movA Lab Days 2019, Nantes, France

15. - 17. April 2019 at Stereolux in Nantes.

The 3rd edition of the movA Lab Days were organised by Anne Dubos from Little Heart Movement and hosted between the 15. and 17. April 2019 at « Le Labo Arts et Tech of Stereolux » by Martin Lambert & Boris Letessier.

Intention of the LabDays

We joined in the MovA network around questions, disciplinary and thematic approaches, which pose problems, not only for the definitions of terms, but also from a methodological point of view. (cf : Bertha’s contribution at the Kienberg meeting here and here.) The challenge of these LabDays was to establish "commons" of research in motion & computing, according to a common knowledge practice based on shared experiences.
NB: definition of the term ‘commons’ : "which belongs or applies to several people, to the collective. Opposed to private or individual".

We work from issues of transmission (analysis, registration, encoding, indexing, annotation, archive) of collective knowledge arising from performance situations, called tacit knowledge or embodied knowledge.

 

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Participants (in alphabetical order):

Program

Modules:

  • A. (1h) Movement training practice (moving the subtle body - through dance, sound, yoga, stories, etc…) → 1 person in charge
  • B. (1h30) Collective augmented performance - motion and computing in practice : a live case study → 2 persons in charge
  • C. (30mn) Chat - what happened : what would be your words to describe the process, your experience ? - a mind-map session → 2 persons in charge
  • D. (2h) Producing collective knowledge - a collective gesture analysis session → 1 person in charge
  • E. (1h) Discussion and notes - feedback on what happened during the day. → 2persons in charge

In detail, each module was to be carried out independently, either by a person or by a tandem, responsible for both content and preparation. The task was to organize a participatory workshop for the rest of the group, raising a fundamental question.

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Wednesday, 17. April 2019, 19h00 - PERFORMANCE IN MICRO HALL

Stereolux offered us to use the MICRO hall for a collective performance on Wednesday evening. A "conference-performance" was held, open to the public, from 7pm to 10pm.

We were invited to present your work, in the form you wish, for a duration between 10 and 15 minutes: it can be a piece, a video, live coding, a collective performance or just a short lecture that explains a specific point of your work. The end of the evening will be reserved for questions from the public.

NB: It was interesting that during the evening session, those who did not wish to go on stage organized themselves to take notes during the performance as well as the final discussion. a tandem : gatherer (of information) and a (mind)mapper is in charge of the session.

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Spaces

* 2 Multi spaces were reserved for workshop practices: One room was equipped as a dance studio - with dance floor, video projector and surround sound system The other being equipped as a conference room. https://www.stereolux.org/stereolux/location-d-espaces/location-des-labos

The Micro is a concert hall with a stage, which also allows a large format projection on a cyclorama. https://www.stereolux.org/stereolux/location-d-espaces/salle-micro