April marked the end of the E-Motional Bodies and Cities Artistic Research, Olga, Fearghus, Arianna, Madalina and I shared our emotional mapping process as part of the E-Motional Festival in Bucharest.

In January 2013, Luke received Arts Council England’s International Artists Research funding to spend time in New York and Washington DC.  A Case Study and Interview have been published on Arts Council’s Website, follow the links below to have a read.

CASE STUDY

INTERVIEW

Smoke between our eyes

some kind of grey body cut up with orange dancing 

into a tiny jar

A new one to one performance, created for Brian Lobel’s Cruising for Art at Dressage, In Between Time Festival, Bristol 2013

All images: Pavlos Vrionides 2012

all images in this series Suzana Phialas

FRAMES AND FRAGMENTS

from Dublin – E-Motional Bodies and Cities, first verse (?) – over ether, framing from Mary Wycherley

this moment in Limmasol – second coda(?) stanza (?) E-Motional Bodies and Cities -

five reunited

two introduced

processing this city – this sea – this time – that house – those streets – those walkers – those organs – those litters

put through these bodies

affecting / mapping /material / we are the/that/those materials/immaterial

to be framed by others on an inside, elsewhere  some – other – time

five days until we fly again

five months since we were held together

two soaring punctuations

one distinct exhalation

alien, pinch, talk, here

yes

a grave

a storm moving – storm breaking -

in the wilderness

now the horizons, the handling, to hold or be/held

again

E-motional beginning in Dublin

http://www.e-motional.eu/blog/

At then end of May, I’m heading over to Dublin for the first phase of E-Motional Bodies and Cities artistic research with Mădălina Dan, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Arianna Maroulides and Olga Zitluhina

This artistic research is the flagship element of the E-MOTIONAL project. A series of 5 cross-border working periods organised alternatively in Dublin, Riga, Limassol, London and Bucharest to question the emotional body and its relation with these cities.

Two different artistic teams embark upon a co-authorship process to explore the relation between the human body, the urban and geo-political context and new technologies. Each artistic team is composed of five artists, one from each country, who may also come from different disciplines. The groups will have the chance to interact, work and benefit from the support of three local dancers or other associated artists. Each research period will also include a number of workshops and video-lectures open to local participants and artists, and will conclude with an informal presentation open to the local audience in the respective city.

The artistic researchers are accompanied by Cosmin Manolescu (choreographer & E-MOTIONAL project leader) who will act as a facilitator during these residences.

Updates as the project begins…