Crafting the Real - three multimedia performances

Forms and Politics of the Documentary in the Interplay of Theatre, Music, Film and Digital Art

A collaboration with the LUDICS SEMINAR of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

Through the act of crafting, artists transform real incidents into the forms of performance, composition, film or computational arts. The act of crafting records these real incidents, but at the same time it also manipulates them according to the inner logics of these aesthetic forms. This gathering assembles differently situated practices of crafting from different artistic disciplines and from across different geographical places. By so doing, it seeks to explore which protocols inform practices of crafting and which scenarios of learning (and unlearning) of craftsmanship artists (and their audiences) have to undergo. Who owns the standards of craftsmanship? How does crafting the real game with our understanding of past, present and future? How could (and should) one game with the very idea of craftsmanship itself? Why is the dilettante not automatically a revolutionary?

4:45- 6:00pm The Stinking Nose: Towards a Culinary Theater of the Real?

Lecture Performance by Brandon Woolf and Q&A

6:15-7:30pm Dramatizing Real Conflicts

Staged Readings from Siting Yang`s Play Sky of Darkness in Collaboration with Citizen TALES Commons, followed by Q&A

8.00pm – 9:00pm Music as Documentation

Codes of Absence – A Documentary Concert by Christancho, Tilli, and Tuchmann and Q&A

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