TERRITORIFIC!
A nightcamp collaborative new media art workshop on territory and territoriality
March, 2010
Venue: Videotage, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Workshop Leaders: Annette Finnsdottir(IS/DK), Rune Søchting(DK), Zeenath Hasan(IN / SE)
TERRITORIFIC! is a 3-night workshop for practicing artists and art students to explore the themes of territory and territoriality through accomplishing a series of collaborative works in the fields of new media, performance, and sound art. We are now inviting interested artists and art students based in Hong Kong to join our visiting artists from Denmark and India for a territorific artistic exploration!
Through exploration of the characteristics and ideas of territory, the artists raise questions like what the materiality of the territory is, how borders are marked and how virtual and physical spaces are crossed and mixed. The primary goal of the workshop is to create a fruitful collaborative platform for artistic investigation.
During the 3 nights of the workshop, activities for provoking thought and sharing of ideas will be carried out. The ultimate task of the camp is to produce and perform interventions in public space. The three facilitators will provide input in the form of thematic talks where different aspects of the theme listed below are introduced. These will become the background for dialogue and collaboration among participants.
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COMPONENTS
The three key components of the workshop are free improvisation, social media and public space. Possible working direction is outlined below. While these components will be at the core of the discussions, participants are encouraged to build up associations of ideas freely.
Free Improvisation
Participants could work towards a joint collaboration based on ideas adopted from free improvisation and performance, creating social interaction in a closed environment. Group discussions led by the artists will explore the theme ‘Territory and Territoriality’ in a conceptual approach.
Social Media
Participants could create interventions on web 2.0 platforms, with an investigation into how the realm of social media has changed our notion about public and private space. Are we able to define and re-define territories online? What could be the strategies to overlap online and offline territories and create artistic interventions in the public spaces of Hong Kong and the world of web 2.0?
Public Space
Participants could work with performative, sonic and visual interfaces in the public realm. The territorific space in the physical and virtual domain will be the platform for either small intimate personal actions or an elaborate dispersed set of connected actions, all as a result of a collaborative and a personal reflection.
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FACILITATORS
The workshop will be facilitated by three artists: Annette Finnsdottir, Rune Søchting and Zeenath Hasan. Annette, Rune and Zeenath are media practitioners and their works are concerned with space making, virtual imaging, making media with people. While they work with various formats including installation, net video, intervention, performance, they will share their ways of working with workshop participants and generate activities that enable hands-on research into the realization of new media approaches. Since collaboration is an emphasis in the workshop, participants are expected to be involved in developing the workshop format through the 3 vinights and bring their individual experiences and knowledge to the gathering.
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SUPPORT
Travel for workshop facilitators is supported by the Danish Art Council. Accommodation is supported by Dawei Charitable Foundation Limited and Art and Culture Outreach.