Exhibition

The Nine Returns to the One

13 Sep 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

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"The Nine Returns to the One" was developed as a performance / exhibition methodology inviting active engagement from visitors following a score.

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The Nine Returns to The One consists of three scores, one for each performer, and a separate score for the spectators. Guests are invited to engage with the performance exhibition by following this notation as their guide.

Tether for an Engagement is a written agreement that accompanies the performance exhibition to highlight the relationship between all parties involved: THE ART WORK (Object(s)) / PERFORMER(s)(Subject(s)), SPECTATOR(s), and THE INSTITUTION, that supports the presentation of this collective encounter.

The accompanying soundtrack, Children for or Against the Destruction of Birds, is a translation of these accumulative scores.

Emma Waltraud Howes desires to invent methods to participate in relation to boundaries – to draw attention to what is anticipated (projected) and what is present (concrete). She wants to explore the reciprocal expectations contained within these real and imaginary constraints – a cathartic and intimate negotiation between bodies and the structures that contain them. The Nine Returns to the One was developed as a performance/exhibition methodology to explore these interdependencies – techniques for the comprehension of internalized borders, methods for translation and magnification to an external site, and an oscillation between interior and exterior dynamics. Interested in notation as a method of translation to communicate the intentions of this labour, Howes is attracted to the theatrical potential of the floor plan, both for its similarities to notation, or scores as compositions representative of a stage in the development from concept and intention to depiction and effect. A stage is a place of theater and a moment in the development of a social process.

Emma Waltraud Howes works as a translator between movement and form. Her interdisciplinary works manifest as multiple reconfigurations of the body and space informed by her background in dance, performance theory, and the visual arts within the framework of a conceptual art practice. Her labour is guided by observations of gestures with a focus on the development of an expanded choreographic practice incorporating public interventions, kinaesthetic and architectural research, and an underlying drawing component in the form of graphic scores for performances that can be interpreted by orchestras, dancers, and the public.

The project is supported by the Canadian Embassy in Berlin.

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Emma Waltraud Howes

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