5 IN A WORK NOT CITED " THE SPECTACLE"

The Spectacle from Lucia Lawaai on Vimeo.

"The Spectacle"

Festival a/d werf 27./28./29.5 2010

Utrecht

VIEWMASTER / EPISODE 1 : Inari Salmivaara

VIEWMASTER / 2007 - 2010
Heike Langsdorf, Laurent Liefooghe & Ula Sickle

The Series:
After touring since 2007 with a performance & installation for which they developed the illusion-
machine “Viewmaster”, Heike Langsdorf, Laurent Liefooghe and Ula Sickle now offer a chance
for other artists to explore the possibilities of this ‘magic‘ tool. “The Series” invites artists from
different disciplines to use the Viewmaster to produce a new work. Works emerging can range
from cinematic, performative, visual and even auditive attempts to make use of the tool. Each
time the Viewmaster moves to another residency location, a new work is added to the series
by a guest artist.

The first installment will be co-produced by Huis a/d Werf in Utrecht, where Finnish choreographer
Inari Salmivaara will explore the box during a two-week residency in February 2010. The workshop
and residency will be accompanied by a seminar for the PHD students of the Media and
Performance department of the University of Utrecht on the topic of ‘Liveness’.

February 2010
HUIS A/D WERF

Presentation 26th Feb. 2010
20h30


Some pictures and a video from the research:

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“First I would like to say that I really would have liked to be here tonight, already because it is my father's birthday and the theme of this performance is important for me. Anyhow I am not able to come ,and therefore I write this letter.” (excerpt of the letter)

“LETTER PIECE” vol. Paris is a mini- triptych about distance.
The performance doesn't tell stories about distance but accepts distance as its condition and seeks to create a positive experience of distance, from distance.

“LETTER PIECE” vol.Paris is the first part of a series “this time , any place” which presents artistic registrations emerging from notions of hope and constructive optimism.

Concept/letter/video Inari Salmivaara
performer/reader (28/11/2009) Anna Torkkel

“Letter piece” Vol.Paris ( kirje)

“Ihan ensiksi haluan sanoa etta olisin niin mielellani ollut taalla tanaan, jo senkin takia etta isani tayttaa tanaan vuosia, ja sen takia etta teema jota haluan tassa esityksessa kasitella on tarkea itselleni. En kuitenkaan paase tulemaan, ja siksi tama kirje.”

“Letter piece” Vol.Paris ( kirje) on mini triptyykki etaisyydesta ja valimatkasta.
Teos ei rakentele pilvilinnoja tai romantisoi etaisyytta vaan katsoo tilannetta sen
mahdollisuuksien kannalta ja rakentaa esityksen joka perustuu poissaoloon ja valimatkaan.

“Letter piece” Vol.Paris ( kirje) on ensimmainen osa teossarjaa This time, any place, joka tutkii, keraa ja arkistoi toivon esiintymista maailmassa.


Konsepti: Inari Salmivaara
video: Inari Salmivaara
esiintyja: Anna Torkkel

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I believe that to continue living in these current times we need a spark of hope , utopian thinking and constructive actions to create -Something that makes sense and has the prospect of development and which allows us to perceive its reason(s), -Something that without exploiting or ignoring the inequality in the current world manages to evoke laughter and perhaps even manifest new models for thinking and action -Something which still induces, preserves and gives value for individual experiences and desires.- Something which springs from simplicity and the immanent conditions of the situation/the moment.




5 IN A WORK NOT CITED
“the spectacle”
by Inari Salmivaara


The Spectacle is the fifth and last part of the performance series “5 IN A WORK NOT CITED” by Inari Salmivaara. It is the story of an expedition that set out to look for the perfect performance.
The performance zooms into captured moments, dialogues, movements, images and sounds from its own process and places them into a theatrical constellation. The participants retrace and share their experiences of the journey. The performance is a poetic documentation of their search.





“The Spectacle” is created in collaboration with Viljam Nybacka , Pedro Ines, and Lucia Lawaai
and it is produced by DansWerkPlaats Amsterdam

more info about the series:
www.inarisalmivaara.blogspot.com

At times all I need is a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of lights in the fog, the dialogue of two passerby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them. If I tell you that the city that my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed. You must not believe the search , for it can stop. (Italo Calvino, Invisble cities)

2.3.and 4. of Oct
In Amsterdam

5 IN A WORK NOT CITED/PERFORMANCE SERIES

By Inari Salmivaara
2007-2009
Production Danswerkplaats Amsterdam

Utopia –an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
(The Oxford Dictionary of English)


“5 IN A WORK NOT CITED” is a five-part project which attempts to describe and execute a utopia for a performance. Utopia in this project is considered as a complete (thought-) construction in which separate mechanisms function and exist independently whilst supporting the structure and its meaning ( a performance and its theme).
Each part of the series concentrates on a different aspect of a performance. The first part on overall structure, the second part on ambience, the third part on content and emotion and the fourth part on visuality and the suspension of disbelief. The fifth and last part of the project will be, as well as an independent work, a symbiosis of all the systems and mechanisms developed during the previous parts of the project, intending to create an encyclopedic view on this project.


The project is a manifesto for simplicity and capacity for what exists. The intention is to find and reveal the limits of thinking and to execute the development of a single thought.


Anything a human being does or thinks cannot be indifferent for human beings