The Armadillo

Our group consists of 6 members: Bianca Boragi, Yoann Durant, Matthew Siegle, Cléa Manzoni-Lucht, Judith Nuessler, Tim Cierpiswzeki.

This morning, the groups were divided mathematically. Group number 5 consists of 5 people who received number 5, and one who received number 7.

We left the 104 building, exploring the streets in the snow, in attempts to understand the neighborhood context of the institution. After a little bit, we decided to go to a cafe for discussion, settled at Cafe Mathis, It has a wonderful old fashioned setting, complemented with a stuffed armadillo and a fishtank. We dicussed whether 104 fit the role of its pruported mission.

After lunch, it was time to explore the neighborhood once again, this time in search of a quick project. This would serve as a starting point for further productions.

We ended up in a laundromat. Yoann wanted to improvise noise with his soprano saxophone, corresponding to the machines. Judith decided that she could dance between Yoann's noises, the machines, and improvisational performances of Bianca. Matt filmed this as video, and Tim and Cléa took pictures and stood by.




After the performance was completed, Tim and Cléa indicated that they didn't have a point of access for the collaboration, while Matt only documented.

We went for another coffee at Cafe Mathis, watched the video, looked at the pictures, discussed how to move forward. A reoccuring theme in our conversations was the discrepancy between the context created by 104 and that of the existing neighborhood (including beloved Cafe Mathis and the armadillo). Perhaps this can be a common theme for our work week?

Back at the 104, we ate almost a full tin of cookies and continued talking. Now the moment arrived to focus our efforts: do we choose a specfic conceptual drive behind our week, in attempts to form one singular project, or do we free ourselves from trational practices and rules, creating new work of the moment each day? We argued.

Cléa suggested, perhaps, "Let's come up with a word, a theme, to have as a starting point, so those who are less improvisionally motivated can access collaboration each day."

We decided on deplacer. In german, this is deplaziert, in english, this is to displace. Tomorrow, we each will also bring one small item to indicate our working process around this idea.