I saw I thought I remembered
The as if it’s just about to happen book series invites a reengagement with four workshops, facilitated within HZT Berlin’s BA Dance, Context, Choreography course between 2014–2016. Four of HZT’s teaching staff initiated a collaborative writing project with colleagues and HZT students and alumni to access what persists through the entanglement of their artistic and pedagogic practices. They returned to the pedagogic events with the question “What was and is it doing and what can we create with it now?” Initial experiences, notes and memories from the workshops were approached with a strategy of interruption. A specific set of parameters informed a structure of excerpts, footnotes, invitations and responses that produced a new order of connections based on selectivity, discontinuity and proliferation. As a reader you are encouraged to be involved with the passages of writings and drawings within these four books — to follow, skip across, take apart, expand, reassemble, rewrite and respond further. You are invited to experience what is still creating itself, as if it’s just about to happen. IMPRINT Project editor: Litó Walkey. Copy editor: Karen Christopher. Graphic design Milchhof Atelier: Andreas Töpfer, Carsten Stabenow, Printing Steinmeier, Deiningen. Publisher: HZT Berlin and UdK Berlin. 2017.
The as if it’s just about to happen book series invites a reengagement with four workshops, facilitated within HZT Berlin’s BA Dance, Context, Choreography course between 2014–2016. Four of HZT’s teaching staff initiated a collaborative writing project with colleagues and HZT students and alumni to access what persists through the entanglement of their artistic and pedagogic practices. They returned to the pedagogic events with the question “What was and is it doing and what can we create with it now?”
Initial experiences, notes and memories from the workshops were approached with a strategy of interruption. A specific set of parameters informed a structure of excerpts, footnotes, invitations and responses that produced a new order of connections based on selectivity, discontinuity and proliferation.
As a reader you are encouraged to be involved with the passages of writings and drawings within these four books — to follow, skip across, take apart, expand, reassemble, rewrite and respond further. You are invited to experience what is still creating itself, as if it’s just about to happen.
IMPRINT
Project editor: Litó Walkey. Copy editor: Karen Christopher. Graphic design Milchhof Atelier: Andreas Töpfer, Carsten Stabenow, Printing Steinmeier, Deiningen. Publisher: HZT Berlin and UdK Berlin. 2017.
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the index exists in two places<br />
26 27<br />
This is an investigation<br />
It’s dark / It’s dark, but you see some things<br />
It’s dark, but you see me / It’s dark, but you see<br />
Response<br />
from Zhenya<br />
You see a door, but I will close it<br />
You see, I am in my underwear<br />
There is this quality that I will let YOU guess<br />
Because I need YOUR guess, just like you need<br />
You have needs / And you are here<br />
Not there / And even if you are there, you are here<br />
I am not sure how to call this “here” place<br />
I would say it’s a place that can remind of childhood<br />
But childhood is not the key / It’s just a reference to . . . this<br />
And three periods in a row means something is there<br />
I invite you to look at . . . this<br />
And figure out what can be there . . .<br />
There, in those periods . . .<br />
You see, you have to be here / And I know you are<br />
But to know that you are here / You need to remember<br />
Remember me pushing upside down?<br />
Remember me thinking of gravity and looking in the mirror?<br />
Remember me switching the lights off?<br />
Remember me behind that curtain?<br />
One can be manic / and obsessive<br />
and sociopathic / and delusional<br />
and broke / and afraid<br />
and ready to move / and ready to be misunderstood<br />
and not ready at all / and here and now<br />
and very very very much in doubt / and hungry<br />
and with no air to breathe / and on Facebook<br />
and wasting time / and exploited<br />
and and and and still
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