1/ G-Project (2022)
“Time travels in species collaborations”
( Workshop at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) / Berlin)
G-Project
『種間のコラボレーションにおけるタイムトラベル』
( ベルリン芸術大学 / ベルリン)
2/ G-Project (2019)
“World constellations through poetic performing encounters”
(CUNY, PSi conference # 25 / New York, Calgary)
G-Project
『詩的パフォーマンスの邂逅による世界の星座』
（ニューヨーク市立大学、PSi conference # 25 ／ニューヨーク、カルガリー）
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（Photo：Maharu Maeno )
“Time travels in species collaborations” (2019 Calgary, 2022 Berlin) Alex Viteri, Shuntaro Yoshida
Mapped to the Closest Address is an interspecies dance collective composed of four human animals and a cat, Violeta. Our collective maintains two gardens. Shuntaro Yoshida and Maharu Maeno share a rooftop garden in Hyogo, Japan. Violeta, Catalina Fernandez and Alex Viteri joined a Schrebergarten in Markendorf, Germany. The time within our gardens informs and nourishes our methods.
In 2018, we met. Sometime in 2019, we saw Eiko Otake perform in commemoration of the 2011 Fukushima Tsunami. Then came 2020 and we departed from NY. As our collective was dispersed in two geographical locations, we looked for methods to transcend our apparently dissonant time zones. We’ve played with digital and analogue mediums (fax machine) to develop scores and share our findings. We’ve also collaborated with lemongrass, chickens and a cat, adding to our perception of different time zones. Thus, this past year, our explorations also generated questions of communication.
In the past, our work has taken the form of a social choreography inspired in Eiko’s Remembering Fukushima (2019), a video archive of our first long distance residency Open Forest Launch (2020), and various dance scores for collaborating with nonhuman subjects (2020-2021). In the workshop, we will share these materials and reflect on other possible choreographic temporal travels between species. Can we tune in to other’s species timescales, and if so, is it possible to witness their performative acts trained as we are to follow the improper human clocks? We propose to collectively think on multiple frameworks for collaborating with nonhuman and human subjects.
Supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Members: Alex Viteri, Shuntaro Yoshida,
Material: Google Map (Miyako Harbor), Natural objects in a coastline
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we'll go over how this happened performance lecture:
in conversation with scholars at the intersections of performance and ecology, our lecture aims to explore the ways dance scores connect to the visual/affective experience of space
following our fascination with nature's creating power, we look at the conceptualization of landscapes in apocalyptical narratives, environmental disasters, and eco guerrillas
we wish to interrogate our perspective as citizens of modernity, to mine our relation to nature and the natural, to collectively sew practices where to share and interrogate our particular historical, socio-political landscapes
in our performance lecture, we will focus on ecological damage and orchestrate a sensual experience of space
we are excited to share the documentation of our encounters and to interrogate our practice as performance makers in collaboration
*We gratefully acknowledge the lineage of Land Artist from which this collaboration draws.