Directing Attention / Shaping Experience
SCORES
DEFINE INTENTION
Trust that care is the foundation. Act with civic mind and community orientation. Refuse politeness. Pursue interest. Commit to the collective. Direct when needed. Follow only if you choose. Stop whenever you must. Resist and refuse with intention.
MAKING THE VESSEL
Enter an alienating experience.
Create the vessel.
HOW TO ENTER THE SPACE
Enter by walking backwards.
Enter by walking backwards with eyes closed, guided by another.
Trace borders and erase them.
Drag the vessel on the ground. Listen to the sound.
TINGLING ATOMS
Take deep breaths.
When ready, release a hum on each exhale.
Shift the tonality. Find what feels right in your body; let the vibration travel down your throat until it reaches your pelvic floor.
Listen to the surroundings and tune to what is present.
Synchronize with emerging rhythms.
Break out of them.
Return to silence.
Embrace the silence.
EXPERIENCING THROUGH THE VESSEL
Listen for voices through the vessel.
Listen to the vessel through the floor.
Speak your native tongue into the vessel.
Communicate with others through the vessel.
COLLECTIVE CARE
Gather all hands onto the vessel.
Pass the vessel from person to person. Move it across the space.
Two people must always maintain contact with the vessel; they do not move their feet.
The remaining three move to form a chain and transfer the vessel.
Then the first two release and step forward.
Continue the chain.
BREATHING BODIES
Breathe slow or fast.
Lie down. Place and balance the vessel where pain appears. Direct breath into that point.
Let the vessel’s weight set the rhythm of your breath.
Place your vessel somewhere on site. Possibly everyone places their vessel on the same spot.
FIGHTING RHYTHM
Find a comfortable position. Begin with small waves.
Let the waves grow.
If sitting or lying, rise to standing.
Continue moving in waves.
Fight rhythm. Notice where the body wants to go. Go the opposite way.
Allow another person to guide your movement. Release control.
BREAKING THE VESSEL
Break the vessel.
Open Stage / Angewandte Performance Lab
Open Pain Lab
Vessels
Roles
Ronja: Directing/Shot List, Camera 1, Post-Production, Sound
Clark: Styling, Prop Design, Camera 2, Sound
Valentin: Storyboard Sketching, Digital Archive Footage, (Post-)Production Assistant
