Hancock&Kelly

workshop / project 2010
My Body tries to cry...
MArch, 1- 5, 2010

My body tries to cry... is hancock & kelly live's third annual winter workshop at Schwelle7, Berlin.

In 2008, Hancock and Kelly presented I thought you'd never come..., an investigation into the other as source-material, a viral process of performance-making. In 2009, I feel your weight, and my... explored our shared responsibilities as witness and testifier to our own, and one another's, bodies. My body tries to cry... continues this dual trajectory through both self and other, revisiting and expanding ideas of material as inheritance, exchange, and testimony, as subjectivities are deconstructed, re-configured, and re-alligned.

Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly's workshop-laboratories offer a space for practice-based/body-based thinking, built around a set of questions pertinent to the duo's current investigations. This 'thinking' is made public by means of a pre-determined choreographic structure that is further developed throughout the workshop and presented at the end.

In addition to the specific questions of the workshop, sessions often include a series of physically and emotionally demanding exercises (drawn from the artists' own practices, other seminal performance practitioners, and wider areas of body-based research) that situate the body and these questions in the context of Hancock and Kelly's wider socio-artistic concerns.

Participants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to consider themselves as both 'makers' and 'performers', working within a framework designed to support and provide the space to question, risk, and expose.

Timetable

The workshop will run from Monday, March 1st to Friday March 5th, with a public presentation on the final day.

Mon March 1 16:00 - 20:00
Tue March 2 16:00 - 20:00
Wed March 3 16:00 - 20:00
Thur March 4 15:00 - 19:00
Fri March 5 17:00 - 23:00
(including public presentation, time to be confirmed)

Please note that the structure of the workshop and final presentation are shaped around the participants, and it is important that participants are able to commit to attend all sessions.

For information on registration contact
Felix Ruckert at (e): info(at)felixruckert.de or
(t): +49 (0)173 - 6118404.

Fees: 150 EUR / s7 - members 100 EUR

Biographies

hancock & kelly live is the collaborative project of artists Richard Hancock (b. 1977, UK) and Traci Kelly (b. 1961, UK).

Since 2001, they have collaborated on a body of work, questioning and provoking the gaps between subjects, between lives, between one another, between 'you' and 'I'.

Through an Internationally acclaimed body of work spanning performance, dance, video, photography, installation, and text, they have continually asked questions of where the limits of the body may be drawn, and separated from the knowledge and questions with which they are enmeshed. Further, their provocations ask where and how we can begin to define what is 'you' and where am 'I'.

The resulting works have been a series of intimate and queer events, both moving and spectacular. hancock & kelly live has performed and exhibited at venues and events including the National Review of Live Art, UK (2005, 2007, 2009), the SPILL Festival of Performance, UK (2007), Performance Space, Australia (2007), Interregnum, Denmark (2008), and the Museu de Évora, Portugal (2009).

Richard Hancock is an artist/choreographer currently based in Berlin. His research interests include questions of racial 'whiteness', masculinity, and non-reproductive sexualities.

Richard Hancock holds a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from the Nottingham Trent University, and a Masters degree with distinction in Critical Theory: The Body & Representation from the University of Reading.

He is currently Associate at New Work Network, London, where he is developing models for artist-led learning programmes. His ongoing collaboration, RESIDENT ALIENS (with the artist Liz Rosenfeld), is an exploration of queer family, lineage, and portraiture. He is also currently co-developing, with BAY Positives Director Curtis Moore, a programme of workshops around the body for young people living with HIV/AIDS.

Traci Kelly’s practice slips and knots between performance, visual and textual languages. Her poetic and visual imagery opens up a space for doubt and questions the status of the body. Frequently her work implicates the audience in gestures of intimacy and solicited expressions of sincerity.

Together with Richard Hancock, Kelly approaches collaboration as a plastic material that may take multiple forms. Currently she is exploring collaboration as a solo and viral process, resulting in encounters that are queer and inviting.

Traci Kelly holds a first class honours degree in Fine Art from The Nottingham Trent University, and a Masters degree, also in Fine Art, from The University of Central England (now Birmingham City University). In addition she has completed doctoral research at The University of Reading with a project that utilised intersubjectivity and collaboration as a methodology for live art practice.

Links

hancock & kelly live website:
www.hancockandkellylive.com

hancock & kelly live on facebook:
www.facebook.com/pages/hancock-kelly-live/215498439659

Footage from the 2009 workshop presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8Cylg3lus

Pics from the 2008 presentation
click here..

Pictures on this site::

hancockandkelly.jpg - Heidrun Löhr
iconographia.jpg - Franc Chamberlain
inseason1.jpg - Richard Hancock
inseason2.jpg - Richard Hancock
openwound1.jpg - Heidrun Löhr
openwound2.jpg - Heidrun Löhr
posturesatom.jpg - Lisa Urwin
wayofallflesh.jpg - Deborah Whitmore

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