Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul - all prints & performances


Instructional pieces for a physical relationship with architecture and space. Here, at Serralves Museum, Porto 2020

from Scores for Serralves Museum, Porto 2020


at Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels, 2020

Here for KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels 2020

Scores for Serralves Museum, Porto 2020

Instructional pieces for a physical relationship with architecture and space.
For Bodies & Buildings in various prints and performance. Here, at Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2015

version for Teatro Luiz, Lisbon in "Performance na Esfera Pública" (Orfu Negro, 2017)

Absorb your body, mind and soul into the step. (2013, Bozar, Brussels)

Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul

instructions and scored concepts to be self-performed in and around architectural landmarks

"Perform the pieces in any order, but do them all for best results.

Don't be put off by the historical references. It is all about you and your actual experience.

If you enjoy this, do it twice."

In Flann O’Brian’s novel The Third Policeman scientist-philosopher de Selby introduces the reader to the atomic theory: all things that touch exchange atoms and by this also slowly exchange characteristics, like bicycles and their riders, trees and tree huggers or visitors and buildings.
This work proposes a hand full of performance scores, adapted and added for each specific location and building.

With these instructions the visitors of the exhibition are invited to self-perform the actions.

Each performance engages both the architecture of the building and the history of performance art. The visitor enacts a multilayered composition through his or her body.

Theories about this piece by Rebecca Schneider (author and professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, USA) in her article in the following publication on page 32 https://files.cargocollective.com/c191796/Performance_in_the_Public_Sphere.pdf

This work was written, adapted and performed for the following occasions:

Brussels:

Seven Scores for the Body, Mind and Soul

for Horta Hall of Bozar

(within a collaboration with Sujata Goel)

developed in the context of Monsoon/Kobalt

December 2013
PDF of the score

Rotterdam:

Six Scores for Body & Building & Sould

for the Van Nellen Factory

invited by Tale of a Tub Gallery for Art Rotterdam

February 2015

Paris:

Six Scores for the Body, Building and Soul

for the Palais de Tokyo

invited by Palais de Tokyo, Paris

for Do Disturb! (collaboration Palais de Tokyo, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern & Berghain)

April 2015

English version
version française

Antwerp:

Some Scores for the Body, Building, Street and Soul

for the Mechelnseplein

invited by Villanella/De Studio for the Mechelsepleinfeesten, Antwerp

June 2015

Amsterdam:

Scores for the Church, the Building, the Body and the Audience

for the Oude Kerk

full documentation here

April and November (Museumnight) 2016

PDF of score sheet

Lisbon:

Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul

for the Sao Luiz Teatr

invited by Projecto P!

published in the book Performance na Esfera Pública (Orfeu Negro)

(illustrations daretoknow)

PDF (English version) PDF (Portuguese version)

April 2017

Hamburg:

Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul
for the Kraftwerk Bille
invited by the Hallo Festspiele 2017
with live performance
PDF leporello book (design: daretoknow)

London:

Scores for the Body, the Building & the Soul

for Summerset House

invited by the Now Play This festival, 2018

Darmstadt:

for the Hochschule für Musik, 2018
invited by INMM Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung

as part of a lecture performance about performativity in contemporary music

Porto:

Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul

for Serralves Museum, Porto, 2020

invited and premiered/performed at Musem as Performance Festival

PDF of the score book

Brussels: