From turbulence at turbulence.org Fri Jan 7 00:25:31 2011 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:55:31 -0500 Subject: [Announcements] New Networked Book Chapter: "Re-Locating" by Yasmine Abbas Message-ID: <58A4F974-ED07-4697-91AF-91C62CF11BBB@turbulence.org> Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) presents: "Re-Locating: Situational, Experienceable and Relational Design to Soothe the Stress of Travel" by Yasmine Abbas http://abbas.networkedbook.org ABSTRACT: Stress is an undesirable offshoot of any kind of travel, forced or voluntary. To soothe the stress of travel, today’s mobile individuals -- neo-nomads -- engage in tactics of re:location, the practice of re-assembling a familiar and cushioned personal space, an image of home. The spaces and objects we design with mobility in mind should focus on bringing comfort to these mobile individuals. We learn however that in today’s consumerist, “liquid” and hypermobile world, linkages between PIGS -- People, Information, Goods and Spaces -- matter more than PIGS themselves. The territories of neo-nomads relate to linkages and are dynamic as a result. Read | Write This Chapter http://wiki.networkedbook.org/index.php/Re-Locating BIOGRAPHY: Yasmine Abbas is a French DPLG architect (Paris Val-de- Marne / now Paris Val-de-Seine 1997) who graduated with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Aga Khan scholarship (SMArchS 2001) and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (DDes 2006). At MIT and Harvard, Abbas researched how mobile individuals -- neo-nomads -- Re:locate, i.e. construct and reclaim a sense of belonging to places through physical, mental and digital means. Abbas has traveled extensively and worked internationally in the fields of art and architecture, consumer research and social sustainability. This led her to develop a strong understanding of applied research and design innovation. She is the founding director of "neo-nomad" a research blog/consultancy which deliver urban intelligence, people-informed research and design strategy for the built environment. Her latest publications include "Digital Technologies of the Self," a book co-edited with Fred Dervin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and the chapter "Neo-nomads and the Practice of Re:location -- Designing for Mobilities" in Tsigaridis, D. and Jungclaus J. (eds) "Tracing Mobilities -- Designing Ubiquities" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design -- Design and Technology Report Series, forthcoming publication 2010). Abbas joined Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE as a Professorial Research Fellow and the Program Director of RURL, the Responsible Urbanism Research Lab, Zayed University’s transdisciplinary research platform dedicated to advance knowledge in the field of sustainable urbanism. Jo-Anne Green Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. 917.548.7780 or 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Networked: http://networkedbook.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From logos.theword at gmail.com Sun Jan 16 01:04:29 2011 From: logos.theword at gmail.com (Logos Theatre) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:04:29 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] Fwd: Meeting - An Exploration of Body and Space In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arka Mukhopadhyay Date: 16 January 2011 00:35 Subject: Meeting - An Exploration of Body and Space To: Meeting - An Exploration of Body and Space “... it is not important whether it is called a theatre. Such a place is necessary. If a theatre did not exist, another pretext would be found” (Jerzy Grotowski) "Meeting" - An Exploration of Body and Space, at Akhra, , Madhaymgram,West Bengal, from January17-19th, 10 AM to 4 PM. (Space courtesy Alternative Living Theatre) Amidst the frenzy of development, amidst the incessant din of consumption, we have lost harmony. Once we were grounded in the Earth, but now we are rootless. The more we accumulate, the further we move from our Selves. Meeting is a shared space to come together and celebrate, to move through sound to silence, through movement to stillness, through others to the Self, through space to the Spaceless. A place to breathe, to move, to be. The session is open to all. Conducted by Arka Mukhopadhyay and Supriyo Samajdar. Arka is a performer and performance researcher who works with breath, body and space. He has performed and given workshops all over India and abroad. Supriyo Samajdar - Born in 1969 in India. Theatre director and practitioner. Studied directing at the Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata. Worked with many acclaimed theatre artists: directors Salil Sarakar, Probir Guha, Raul Iaiza, Abani Biswas, actress Rena Mirecka, dancers Ranjabati Sarkar, Tripura Kashyap and others. Founded Bibhaban, an experimental theatre company in 1996 and has been directing, writing plays and leading it since. Since 2002 he is running his research project on mukta natya (open theatre), exploring the communication between a spectator and a performer,Through this research work presently he is working on a project called- approach to silence, inspired by the works of AntoninArtuad and Jerzy Grotowski. He participated in Regula contra Regulam, research project of Teatro La Madrugada, in Brzezinka (Poland) in 2008.His research paper" in search of a new form -open theatre was" selected for a international symposium-“Language(s) of Theatre”, organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Indian Society for Theatre Research (ISTR). in january 2009, and "Grotowski - Alongside - Around - Ahead" at the University of Kent in Canterbury(England) in june 2009. contact : 9831731422/9830034978 -- Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus -- Logos Theatre In the beginning was the word No. 126, 3rd Main Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore 560046 -------------------------------------------------------- If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Let be. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From indersalim at gmail.com Sun Jan 23 12:33:31 2011 From: indersalim at gmail.com (Inder Salim) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:33:31 +0530 Subject: [Announcements] International Performance Art Event Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART EVENT VENUE : DELHI COLLEGE OF ART TIME 1.Pm TO 6 pm 28TH OF JAN. 2011 AND 10 AM TO 4 PM ON 29TH OF JAN. 2011 ALL ARE WELCOME CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Japanese Artists: 1 Seiji Shimoda, 2 Osamu Kuroda, 3 Harumi Terao, 4 Meba Kurata, 5 Bumpei Suzuki, 6 Masaki Hirose, 7 Noriko Horii, 8 Momo Takahashi, 9 Seiko Kitayama, 10 Ryosuke Tanaka, 11 Yuto Nishioka Guest Artist: 12 Moohye (Korea) 13. Silke Kastner ( Germany) 1. Inder Salim 2. Amitabh Pandey 3. Sushil Kumar 4. Kaushal Sonkar 5. Aishwarya sultania 6. Dhrupadi Wahshat 7. Mini Kumari 8. Ranjit Singh 9. Paribartana Mohantay 10 SSARL ( group on Face Book) 11.Anil Dayanand 12 Sujit Mallick 13. Showkat Katju 14. prateek. 15. Sphie and more than 15 students after workshops