Hypermap is a lab for the remembering, combining and forgetting of (embodied) knowledge. Camillo’s “Theatre of Memory” transforms ‘scholars into spectators’, so argues Camillo in L’idea del Teatro. He imagined a theatre in its ‘original sense’ – as a place in which a spectacle unfolds. This aspect of Camillo’s idea inspired BIT and Danslab to create an interactive installation concerning memory and knowledge: Hypermap. Hypermap is an installation of the multiple that functions as an ‘external representation’ of a shared memory of knowledge – the one of that specific moment; a memory that can be perceived and which feeds off the input of the visitors who themselves become participants. Hypermap will be presented during the Performance Studies International Conference #17: Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience in Utrecht. For more information please visit www.psi17.org.
Ola Maciejewska’s performance unforgettable existents serves as point of departure for the first version of Hypermap. In her performance Maciejewska plays with the boundaries between object and subject, the visible and invisible, and the private and public sphere. The tent serves as a hiding place for the body, and becomes a shape shifting body in itself at the same time. BIT and Danslab would like to research the possibilities of the tent as mobile space and as a space for reflection and interaction, as a medium for sharing and remembering knowledge, as an emerging hypermind. Hypermap will be presented as a mobile installation on several locations during the symposium. The symposium is the campsite: the tents and participants the nodes in the network, the flowing knowledge the lines in between.
The idea for Hypermap came from artistic practice, in which knowledge is combined, connected and shared all the time. Knowledge is not something you own, it exists in between as the sum of different perspectives. We would like to invite the participants to join this network of knowledge, to share their thoughts and ideas. The input of the participants will change the quality of the performance unforgettable existents and challenges our ideas of a hypermap of memory and knowledge. This exchange will be documented and archived in various ways and the archive will be accessible during the symposium.
By: Diane Elshout, Bruno Listopad, Giulia Mureddu, Ola Maciejewska, Jochem Naafs, Jette Schneider. Thanks to our fellow BIT dramaturges and Danslab choreographers.
Danslab is a research initiative for artistic development and exchange in contemporary choreography and dance. It’s the artists that create a program of researches, exchange activities and presentations. The program links individual researches to the field and explores broader artistic topics concerning the development of contemporary dance. It also develops an open source for artistic knowledge by documenting, archiving and sharing processes and insights. Danslab creates an arena where transparent communication, reflection, mutual support and new models of collaboration are encouraged. www.danslab.nl
BIT, an initiative of dance dramaturges, researches, discusses and questions aspects of dance dramaturgy in order to deepen its practice. Although dance dramaturges usually don’t work together with other dramaturges, we created a place with BIT to gather and share our experiences. We meet to exchange, to develop and to deepen the craft of dance dramaturgy. www.bit-dansdramaturgie.nl