(e)motion and matter : a workshop with selina bonelli and joseph morgan schofield
We will use this time to explore how sustained encounter with objects//materials can arouse memories//memorials that will drive (performance) actions. These actions may create states where desire or feeling become known or transformed, or may help us articulate things for which we do not yet have the language. Through action, we hope these things that matter, might become evident, even fleetingly, even just for a moment. We will acknowledge and welcome the speculative, tentative nature of these states.
In its relationship to memory, this workshop speaks to autobiography, but we will consciously resist working narratively, opting instead to work with (e)motion, instinct and intuition.
We will invite participants to bring objects and materials that relate to their personal archeology - these may be significant or mundane, precious or commonplace. We welcome totems, relics, mementos, objects in various states of repair, keepsakes, items rich with memory, libidinal energy, or charged by use. We will each work with our own materials and, so as not to limit exploration, it's recommended to bring things that you expect you are willing to transform.
This workshop is for artists at all stages of their practice, who wish to explore object-memory-action. We invite questions, queries and responses to Joseph - josephmorganschofield@gmail.com.
If you cannot afford to take part, but would like to, please get in touch with Joseph.
We would like to keep the group size small, so please confirm early.
Regretfully, Chisenhale Dance Space is on the second floor, accessed by a staircase and therefore is not wheelchair accessible. If you have further questions about the accessibility of the workshop, please get in touch.
Supported using public funds by Arts Council England.
The individual artistic practices of selina bonelli and Joseph Morgan Schofield's share a keen sense of materiality and a wilful urge to act. The artists will perform at CDS in June, before undertaking a residency at ]performance s p a c e[.
In exploring the relationships that different types of memory have to gestures, images and materials, selina bonelli is interested in how our bodies make sense of things that are unspeakable, uncommunicable, and how this affects us both personally and societally. bonelli’s work looks at the effects of the deterritorialization of materials and actions in order to approach a language beyond the inadequacies it presents us with.
Through their work, Joseph Morgan Schofield seeks to interrogate visible and invisible tensions, using ritual and mythic forms to articulate a language of desire and endurance. things unfold with intensity and determined force; across a duration spectacle, and masc notions of heroic suffering are subverted or undercut. The body itself becomes a [queer] structure for ritual, for processing, for communing.
Chisenhale Dance Space is a member-led organisation supporting experimentation in dance and performance, and an affordable home for the dance community. We offer classes for children and adults, artist development and support programmes for professional dance artists, and a boundary-pushing performance programme in our venue and beyond.
Regretfully, Chisenhale Dance Space is on the second floor, accessed by a staircase and therefore is not wheelchair accessible.
The staircase to the lounge and two studios has 40 steps and an uninterrupted banister on the right-hand side. There are no steps or stairs once you are on studio level. We regret that the buzzer is too high to reach from most wheelchairs. Our external fire exit is a straight line of 40 steps with a banister along both sides. Please get in touch if you need to use this exit to enter the building, or if you have any other access requirements.
CDS has two bathrooms, one with two cubicles, and the other with one cubicle and one urinal. Both are gender neutral.