop only.
Both Cecilia Bengolea
and Karl Holmqvist find themselves in shifting positions, moving
alongside the art scene, towards the space of the stage, between writing
practices, language, poetry, visual forms, film, and sound. The
workshops will take place outside of
the art school, in a location
suited to host both practices, at the Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique
contemporain, the theatre located in the city centre of Lausanne.
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Cecilia Bengolea
Workshop statement
I
would like to share a practice of dance and writing. The ancestors of
Bolivia, the Argentine cumbia street dances and Jamaican dancehall as
well as automatic writing. The work on breathing, on hyperventilation as
practiced in these dances interest me particularly in order to then
write and think about other rhythms and speeds.
Biography
Born
in Buenos Aires, Cecilia Bengolea was trained in urban dances and
studied anthropological dance with Eugenio Barba before graduating in
philosophy and art history from the University of Buenos Aires. In 2001,
she moved to Paris and attended the Ex.e.r.c.e. course in Montpeller,
directed by Mathilde Monnier. In 2011, Cecilia Bengolea co-directed two
short films which were in dialogue with Levi-Strauss’s work :
Tristes Tropiques : La Beauté (tôt) vouée à se défaire with Donatien
Veisman and Cri de Pilaga with Juliette Bineau. Cecilia Bengolea
performs dance like animated sculpture, with the possibility of becoming
object and subject in the same instance. She regularly collaborates
with artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Monika Gintersdorfer
and Knut Klassen, as well as with dancehall specialists Damion BG
Dancerz et Joan Mendy. In collaboration with the British artist Jeremy
Deller, Cecilia Bengolea has also co-directed the films RythmAssPoetry
and Bombom’s Dream.
Dates and hours
Tuesday 31 October 2pm – 6pm
Wednesday 1 November 2pm – 6pm
Thursday 2 November 2pm – 6pm
Location
Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Rue de Genève 57, 1004 Lausanne
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Karl Holmqvist
Workshop statement
The
term “Deep Listening” was coined by composer Pauline Oliveros in the
1980s and has mostly been used in relation to contemporary experimental
music. I wanted to invoke it however with the sense that there’s
something beneath the surface, behind the noise or what artist James
Benning has stated as artists being people “who are able to look at the
world around them”, the notion that art making is in fact part of
processing this act of looking or “listening”. Part of “deepening” it.
Proposing a workshop at ecal about the use of language in art, as spoken
word or graphic design. As meaning carrier or a type of flashing
picture largely part of today’s urban landscape. Also about memory
function, “brain washing” techniques and repetition. How things can stay
perfectly clear in one’s memory and yet also change over time or even
right there in the moment.
Biography
Karl Holmqvist is
an artist living and working in Berlin. The main focus of his artistic
practice is on language and includes writing in the form of artist’s
books, in video animations and room size installations as well as in
spoken word performances. His writing is mostly made up of quotations
from a variety of sources rearranged in the form of a type of written
collage that deals with repetition, double meaning and memory
function. Recent one-person exhibitions include Centre d’Art
Contemporain, Geneva, Indipendenza, Rome (with Klara Liden), Kunstverein
Braunschweig (with Klara Liden), Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts
Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and
2011, and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007 and 2013.
Dates and hours
Tuesday 31 October 10am – 1pm,
Wednesday 1 November 10am – 1pm
Thursday 2 November 10am – 1pm
Location
Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Rue de Genève 57, 1004 Lausanne
Registration conditions
Students
choose one workshop. Each workshop can host up to 20 students. Students
cannot attend both workshops. Registration by mentioning the workshop
you are interested in at dimitri.depreux@ecal.ch
