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Resonanzen of the abandoned

Project sketch

''concept state of 01.12.2022''

''concept state of 08.01.2023''

Describe, by listing… (meaningless)

The Participatory Performance Describe, by listing… (meaningless) is an attempt to create a modern ceremony - balancing a scientific approach with a spiritual practice. By following the guiding words of the performer, the participants are describing the space, in which the performance is taking place. Through these voiced descriptions, the participants are investigating layers of relationships between them and the space. These investigations loosen the boarder between their outside and inside realm. By doing so, a sensation of a one-ness, between them and the space, is trying to be created.

The space, that the participants are investigating, is a space that is existing in a vacuum of meaninglessness. It is a space formerly dominated by human presence and the accompanying projections of meaning and function - that has been abandoned and is now in the process of redefining itself. This transforming state, is a process without ending. It is a symbiosis between birth and death, between decay and becoming alive, between construction and destruction. This space, expressing a transforming movement, is defined by the actors in it. It is these actors, which constitute the space and that cannot be separated from it. By taking the action of stepping into the space, the participants become part of it. They become another actor in the space. They become the space. Making this process experienceable is the goal of the performance. Developing a practice to connect to the actors of a space and thereby dissolving the illusion of individuality - holds potential to rethink the current societal approach on relating the the environment.

Through the performative fusing of participator and the space, questions of meaning making, demarcation, subject/object relationships and non-human agency are being opened.

(Procedure of the Ceremony)

When arriving the participant shall be welcomed warmly. During the welcoming a microphone shall be attached to each participant. The participants shall be invited to loosely spread around a space. The performer shall walk among them, dressed in ceremonial clothes. The ceremonial words shall be read out loud. There shall be a considerable pause between every instruction. Every line of score shall be preceded by a gentle gong, that the performer shall sound to catch the participants attention. The participants shall be invited to describe the space, led by the performers instructions. The descriptions by the participators shall be spoken out loudly and recorded with the microphones. The participants shall not talk to each other, but only to them selves and the space. The script shall be followed from beging to end. There shall be no improvisation in the ceremonial score. The performance shall be finished by the act of collecting the microphones and recorded voices. During the act of removing the microphones, the performer shall express their gratitude for the participation. This collected of contemplations shall be brought together in an audio-composition, after the participators have left.

(Ceremonial Words)

Describe the space, by listing what you see.

Describe the space, by listing the functions of what you see.

Describe the space, by listing the interactions between the functions of see.

Describe yourself, by listing everything you perceive.

Describe yourself, by listing the interactions between what you perceive.

Describe yourself, by listing the meaning behind the interactions between what you perceive.

Describe the space, by listing the interactions between you and the space.

Describe the space, by listing the functions of the interactions between you and the space.

Describe the space, by listing the meaning behind the functions of the interconnections between you and the space.

Describe, by listing: Function of the space.

Describe, by listing: Boarders of the space.

Describe, by listing: Myself and the space.

Example picture of a transmorphic space found in Portugal in the environment of the Quarry Sonnet program.

old idea (contiued in Migas class)

not all who die are gone

''project documentation''

Detailed process documentation on:

https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Sustainable_Aesthetics/Cosmo_Niklas_Sch%C3%BCppel

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-In this text I would like to present the self-defined term of a ''transmorphic space''  and my approach to exploring it.
+== '''Describe, by listing… (meaningless)''' ==
-The concept of a ''transmorphic space'' is a newly developed term to describe a space, that is transforming itself in a vacuum created by the withdrawal of meaning. It builds upon the following anthropological and philosophical concepts on classifying spaces, where the experience is in some way "different" :
-''Liminal spaces.''
-The term Liminality is shaped by the ethnologist ''Victor Turner''. It describes the state of surpassing a threshold. Anthropologically it is often connected to the concept of the right of passage and the performative nature of rituals. In the physical world the term is used to describe spaces of transitioning, spaces in between and spaces that only find meaning through their destination.
-''Examples for Liminal spaces are: Airports, waiting areas, stairways, corridors, or light-houses.''
-''Heterotropia.''
+The Participatory Performance Describe, by listing… (meaningless) is an attempt to create a modern ceremony - balancing a scientific approach with a spiritual practice. By following the guiding words of the performer, the participants are describing the space, in which the performance is taking place. Through these voiced descriptions, the participants are investigating layers of relationships between them and the space. These investigations loosen the boarder between their outside and inside realm. By doing so, a sensation of a one-ness, between them and the space, is trying to be created.
-This term was used by ''Michel Foucault'', briefly in his early phase in the late 1960s. It describes places that implement their societal norms only partly or not completely. As well as places, that function by their own rules. For him these places play an important role, because they reflect the society that made them in a special way. Either because they represent, negate or subvert society.
+The space, that the participants are investigating, is a space that is existing in a vacuum of meaninglessness. It is a space formerly dominated by human presence and the accompanying projections of meaning and function - that has been abandoned and is now in the process of redefining itself. This transforming state, is a process without ending. It is a symbiosis between birth and death, between decay and becoming alive, between construction and destruction. This space, expressing a  transforming movement, is defined by the actors in it. It is these actors, which constitute the space and that cannot be separated from it. By taking the action of stepping into the space, the participants become part of it. They become another actor in the space. They become the space. Making this process experienceable is the goal of the performance.
-''Examples for Heterotropias are: ships, cemeteries, bars, brothels, prisons and gardens.''
+Developing a practice to connect to the actors of a space and thereby dissolving the illusion of individuality - holds potential to rethink the current societal approach on relating the the environment.
-''Non-place (non-lieu).''
+Through the performative fusing of participator and the space, questions of meaning making, demarcation, subject/object relationships and non-human agency are being opened.
-This neologism was coined by the French anthropologist ''Marc Augé'', to describe a place meant for a transient function. In such a space, writes Augé, a human remains anonymous and a non-space does not hold enough significants to be regarded as a “place” in the anthropological definition.
-''Michele De Certeau'' adds to this concept to factor of Dynamics. For him a non-place is characterised by the movement and restlessness. “To move means, to miss the place” he writes to describe the phenomena, that in a non-place no-one ever really arrives.
-''Examples for non-places are: train stations, motel rooms, highways and shopping centres.''
+'''(Procedure of the Ceremony)'''
+When arriving the participant shall be welcomed warmly.
+During the welcoming a microphone shall be attached to each participant.
+The participants shall be invited to loosely spread around a space.
+The performer shall walk among them, dressed in ceremonial clothes.
+The ceremonial words shall be read out loud. There shall be a considerable pause between every instruction.
+Every line of score shall be preceded by a gentle gong, that the performer shall sound to catch the participants attention.
+The participants shall be invited to describe the space, led by the performers instructions.
+The descriptions by the participators shall be spoken out loudly and recorded with the microphones.
+The participants shall not talk to each other, but only to them selves and the space.
+The script shall be followed from beging to end. There shall be no improvisation in the ceremonial score.
+The performance shall be finished by the act of collecting the microphones and recorded voices.
+During the act of removing the microphones, the performer shall express their gratitude for the participation.
+This collected of contemplations shall be brought together in an audio-composition, after the participators have left.
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+'''(Ceremonial Words)'''
-'''Concept'''
-Loosely based upon these existing concepts I would like to offer the term ''transmorphic space'' (trans: to go beyond, to change; morph: shape, form, structure). I would like to use it to describe  ''a space that transforms in a vacuum, created by the withdraw of meaning''. It defines a space by the performative state of redefining itself. This state of redefinition is the process of finding a new meaning.
+''Describe the space, by listing what you see.''
-I am not defining  spaces through their current relation to the human actors in it, nor through their shape or dynamics - as Augé, Foucault or Turner did.  I am using their quality of transformation and their non-human actors to characterise them. In these ''transmophic spaces,'' there are actors that perform the act of ''transmorphing''. These actors could be seen separated from the space, as outside influences. For me they are what makes up the space. A ''transmorphic space'' in the entangled net of actors transforming each other and by doing that, transforming the space.
+''Describe the space, by listing the functions of what you see.''
-The key example for a ''transmorphic'' space is a house whose owner moved away, no new humans are coming to settle in and it is taken back by nature.
+''Describe the space, by listing the interactions between the functions of see.''
-By the act of moving away, the intended meaning for the space was revoked from it. This creates a vacuum, which manifests itself in a search for new meaning.  Now the actors fill the vacuum. Insects, animals, plants, moles, fungi and bacteria start to shape the space. They transform it into something new.
-In this transformation the relationship between decay and reanimation is becoming important. The acts of transforming are almost always an interplay between destruction and construction, between dying and becoming alive, between falling apart and forming something new.
-'' transmorphic spaces'' are post-human spaces. Spaces that where torn from their anthropocentric purpose. Exploring these spaces can give us an idea of what can happen after humans have disappeared from this planet.
+''Describe yourself, by listing everything you perceive.''
-Understanding this process is not meant to understand the new meaning of the space, but only to observe the state of change.The vacuum and its relationship to spatiality, the human perspective of what is meaningful, meaningless and what is filled and empty. The question of meaning, emptiness and most other relative, human, descriptive terms, are purely subjective. Firstly subjective to the human species and secondly subjective to every individual. Exploring these seemingly absolute states, loosens our hardened understanding of reality and our accompanying expectations.
+''Describe yourself, by listing the interactions between what you perceive.''
-This way of exploring a space is, to me, the fundamental form of an aesthetic experiences - when following the definition of ''Erika Fischer-Lichte''. She describes an aesthetic experience as an experience where you perceive an object, while you perceive yourself. Exploring the space is exploring your self. You are becoming an actor of transformation, you are becoming part of the space, you are becoming space. You can experience how you influence the process of transmorphing and you can experience how you are being changed by the space. ''The process of exploration is perceiving the feedback between you and the world around you.''
+''Describe yourself, by listing the meaning behind the interactions between what you perceive.''
-'''Project Realization'''
-In the artistic research project ''resonances of the abandoned'' I am exploring the concept of transmorphic spaces. I am choosing a space and try to understand to actors of change. I am documenting with photos and video. I am taking samples to investigate in the Lab and try to make sense out of what is happening. Who is doing what and who is influencing whom.
+''Describe the space, by listing the  interactions between you and the space.''
-In the end I would like to develop a technique, so that explorations like this could be adapted to workshop-like, collectively performative formats. Excursions with adults and children, that find ways to enter and explore a space not for finding concrete answers, but for the performative and transformational qualities of exploring. Because through exploring these spaces, we can learn how to explore ourselves. We can learn to understand what our own role in this world is. How we influence our surroundings and how our surroundings influence us.
+''Describe the space, by listing the functions of the interactions between you and the space.''
+''Describe the space, by listing the meaning behind the functions of the interconnections between you and the space.''
+''Describe, by listing: Function of the space.''
+''Describe, by listing: Boarders of the space.''
+''Describe, by listing: Myself and the space.''
+[[File:describe_diagram of influences.jpg|1500px]]