invitation for a synesthetic ritual
Installation, rooted in Chthulucene by Donna Haraway, Ontological Turn by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Afro-Brasilian syncretic rituals

LIVIA MARQUES
Installation, anytime

Starting with a slide presentation, this talk was created to provoke a collective discussion and reflection where questions are still open and we can share different point of view. The slide presentation is just an introduction, touching important contemporary philosophy approaches and a synthesis of the main topics.

This is a good project to join during Festivals or Forum, where people can meet up each other face to face and have a kind of idea about the artistic process one of the other, as well as in education events where this Issue makes sense with the field of studies.

Already presented ad Schmiede 2012

Definições Múltiplas new project for a dance piece and a book.

2013/2014 soon on line

VIDEO INTERVIEW

Mini research site-specific on connective branches

@ Antico Spedale del Bigallo, Florence

CUM+NECTARE Latin etymology of CONNECT

The connective branches refer to all those nodes or intersections that we daily cross in reality and virtuality, they are the paths that allow the intersections, they are those relationships with the surrounding that now we take for granted but which are not at all obvious or trivial if we consider the much broader options we have as humans to interact with the environment, be it social, architectural, urban, sound, kinesthetic, biological and so on

Friday 6 June 2014

into the sunset, leaning the last light of the day will bw presented

CUM _Tuning Soundscape

CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY Livia Marques

DANCE Livia Marques in collaboration with Matteo Ciucci

CUM first part of the word *Cumnectare means in Latin TOGETHER, for this reason it is proposed a listening formatto the sound already present in the landscape itself.

From here is processed an open investigation on the reports that this specific soundscape can result in the body and dance

duration 20 minuti

El horizonte no se mueve

The horizon does not move

O horizonte não se move

L’orizzonte non si muove

Der Horizont bewegt sich nicht

L’horitzó no es mou

What if I told you all lines are horizons?

The more you see and think about the horizon as a steady and unchangeable point of view, the more you start observing the movement of things closer to you. By paying attention to the closest objects, it is possible to feel them, hear them, smell them and taste them, rather than inferring about their perception in that distant place.

It is in these two contradictory concepts, movement and stillness, in which the viewer is invited to wonder if the horizon isn’t more than just a perspective illusion.

Dance & choreography Livia Marques

Cinematography Fátima Orendain

Editing & sound design Citlali Hernandez

Special thanks to Miguel Arjona

World premiere July 2014 at the Int. Bühnenwerkstatt / Int. Tanztheaterfestival

SHORTCUTS – EXPERIMENTAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL_Graz, Austria

January, 2015 CINEDANSE: TANZFILM HEUTE, Atelierhaus, Moe _Vienna

An international postcard such as Amsterdam, this short format video dance is an interaction between the unique urban set of the city of Amsterdam and an open research in videodance in terms of photo, colors, sound as well as through the presence of water, birds, architectures, paths from a privileged point of view, a Dutch bike.

Concept Livia Marques & Carol Breen

Dancing on the bike Livia Marques

Cinematography & Editing Carol Breen

Original Music Score Niccolò Presenti

World premiere July 2014 at the Int. Bühnenwerkstatt / Int. Tanztheaterfestival

SHORTCUTS – EXPERIMENTAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL _Graz, Austria

videodance – audiovisual installation

second research about Prism focusing on Cube, regular base prism

The Cube with its regular base is defined through six squares that we can understand as six diametrical opposite surfaces. The Prism, more in general, in his multi-sides, defines in his solid shape the idea of plurality and simultaneity of different points of view. A visual perception that wide spreads and becomes in tune in observing movement from inside and outside. Movement means as a continuos and basic element of Nature condition, and so not just but also of human beings.

prismatic 1 is composed by six different day-light-moments as subjects of investigation on a site-specific location (one of the roof of Alte Saline) that are in interaction through variation ways to build up an audiovisual installation, where the six day-light-moments are connected or not.

The anthropological and artistic methodology chosen is inside the international debate about the definition of videodance that it is possible to synthesized in the questions: does videodance witness the dance on stage? Or is it a hybrid landscape of poetic creation on the art of movement?

CONCEPT, DANCE PERFORMANCE, SOUNDSCAPE RECORDING

Livia Marques

MUSIC COMPOSITION

Anna Schauberger

VIDEO SHOOTING, VISUAL EDITING

Bernhard Hochenauer

THANKS TO:

Cinema Vertigo Team, Schmiede 2012, Michi, Vicky, Honey, Patrick, this-play

prismatic 1 premiered at Schmiede 2012 -AT

PRISMATIC#1 from Livia Marques on Vimeo.

UnderControl performative / interactive installation

Schmiede 2014 _ first prototype

UnderControl is a project about our lives under control, in every movement, breath, mood, way, intimacy and, of course, privacy. This hidden sharp violence of our personal paths throughout the traceability of each action we do through a digital world and the extremely huge amount of infos, we freely give about our-selves in our everyday life. With this starting point the idea is to recreate a small scale space inspired by the Panoptic of Foucault where the human eyes of control will become – in an opposite prospective- different shooting eyes of the cameras and the live-recording will display a stream on the screens for an active audience.

The body will still dance in this small space with this specific condition, trying to define how we feel under control. The challenge is to research and find the poetic depth in these particular conditions coming from inspiration of our age of digital control, where the“eyes”are potentially everywhere, being not really aware of what are exactly all the consequences of this present and probably more intensive future conditions.

The audience is free to look at the body, the screen and/or at different screens at any time and at the same time.

concept & dance Livia Marques
thanks a lot for all collaborative support:
concept development Michael Hackl, Andreea Sasaran. Philip Reitsperger
artistic development Antoni Rayzhekov
setting advisor Magdalena Meindl
costume design Amina Daschil
photos Jonas Bohatsch. Afroditi Psarra
video project Stefanie Weberhofer
media advice Cinema Vertigo
team, Nathan Bather
tech support Schmiede tech Team, Tinkerlab, Lilo Krebernik,
Fedža Lukovac, Bojan Kanlic, Tarik Rizuanovic
special thanks to Ela Grieshaber, Patrick Teubl, Curtis Cobane

Inspired by American lessons. 6 proposals for the next millennium by Italo Calvino, book focused on important concepts to keep in mind for new creation development such as lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, consistency, the video dance project is crossing over between site-specific spaces, editing, presence and sound.

The title Unnecessary is coming from a provocation because culture and art is never considered as necessary as useful stuff.

This is just a first research and was done during Schmiede 2013 Return playground of ideas

Livia Marques concept & dance

Anna Schauberger music composition

Stefanie Weberhofer editing

Fatima Orendain cinematography

Thanks to Tim Schenk, Cinema Vertigo, Schmiede Team, Michi, Korinna

videodance – audiovisual installation

First research about Prism focusing on Cube, regular base prism

The Cube with its regular base is defined through six squares that we can understand as three diametrical opposite projections by three cross-square basis. The Prism in its multi-surfaces, defines its solid shape the idea of plurality and simultaneity in the different points of view. A visual perception that spreads wide and becomes a tuned to observing movement from inside and outside. Movement means as a continuos and basic element of Nature condition, and also of human beings.

prismatic 0 is composed by three different subjects of investigation called Dancing feet, Before Raining and Roses. That are in interaction through variation ways to build up an audiovisual trittico where it rise up the eyes movement, the vibration movement in Nature and the dancing movement from external and internal sight using the camera attached in many parts of the body.

The anthropological and artistic methodology chosen is inside the international debate about the definition of videodance that it is possible to synthesized in the questions: does videodance witness the dance on stage ? Or could it be a hybrid landscape of poetic creation on the art of movement?

1st prize (research and experimentation) at MediaMix 2012_IT
Best Opera 2012 at MediARC 2012_IT

CONCEPT, DANCE PERFORMANCE, VIDEO SHOOTING BEFORE RAINING and ROSES
Livia Marques

VIDEO SHOOTING DANCING FEET
Amelia Prazak

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT and VISUAL EDITING
Jacopo Rachlik

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT and SOUND DESIGN
Niccolò Presenti

MUSIC by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto from VRIOON

THANKS TO:
Anna Vigeland, Edward Karkow Wilson, Alina, INteatro, Comune di Polverigi

G… (H) ATE (read as G8/eight, G.hate/hate, Gate/exit) is a dance work about the G8 of Genoa in 2001.

A study on movement which talks about issues such as fear, violence, protection, vulnerability, anger, power, endurance…. let’s reclaim for our rights!
The show is not a documentary or a representation: there are six bodies on stage, which move and act, trying to evoke emotions experienced directly by the author during the G8. An attempt to remember, after over 10 years, what happened in those days, to reflect on timeless themes: the importance of the dissent and the need to give voice to ideals, but also the violence of death, the brute force and the collective trauma due to a rupture, a fragmentation, a collapse of organicity.

by Livia Marques

with Livia Marques, Alessia Lovreglio Anna Vigeland, Amelia Prazak, Edward Karow Wilson, Irina Kondrashova multimedia and sound design Niccolò Presenti – light design Siani Bruchi

duration 40′

premiered at Teatro della Luna during INteatro Festival 2012 _IT

for who are interested, it’s possible to watch a video of the performance, writing to info@gnomix.net

Fil rouge [installation]

From the interaction between the matter and a red ball of wool, the site-specific installation Fil rouge expresses the fragility of raw material, the interaction between art and an architectural space and the possibility of making malleable and diversifiable the red wire in its form and in its meaning.

concept Livia Marques

showing at INteatro Festival 2012 Polverigi, Marche ITALY

and at Schmiede Festival 2012 Hallein/Salzburg AUSTRIA

Giardino dell’Orticultura Summer 2013 Florence, ITALY

VisiBiLe_the Darkness in the world of Lights

site-specific dance project 2007

Invisibile paths. Lighting invisibility.

Which kind of relationship elapses between the Visible and Invisible?

darkness / escuridão / buio :

which meaning has the silence of Darkness in visual field, understood as a luminous flux?

Lighting to show the borderline and the landscape of darkness

three different stage design where movers pass through and organize always in the instant a rhythmic/directing sense,

supported by gesture images in tracing and retracing some key concepts of the meaning of VisibiLe, like myths,

archetypes, proverbs, everyday-life.. regaining/discovering the blindness of movement.

an impro-structure self-directed by light designers and performers together

CONCEPT Livia Marques

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Antonia Proto Pisani, Siani Bruchi, Celine Volonterio, Livia Marques

LIGHT DESIGN Siani Bruchi, Riccardo Clementi

SET CREATION Siani Bruchi, Celine Volonterio, Alessia Mocali, Livia Marques

PHOTOS Celine Volonterio, Giulio Aspettati, Alessia Mocali

GRAPHIC DESIGN Massimiliano Mosca

VIDEO SHOOTING Celine Volonterio, Alessia Mocali, Giulio Aspettati, Massimiliano Mosca

DANCE Silvia Bennett, Francesco Barba, Chiara Cinquini, Livia Marques

during the performance are quoted passages from the books “The invisible cities” and “American lessons” by Italo Calvino

Periferiche (peripherals in English) dance project was born in 2007 as a site-specific

investigation research at LibreriaCafe LaCitè.

The idea was be in physical touch with the space borderlines and the body surface of objects in

order to develop a starting point where the dramaturgy of dance arrives informally through the

impro-structure of the piece, supported by few elements for the costumes and a lot from the music

playlist and the piano live played during the performance.

The investigation of the peripherals was present also in the video shooting, done more freely

than a common video dance recording.

CONCEPT, MUSIC and PIANO Livia Marques

VIDEO SHOOTING Celine Volonterio, Alessia Mocali

SET DESIGN Siani Bruchi

PHOTOS Francesco Baldini

DANCE Silvia Bennett, Francesco Barba, Livia Marques

CHECK_suoni immagini corpi in movimento

Check was created as a site-specific performative project

for Cave di Moleto (Alessandria, IT) in July 2004.

It was an event where sound, light and dance crossover

to be connect with the particular atmosphere of

the natural landscape of the place.

CONCEPT Livia Marques

MUSIC and DJSET Valentina Tua ValeT

LIGHT DESIGN Riccardo Clemente

DANCE Valentina Sordo, Angela di Meo, Isabella,

Marta Brunato, Stefania Trifone, Livia Marques

Cave di Moleto _Alessandria 2004

Contemporary Dance Training

Space, timing, gravity, weight, energy: these are the basic tools we will work and play during an intensive deeper study about movement and dance.
Skeletal levers and physics laws supporting the anatomical structures and functions. A technique training focusing on floor work and the engagement and tuning for the ensemble.
The Contemporary Dance Training is an intensive sharing moment where we analyse and go forward in contemporary dance research. Depending on the context and the group, the training can focus on different aspects of dancing process.
As a course with classes of 1h e 30 min or 2 hours.
Also as an intensive workshop 6 hours minimum.

Tuning Soundscape Contemporary Dance Research Lab.

The movement / sound interconnection
In the beginning was the dance-sound… James Joyce
An invitation for a Sound-Listening format, already existing in the landscape itself. By focusing upon all the nodes and intersections we daily cross in our real and virtual lives, we find natural routes and maps, allowing us to intersect and create relationships with our surroundings. These paths, often taken for granted, are not at all obvious or trivial if we consider the wide possibilities we have as human-beings to interact with the environment – social, architectural, urban, sound, kinaesthetic, biological and so on. From there, we develop an open investigation about the relationships this Soundscape can provoke in the body for dancing.

As an intensive workshop, at least 10 hours in 2 days or more.
Also as a course with classes of 2 hours or 1h and 30 min

Body in Contemporary Arts, let’s talk about it

space timing gravity weight-force energy: these are the basic tools we will

work and play during an intensive 6 hours deep study about movement and dance.

Skeletal levers and physics laws more than anatomical structures.

Two meetingS of 3 hours each where we will share a technique training focused

on floor work as well as timing/space for the ensemble tuning and

specific soundscape.

Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th 2012

time schedule 14-17 h (both days)

at Il Vivaio del Malcantone

via del Malcantone 15 _Campo di Marte, Florence IT

info www.ilvivaiodelmalcantone.com

The OPEN TRAINING series is an intensive sharing moment where we analyze and go forward in contemporary dance research. Depending on the context and the group can be focalized in different aspects of the dance process.

Already happened, during the years in Italy (Florence and Milan) and Netherlands (Amsterdam).

DanceLAb at Amsterdam OT301

Open training – Corte dei Miracoli Siena

con Livia Marques (ITA/BRA)
“All’inizio era la danza-suono” James Joyce
Cosa:
Nasce una nuova opportunità di formazione a Siena.
Un occasione mensile per incontrare professionisti delle arti performative che transitano dalla città.
Danza Contemporanea, Teatro Fisico, Analisi del movimento, Coreografia.
Per tutti i professionisti del movimento, per appassionati di danza, per educatori, formatori o curiosi che vogliono abitare il mondo in modi diversi e aprire la percezione dei propri orizzonti.
Ospite:
La prima ospite è Livia Marques, artista, antropologa, attivista italo-brasiliana. (maggiori info su gnomix.net )
Nel suo laboratorio coreografico viene proposto un formato di ascolto al suono già presente nel paesaggio stesso, focalizzando tutti quei nodi o incroci che attraversiamo quotidianamente nella realtà e nella virtualità. Percorsi e circuiti che permettono le intersezioni e relazioni con il circostante che ormai diamo per scontate ma che non sono affatto ovvie o banali se consideriamo le possibilità molto più ampie che abbiamo come esseri umani di interagire con l’ambiente, sia esso sociale, architettonico, urbano, sonoro, cinestetico, biologico e così via. Da qui viene elaborata una indagine aperta sulle relazioni che tale Soundscape può provocare nel corpo e nella danza.

progetto ideato e curato

da @50daysmovementretreat