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Residency | Exploring Vibration & Pattern Rhythmicity | Sharon Stewart & Bettina Neuhaus

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CLOUD is happy to welcome Sharon Stewart & Bettina Neuhaus for their residency in February!

Exploring Vibrational and Natural Pattern Rhythmicity:
Saturation and Distillation in Body and Sound

Stewart & Neuhaus aim to investigate how the body – with its tangible, palpable matter and its immaterial facets – responds and relates to sound on the level of vibration, vibrational rhythmicity and rhythms generated by natural patterns (see below) and how rhythms of the body inspire the generation of sound and sonic vibrations.
● How do sound vibrations alter the rhythmicity of the permeable physical body – vibrating bones, tissues and organs – and stimulate movement? This raises the question: what is inner (response to) rhythmicity as revealed in movement?
● How do external sound vibrations travel through the body and influence it in terms of directionality?
● What is the role of space as a connecting and transmitting medium between body and
sound?

What we include with sonic vibrational rhythmicity is based on the understanding that vibrations might be considered sped-up “beats,” which can be manipulated through interference, playing with constructive and destructive interference, to generate pulses and using panning and LFO’s to manipulate these phenomena, for example. With natural pattern rhythmicity, we explore the transient peaks or amplitude curves of sounds that might be considered “natural,” such as that of flowing water or the choruses of birds or insects.We will also address the rhythmicity of the body – heartbeat, breath and brainwaves – to the extent that we are able with the technology available. These natural patterns will be examined and exploited for their rhythmic qualities: used either in their unedited version or to drive synthesized sound.

This material – (manipulated) sine (or more complex) waves with their interference patterns and digitally augmented and/or transformed natural pattern rhythms – will be used to create a quadraphonic soundscape that will impact the body of the dancer, create sympathetic vibrations in the sounding space and enter the bodies of the audience as well. If technically possible, we will try to create a responsive system in which the sound is in some way affected/controlled by the dancer. During the residency these explorations and this research will be continually sifted for the compositional material it offers.

About the artists

Bettina Neuhaus is an Amsterdam-based dance artist and researcher who has been working in the field of performance internationally for more than 25 years, collaborating with dancers, musicians, visual artists, poets and philosophers. In addition to her work as prominent improviser, she creates performative installations, site-specific performances and lecture-demonstrations. Propelled by her ongoing fascination with the body in motion – its intelligence, imagination and transformative nature – her work emphasizes the fluid use of the entire spectrum of expression: moving, sounding and speaking.
www.bettinaneuhaus.com

Sharon Stewart studied piano at the Utrecht School of the Arts, Faculty of Music, and later completed a Masters in Music Pedagogy at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, where she focused on feminism, improvisation and technology in a music pedagogical practice. Works with dancers have been performed at festivals and other venues in Arnhem, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, The Hague (NL), Copenhagen (DE) and Marseilles (FR). Field recordings form an inspirational basis for many of her compositions. Sharon became certified in Deep Listening, with Pauline Oliveros, IONE and Heloise Gold in 2011 and is now a teacher for the online Deep Listening program at RPI.
www.handsonpiano.nl
www.sonicstudies.org
www.soundcloud.com/sharonrstewart

CLOUD, Workshop

Workshop SPIRAAL |Contemporary whirling | Valentina Lacmanovic

5 February | 13:00 – 20:00 | Early bird €85,-
Check: Facebook event

SPIRAAL is an original, contemporary approach to whirling movements. This approach was developed by Valentina Lacmanović, based on art, science research and practice.

Spiraling movement is at the core of our galaxy, our DNA, it is the force of nature in hurricanes and vortices. Spiraling patterns can be found in the shape of our fingerprint and the form of Time. It is a powerful instrument that leads towards harmonizing our physical, mental, emotional and energy bodies.

SPIRAAL workshop proposes an intensive work on sustained spiraling movement technique, disorientation, listening and body/mind (dis)connection. In a safe environment, participants travel through trance-like states and learn how to tap into the creative flow.

The build-up is inspired by techniques of breathing, internal martial arts and organic approach to body and mind motion. An introduction to ritualistic elements in contemporary performance is given through structured improvisations.

*Suitable for anyone engaged in corporal practice (dancers, performers, actors, martial arts or yoga practitioners… both amateurs and professionals). OPEN LEVEL!

Registration
Early Bird till 14th of January €85,-
Regular price after 14th of January €100,-

Registration via email: cloud.danslab@gmail.com

Visit: www.valentinalacmanovic.com

CLOUD, Workshop

Action Dance Workshop | Sandra Kramerova

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ACTION DANCE WORKSHOP

Date: January 7th 2017
Time: 2-4 pm

Price:
early bird (till 24th Dec) €10
after 24th Dec: €15 
registration via email: sandy006@gmail.com

Action dance workshop with Sandra Kramerova is geared towards exploration of technicality, dynamic modalities and aesthetics of athleticism. Participants investigate explosive potential of movement, tap their imagination through action based improvisations and transform everyday material into choreography. The focus is on energy flow, impulse driven functional motion, risk taking, contact, creative decision making, expressivity and artistry.

Sandra Kramerová is Slovak born and Israel/New York crafted dancer and choreographer. She is immersed in practices of contemporary dance, physical theater, improvisation and somatics. Before her Dance MFA studies in NY Sandra participated in Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s International Program in Israel. Sandra performed and choreographed works presented internationally at BAM Fisher, Danspace Project, Dixon Place (NYC, USA), Zichri Theater (Israel) and at other venues in Slovakia and abroad.

https://vimeo.com/kramerova

CLOUD, Residents

Residency|Christina Karagianni & Pierre Magendie|KTC

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Presentation:  16 december 20:00u.

KTC stands for KammerTanz Coop. We are an open bunch of artists mainly trained in dance at the Greek State School of Dance (aka KSOT) but willing to experiment and create at the intersection of choreography and performance arts, whether live music, video art, comedy, fashion runway. Originally constituted in 2011 in Athens by Christina Karagianni (GR/ND) and Pierre Magendie (FR), the crew evolved according to the needs of its creators and creations.

vimeo : https://vimeo.com/user6848649

For the sake of reunion and dealing with the consequences of a reunion. After having had worked together in the past, the interest to work together again has arisen. We are challenged to create – within a restricted time frame – a contingent and open practiced situation where we discuss one our how-abouts. How to relate to one another, how to share in real-time our working methods and how to update what has happened during KTC hiatus era.

With our reunion we are questioning the working conditions of the artistic field. This is a reunion and not a project based meeting. By working this direction we are questioning the restrictive temporal dimension of a project (which presupposes outset and finalization and working towards an aim) and which is dominant in the processes of making in the contemporary artistic field. (See The Project Horizon: On the Temporality of Making by Bojana Kunst). Our reunion has no strategy and plan. We welcome the possibility of a disaster.

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CLOUD, movement classes, Residents

Residency | Lowlands Light project | DalioArts

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13 November – 18 December 2016

Movement labs | Wednesday 30 nov 10:00-12:00 / Monday 5 and 12 dec 20:00-22:00| €5/lab

Presentation |jan 2017 more details soon|

Monica Sharon is a choreographer and filmmaker with DalioArts, a performing arts collective which aims to create work in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. She is currently in residence at the DCR guest studios, along with choreographer Angela Fegers and visual artist Taffy Boudewijns, who are also a part of DalioArts.

She is here to start the creation of Lowlands Light project, an interdisciplinary installation combining dance, light sculptures, film and live music. Currently, she is at research stage of the movement section of the project.

The Lowlands Light Project aims to culminate into an interactive installation that combines choreography, light sculptures, short films and a color of choice. Each color chosen on the four button switchboard corresponds to a certain choreography, film and multiple light sculptures, strategically placed, to illuminate the performer. The way the performance unfolds is decided by the participator, who will choose an order of colors without knowing the outcome beforehand.

At the Cloud/Danslab, we aim to research, experiment, learn and connect with the community. Through movement research and experimentation within the space, we look to find ways of moving that can be transferred to different sites, while experimenting with compositional structures, such as the chance theory. Our research days are our lab days where we experiment, play and explore.

Through our weekly classes, we connect with the community, experiment, research and learn from our participants as much as we hope they would learn from us. An exchange in knowledge and ideas is what we look for in every class we lead. We do not consider ourselves to be the sole teachers of the classes, but merely a guide to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
At the end of our time here at the Cloud/Danslab, we will finish with a small, informal showing with a concept in support of our current piece, The Lowlands Light project. This showing will be just a taste of what’s to come in the near future.

http://www.gueststudio.com

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Residency | Ludic Collective

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10 – 23 October 2016

Presentation | by invitation
Movement Labs | contact: ludic.collective@gmail.com

Ludic Collective would like to present their focus and meditate on how their interests convert into movement/choreographic processes:

1. How can you dance/choreograph without being a dancer/choreographer – in terms of studies.

2. How can you dance without having to copy movements from someone else.
Every dancer is their own choreographer.  Not using one’s individuality is a limitation.

“Two minds are better than one; we don’t believe in hierarchy and fixed roles in performance making. We are very interested in skill-swapping and strong collaboration throughout the creation and development of a project – it is not only the choreographers that work with dancers, it is also the musician, scenographer, producer that can act as choreographers.”

During this residency we will be working on two subjects:

Inverted Planet- an immersive performance : we want to explore how our physicalities and psychologies respond to extreme speculative changes – gravitational/geological/biological… –  in our surroundings.

Our focus lies in the diverse nature of people: their culture/ backgrounds,  memories, ways of seeing, moving, speaking etc. Whatever form we undertake, we find contents from the participants and collaborators. 

Perception as Movement Generator: we are interested in exploring how our perception about external stimuli/objects can be physicalised, and therefore work as movement generator.

When doing the exercises rather than starting from nothing, Ludic wishes to introduce a formula, which will help the performers to construct a working process method that will almost work like a machine. 

Ludic Manipesto

We are  serious. We are very serious about not being serious.

We are Ludic.

We make many attempts

Attempts to do what?

Attempts to create, make and explore

Explore what?

Maybe art, maybe food, maybe just some time with some people.

We make
non-theatrical theatre
non-dramatic drama
non-literary literature
non-musical music

and non-performative performances.

But we are not, not necessarily, using these opposite views as our motivation.

 We are not ideally post-anything.

We just want what we want.

We evolve around nice food, good people and excitement.

We tend to add subtle elements and details to our performances just as much as we tend to add oregano and paprika in our dishes.

 We really like the small things. The big things are for adults. We are not there yet, nor will we ever get there.

We respect unintentional process and its consequences.

These manifesto can be easily contradicted by any of us.

Visit: www.ludiccollective.com

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CLOUD Club #13 Hypnosonic Encounters with the Unknown | with Virginie Dubois

Next CLOUD Club will be a sonic trip to the unknown. Guided by sound artist Virginie Dubois (FR/NL), we’ll depart on a trance session, with sounds from here and the beyond. Virginie is preparing a new piece specially for this occasion, and you’re invited to join her experiment of ‘entrainment’ at the CLOUD/Danslab studio.

Entrainment in Biomusicology in the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm. Together and with the construction of rhythms provided by Virginie, we’ll tremble, shiver and burst to beats from around the world.

This will be the first time that CLOUD Club hosts a sound artist to provide the dancing experience. CLOUD Club is an experimental  space to engage artists, choreographers, dancers, movers of all kinds and the audience on the dance-floor. Organized by CLOUD members Fazle Shairmahomed and Ludmila Rodrigues.

We hope to see you then!

Friday 21st October 2016
Doors open at 20:30
Session starts at 21:00
(No entrance after 21:00)

Please be on time!
No shoes allowed, socks will rock!
Contribution € 7,00
Feel free to bring your own drinks

About Virginie Dubois:

Virginie Dubois (FR, 1977) completed her art studies at the KABK Royal Academy of Arts & Koncon/Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2013, and received a second master degree in applied arts at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam in 2014.
Her work focuses on the relationship between sound, space and architecture; and more generally between sound and the listener.
Using architecture and urban places as musical instruments, Dubois explores the sonority of space and develops sound installations, sound walks and public interventions with the idea to enhance the acoustic qualities of the space.

“In my approach, ‘walking’ and ‘listening’ are essential: they are the fundamental tools at the heart of my practice. By bringing awareness and presence to simple actions and social behaviors, my goal is to invite the audience to experience ‘listening’ as a playful and powerful methodology.
From walking to intentionally wandering, from hearing to carefully listening, one will learn how to consciously, and fully partake to the environment.
It is then, that the perception of sound becomes a spatial event, a material phenomenon, and a physiological experience.”
www.virginiedubois.com

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Workshop | Egyptian dance with live music | Laura de Gaspari

Saturday, 3 September 13:30-18:00
Early Bird €50,- till 10 August
Late Bird €60,- after 10 August
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The joy and freedom of dance: an experience to go deeper into our bodies through the wisdom of ancient moves.
Egyptian/Arabic dance with master musician Sattar Al Saadi: a search for the Beauty of essential movement.

First part:
Energizing warm up by means of natural breathing and movement techniques to awaken the body to its inner energy and wisdom.
A natural posture with a strong centre and an aligned spine which allow the natural flow of movement. Floating arms on a centred body. Searching for the purity of essential movements in Classical Egyptian/Arabic dance: lines, curves, walk.
Elements of free improvisations on live music .

Second part: Ritualistic and Sufi elements on the subtle and powerful rhythms of the Bendir. Joy and freedom of dance!

For whom: The workshops is for all levels and dancers of all background with an openness to the experience. It will suit beginners and advanced dancers because we will go to the essence of movement.

To register, please contact Laura de Gaspari via Facebook or by mail: lmdegaspari@gmail.com

 

CLOUD

Residency | Propositions of Engagement | Joy M. Smith & Isabelle Sully

25 – 31 July
Presentation | Friday 29 July 20:00 | Facebook
Movement Labs | Monday – Friday 10:00-13:00 | Facebook

How does the dichotomy of urban vs rural serve us and can we embody/perform ‘access’ as marginalized people?

During this residency Joy and Isabelle wish to further their research as part of a larger project called ‘PROJECT: PROPOSAL’. In ‘Propositions of Engagement’. They will further research on solo one-to-one performance, romance, intimacy, consent, agency (feminism, queer theory), real vs fake, ritual, beguilement and romance/courtship.

The structure of proposition serves as the basis for generating text and performance. Allowing them to reflect, produce, [re]generate material based on the embodied performance of the rural and the performance of self via voice, movement and automatic writing. The methodology surrounding this project has been developed through a resistance of and opposition to definitions of the ‘rural’. Through this project Joy and Isabelle are proposing a definition of rural within which they can work, and that they have defined themselves, which focuses on intersectionalities — rather than existing within the dichotomy of urban and rural. What they mean by this is: does this dichotomy serve us? Joy and Isabelle acknowledge the inherent romanticism associated with the rural and have chosen to direct their attention to this constructed romance by using the vehicle of spousal relationships as a medium. Coming from an ancestry where the relationship to land and ‘countryside’ — which happens to be the etymological root of rural — is not romantic, where instead, this narrative was interrupted and disrupted by the colonial project, it seems necessary to focus on romance as a tool for social activism and performance.

In this project they are engaging in a (re)generative process, that antagonised the line between social practice and art as life. It is through this project that they propose to talk about the intersection of rural within the frame of their own cultural narrative, to talk about ethnicity, race, class, sexuality and gender through their own current margins and the lens of commodification of self in order to survive.

About Joy Mariama Smith
Joy Mariama Smith a native Philadelphian relocated to the Netherlands to complete an MFA program at the Dutch Art Institute, Smith’s work primarily addresses the conundrum of projected identities in various contexts. For example, they* do not make work explicitly about being black, their approach is to question what ‘blackness’ is as a social construct and what others may assume about them as a product of that construct. Smith uses the same tactic with gender, sexuality, and class. Rooted in socially engaged art practice, Smith is a performance/installation/movement artist, curator and architectural designer.They have a strong improvisational practice spanning 20 years. Smith is the co-founder of the COLLAGE Festival, and has shown work in various festivals in the US; most recently the SoLow Festival in Philadelphia, PA. They co-facilitate Couples Therapy, a lab focusing on collaboration between artists. Smith is currently investigating efficiency in collaborative processes, and ‘real time’ as an artistic medium. When they choose to teach, they actively try to uphold inclusive spaces. A sub-theme, or ongoing question in their work is: What is the interplay between the body and it’s physical environment?

www.yournameherecollective.com

they/them/their*: third person singular gender-neutral pronoun

About Isabelle Sully
Isabelle Sully is an Australian artist temporarily based in Rotterdam who works across writing and visual platforms, as well as collaborative and curatorial projects. In 2015 she performed as part of Non-Transmittable Form, a public outcome of collective research presented at the Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia. Earlier in 2015 she self-published the first editions of Buffet Publication. The publication was then invited to launch at World Food Books, Melbourne, as well as the National Gallery of Victoria Art Book Fair. Isabelle was also commissioned by West Space Journal Volumn 4, where she produced a text which was then performed as a script as part of the public program at the NGV. She is currently working on a roaming curatorial project called Salon Gallery, which has already received critical attention in Frieze Magazine. Isabelle is also undertaking a Masters at the Dutch Art Institute, the Netherlands.

www.isabelle-sully.com

 

 

CLOUD

Presentation | Pt. II – With Observing Eyes | Patricia Vane

bgPresentation: 10 July 2016 | 20:00

PART II _WITH OBSERVING EYES

Research question:

What could be the pristine behavior of my body in time and space?

I am looking for a pristine behavior of my body in time and space.

I am observing a pristine behavior of me in time and space.

I am observing the initial behavior of my body in x time and x space

rudimentary

What could be the rudimental behavior of my body in x time and x space?

intended goal: to expand the range of freedom from zero
to expand the range of freedom from the existing blueprint of my body to zero.

I found myself growing back home in a dark cave and I knew this could be Heaven. 

Somewhere suddenly I was fascinated by going back to a state of nothingness, trying to be empty.

In Sweden I found meanings of home, of states of being at ease. Going back to a delicate honest unspoiled position. I was looking into the theory of justice. John Rawls, who wrote about the way of depriving, cleaning from presumptions, approach the other with an ignorance to equalize.

When my father was laying in a coma for two months, waking up almost knowing nothing, I learnt about the depriving and the primal habits of a human.

In the middle of May my grandmother passed away and I was confronted with distinct feelings of origins. Who am I? What is my position in this timeline? Why am I here? What is my drive? Where do I come from?

Classes, CLOUD

Residency The whispering Game | Nina Orteu

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Residency: 11/24 July 2016

Presentation: Saturday 23 July

Project sessions:

Participant 1: 13th July (morning)/ Participant 2: 15th July (morning)/ Participant 3 : 16th July (morning)/ Participant 4: 21st July (morning)/ Participant 5: 23rd July (morning)

Workshop:
12 July 11:30h
14 July 11:30h
19 July 11:30h
22 July 11:30h 

About Nina Orteu 

Nina Orteu is a Catalan artist who works between the Netherlands and Barcelona. She started developing her performance practice when she got involved with Corpologia, a performance art festival, and became a member of the group. Later on, she also iniciated her own performance art festival in the Netherlands, Vertigo, and combined it with a performance research group for women artists in Barcelona.

She uses her body as a tool to research. For Nina, performance is not the goal, it is just a medium to get answers. She started her research in performance as a way to communicate to others things that cannot be said, most of the times related to her personal family history and involving domestic violence as a core topic.

More recently, she has started to add the participation of other people in her performances. Her main interest at the moment consists on the other. She wants to be able to understand and embrace the other, but at the same time she wants her to be understood and embraced too.

Project: the whispering game
Family and relationships, are my main focus of interest. I position myself as a daughter and sometimes, as a mother. In my performances, I research this topic while performing with other people or inanimate things that play a symbolic role in my life. This allows me to investigate how human relations function, so I can find other ways of living and loving, that are different from what I learned during my childhood with an abusive father.

The project
Nina is looking for participants who would like to take part in her research during the residency period. The idea of the whispering game project is based on a childhood game with that same name. ‘One person whispers a message to another, which is passed on through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first.’

As part of my work I am inviting 5 people to play that game with me. In this case, instead of words, we are going to use actions to pass it through the line of participants. I will be the initiator of the game proposing an action called “The Ceremony” where daily objects take part. This will be the trigger to develop more actions together. 
Would you like to join me? or do you have any questions?
send an email to : cloud.danslab@gmail.com
with subject:’ the wispering game’
Workshop: The Female Archive
this workshop aims to introduce women performance artists, to understand their practices and relate them to the present and put their concepts on the table in order to develop work in relation to theirs.
1 class € 7
whole workshop € 25
 

Sessions:

12th July at 11:30h -> the female archive : Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono, probably better known as the one that separated The Beatles. 
Her work as an artist is very diverse. Member of Fluxus, she developed work using imagination as a very important tool. During her hard childhood in Japan, she often found herself playing games where she imagined delicious meals to eat to distract from her starvation. This is what later on, will trigger her other works. 
During the workshop, we will have several scripts she wrote to be performed and interpreted in different ways for us. 
 
14th July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Ana Mendieta
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Ana Mendieta left Cuba when she was a child, during the “Peter Pan program”. She was brought to USA, leaving her family behind. In her work, she tries to reconnect to the land, the earth, and become one with it. She talks about her loss using her body and nature. 
As an activity, Nina Orteu proposes to go to the beach and try to reenact or reinvent some of her pieces from the “Siluetas” series.
 
19th July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Rebecca Horn
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Rebecca Horn has started exploring the concept of equilibrium with her body, and later on in her work, using kinetic structures. However, not related to that, she made a very interesting piece where she cut her own hair with a pair of scissors in front of a camera. Based on that, we are going to investigate during the workshop the importance of hair and its symbolic value while combining it with some of her equilibrium actions. 
 
22nd July at 11:30h -> the female archive: Carolee Schneemann
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Carolee Scheemann is known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. In her piece interior scroll, she ritualistically stood naked on a table, painted her body with mud until she slowly exracted a paper scroll from her vagina while reading from it. I propose for the workshop to think about our bodies, reconnect to them, reactivate the pelvis/genital area as a center of energy and creativity.
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Residency | Habitual Behavior of the Body | Patricia Vane

bergrummet02-10 juli 2016

Presentation: sunday 10 juli 20:00 u.

Labs: 5 july  10:00 till 13:00 / 7 july 9:00 till 11:00

please send an email if u want to join to: cloud.danslab@gmail.com (subject Patricia Vane)

price per Lab : 7€

 

Patricia Vane studied applied arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Currently working in the field of performance art: ‘I choreograph movement, compose sound and design costumes. Space and ambiance are a great contribution to my performances. Therefor I also style sets, make installations and capture my performances on video and in pictures.’

She started forming an ongoing research, using the disciplines dance, fashion design, sound design and visual art to give visual construction to the research.

Philosophizing about the world’s issues of today around segregation, crisis and populism, reading John Rawls justice theories and Erich Fromm’s social discourses, she went deeper into the motives of human behavior. Why are we discriminating. judging, making others lives miserable? Why do we make the other suffer? Why are we not in peace with one another? What makes us behaving bad towards each other? Where does this aggressiveness originate? What is its source?

The main answer that came along: the aggression comes out of those people who are behaving badly. And those people are we. We are the source. It derives from us. It comes from us. From within.

If it is indeed coming from within ourselves she can make a conclusion that in order to find non-belligerence amongst each other, we should find peace within ourselves. To do so, she  has emphasized the great importance of the need of an individual state of happiness and came down to the essential question: How do we get happy*? A seemingly too simple question yet explicitly present in our entire human history.

This proposal for residence at Cloud is part of the happiness research where she studies the natural behavior of bodies/embodiments. In this particular section she will focus on the details of her own physical body being in her original positions. When is her body feeling most natural, safe, comfortable and so: when is the body most happy*?