The rehearsals of the performance ‘In my dreams I feel free’ started! We have a great, multicultural team of grown-up dancers and kids working with Corinne Eckenstein and Sanja Tropp Frühwald on the topics: dreams and the search for a shelter.
With lot’s of dancing, improvisation and sharing experiences the performance is slowly developing. The official premiere of ‘In my dreams I feel free’ will take place in the Brunnenpassage on the 15th of December 2018!
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After three intensive blocks of nine workshop days, diving into various photophraphy techniques including experimental studio work, long time exposure, street photography and performance, the group met on the fourth weekend to refect and evaluate the photographs that were created. The results are a manifold of perspectives onto the city and the protagonist´s individual commentary on the past, present and future. The focus of this workshop session laid on storytelling and WHY and HOW the work shall be shared with the public.
The photographs and narratives created will be shared in the framework of the exhibition Stages of a Flight in Brunnenpassage in November and December 2018.
Street theatre workshop with Monica Hunken – Living Theatre NY
In the third block of the photography workshops the group was joined by the performer and activist Monica Hunken from the Living Theatre Company, NYC.
In this workshop, the participants explored some basic street theater techniques for drawing focus, moving as an ensemble, creating striking images, playing with creative impulse and imaginative associations and how to communicate meaningful narrative through their bodies, working with the three basic emotions LOVE, LOSS & LONGING.
After first steps inside, the protagonists took these news skills to the street and devised mini pieces at nearby locations.
The photography served as a tool for documentation and Narration, capturing the feelings expressed through body language and interaction.
(c) Fesih Alpagu ffilmtech.com
After the impactful time in Prague and Athens, LIVING REALITIES is getting really to travel to Vienna. ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage is getting ready for the intensive photography workshop series, starting next Friday, 22.6.2018. We are looking forward to working together closely with the group for three weeks and changing perceptions through photography, in order to develop work that will expand the travelling exhibition, opening in October in Vienna.
Photography is a tool for documentation as well as artistic expression. In the framework of LIVING REALITIES. CHANGING PERCEPTIONS people with refugee experience are invited to portray their contemporary realities and perspectives of the city through the medium of photography.
In three intensive workshop modules that build upon one another, various work methods and techniques will be investigated, ranging from experimental studio work, through street photography, to performative photography. The workshop series will be lead by the photographer Simon van Hal. Monica Hunken of the legendary Living Theatre/NYC will be joining the group on July 7th to lead an impuls workshop with a focus on performative methods in public space. The results will be presented in the framework of the exhibition LIVING REALITIES. CHANGING PERCEPTIONS at Brunnenpassage starting in October.
No previous experience necessary. Since the workshop sessions are building up upon one another, regular attendance is required.
Information & registration: info@brunnenpassage.at
Workshop schedule:
Fr 22.6., Sa 23.6., So 24.6.
Fr 29.6., Sa 30.6., So 1.7.
Fr 6.7., Sa 7.7., So 8.7.
always 16-20 Uhr
Fotografieworkshops
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Die Fotografie ist ein Tool für Dokumentation und künstlerischen Ausdruck zugleich. Im Rahmen von LIVING REALITIES. CHANGING PERCEPTIONS sind Menschen mit Fluchterfahrung herzlich eingeladen anhand von Fotografie als Medium ihre Perspektive auf die Stadt und ihre aktuellen Realitäten zu porträtieren. In drei aufeinander aufbauenden Workshop-Modulen werden unterschiedliche Arbeitsmethoden erprobt, von experimenteller Studioarbeit, über street photography, bis hin zur performativen Fotografie. Die Workshopreihe wird von dem Fotografen Simon van Hal geleitet. Am 7.7. gibt Monica Hunken vom legendären Living Theater/NYC einen Impuls Workshop mit Fokus auf performativen Methoden im öffentlichen Raum. Die Resultate werden im Rahmen der Ausstellung Living Realities. Changing Perceptions ab Oktober in der Brunnenpassage präsentiert.
Vorkenntnisse sind nicht notwendig. Die einzelnen Workshoptermine sind aufeinander aufbauend, regelmäßige Teilnahme ist daher Voraussetzung.
Info & Anmeldung: info@brunnenpassage.at
In the terms of the exhibition’s “Stages of a Flight” and the whole attempt’s “Living Realities – Changing Perceptions” thematology, a round table discussion with the subject “Changing the Narrative – The Role of Journalism“, took place among specialists from the area of media, and the attending audience at the Municipal Market of Kypseli.
The coordinator of the discussion was Lida Tsene, Communications Expert and Dr on Public Relations & Communicatons. By making a self-introduction and welcoming the other three participants, she made a reference on a researches and articles related to the subject of the discussion, and that was the first step to approach the crucial and topical role that journalism is called to carry against humanist and social issues and crisis that the global society faces. After this, each journalist started introducing himself and talking about his/her experiences, thoughts, and opinions about war, refugees, journalism, media -locally and globally.
Nermin Ismail, a multimedia journalist, author and also co-creator of the photography exhibition “Stages of a Flight” , travelled to Athens in order to participate at the discussion and share her gained experiences through this journey around different European countries, while following refugees on their way for a better tomorrow. Furthermore, she expressed her disappointment about the way that most media treat refugees: “Refugees are humans. Not objects,as media present them. It is important for them to have the opportunity to tell their story, you can’t just go there and say “talk about this”. Everyone has to see them as human beings that have a personal story and the right to tell it.”
Babis Christakopoulos, Head Editor of Publication – Alternativa ΕΡΤ3, was a member of a small group of journalism that tried to make their own newspaper. It was a good effort but it finished because of lack of budget, but they didn’t want to charge and earn for and from the paper. Then “portokaliradio” came up, despite some difficulties that came out at the beggining. As he noticed “The first problem was: How to say to people how to do things? It’s easy to make a post, but there are rules that need to be followed. And when we talk about big media, then the situation is more complicated.” Eventually, they figured out things and Portokali radio has been extended as a medium. An unforgettable experience contributed to make a big personal decision: In 2015 he was in Chios island and faced the first refugees, while nobody knew refugees had arrived in Greece.That summer he was on vacations but he ended the vacations, and decided to write about it.
Angel Ballesteros, Photographer and Videojournalist at TeleSUR and part of the “Muzungutv” cooperativa, didn’t study journalism, but was photographer and story- teller. Despite the fact that he started working with a lawyer,he soon understood that Journalism is a job where people don’t share information, knowledge, or connections. While showing pictures that he captured at Iraq during war period, he mentioned that from the chaotic places he took good things, people there had faith, they were cleaning the place like their home., and underlined that “Sometimes you have to go where you don’t want to go, but it’s important because it is affecting everyone.“
Finally, why media fail is a good question – especially now with the new media’s highly raise. If technology gives us the possibility to post something and people are able to see it, is it a good period for journalists or not? Probably it makes it harder, because no one can evaluate what is written. As Lida Tsene highlighted “Technology is a new era, we have to be skeptical, it needs progress, we have to be careful on how we use it, it’s a tool- not content- it’s a platform, we can do either good or bad. We need young people from schools and universities to learn about journalism.In the beginning, they do not imagine a journalist like Nermin, Angel, Babis. They think of someone behind the TV, an owner of a media, and that perception does not face the truth.”
