RUINS (a practice)
Facilitating Artists: Liz Rosenfeld & An*dre Neely
#collaboration #queerness #performance
Image: Richard Hancock
Dates: 9 & 10 Novemer 2024
Price: £35*
Format: Live (@ BLOC, E1 4PD)
Maximum Participants: 12
Module Description:
A workshop with An*dre Neely and Liz Rosenfeld
Building on nearly seven years of artistic collaboration, An*dre Neely and Liz Rosenfeld ( AKA Riv) invite you to participate in a two-day workshop designed to delve into the somatic methods and relationship-building skills integral to their ongoing durational performance work, RUINS: Part I. This workshop is an academic and artistic exploration into the complex themes that An and Liz navigate in their practice.
RUINS: Part I addresses critical discourses surrounding queer intergenerationality, the disintegration of cruising histories, queer-on-queer invisibility, and the politics of nostalgia and erasure. By using cruising as a conceptual framework, An* and Liz investigate how queer bodies interact in uncharted temporal and spatial contexts, fostering a deep relationship of trust and intimacy.
Participants will gain insight into the nuanced strategies and practices that underpin their creative partnership, including:
Erotic Auto-Theory Writing: Engage in reflective writing exercises that combine personal narrative and theoretical inquiry.
Consent and Trust-Building Somatic Practices: Participate in group exercises designed to cultivate mutual consent and trust through embodied experiences.
Needling Practice: Learn about and engage with needling, an intimate practice with roots in BDSM where participants perforate each other's skin with surgical needles a pivotal practice in An* and Liz’s work in intimate connection.
*Please note participants are not required to engage in the action of needling, but we ask that you stay to help hold space and support the group, unless you need to leave for personal reasons. A consent form is required for participation in this action.
After- care: There will be an after- care/ check- in process on both workshop days.
This workshop not only provides a platform for sharing methodologies but also encourages critical discussions on consent, queer intimacies, and the dynamics of solitary and collective existence. An* and Liz will guide participants through their own experiences and approaches, offering a rare glimpse into their collaborative processes.
Facilitators
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Liz Rosenfeld is an nterdisciplinary artist who works with performance,moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto- theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.)
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an*dre neely (‘93) is an artist working with performance, text and spatial practice. Their work explores the materiality of labour and collaboration, intimacy and affect, authority and surveillance, and how they manifest in physical and digital space.
Their readings and performances have shown at Ballhaus OST, Sophiensaele and Berlinische Galerie (DE), Artsadmin, The Yard Theatre, Buzzcut/Tramway Glasgow (UK), ArkDes/Moderna Museet (SE), Warehouse9 (DK) and Teatro da Politécnica (PT). They’ve published with Montez Press, SomethingOther, the Live Art Development Agency, performingborders, Siobhan Davies Dance, and the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater.
an* is a recipient of a 23/24 Tanzpraxis Stipend, by the Berlin Senate for Culture, researching somatic consent in the context of intimate, sex-positive, and boundary-expansive choreographic practices. Parallel to their artistic practice, an* works as a dramaturg and facilitator and since 2023 is the Associate Producer for the MA Queer Performance, at Rose Bruford College (UK).
Requirements:
Interest in or experience with developing collaborative queer performance and writing
Frequency/Contact:
2 x 3 hour days in November 2024
This event is brought to you by Queer Extension; Artist-Led Learning Online & By Correspondence. Queer Extension is funded by its participants and Arts Council England.
About Queer Extension:
Inspired by the University Extension movement that reduced barriers to access for marginalised communities; Queer Extension has invited queer artists to develop online and correspondence modules that enable queer community to learn together. Queer Extension is curated by Justin Hunt of I'm With You and produced by Jo Alloway of We Exist.
*Pay what you can policy:
All modules hosted by Queer Extension offer a pay-what-you-can option. Please message imwithyouclapton'@gmail.com to request a reduced fee.
Accessibility Information:
Queer Extension is committed to ensuring inclusive and accessible learning.
BLOC @ Queen Mary if fully accessible in terms of mobility access including ramps and accessible toilet facilities (non-gendered).
Please email imwithyouclapton@gmail.com with any questions in regard to accessibility, including your own accessibility requirements.