s t a r t i n g   o n   J u l y   8   a t   1 0 a m

D I E G O   A G U L L Ó

J o u r n e y   o f   c o l l e c t i v e   b o d y

O b s e r v e r s   o f   t h e   e v e n t

In this workshop we will become a collective body of spectators travelling through all type of spaces using the choreographic exercise of The Chair Game. The Chair Game brings seated bodies into motion. A group of seated bodies constitutes a collective body of spectators, such as a theater audience or a group of students in a class. The Chair Game responds to the question of how to set in motion seated bodies? How to set in motion a theater audience?

We will train on how to move collectively while sitting on a chair and how to place ourselves in the position of observers of public spaces and everyday life situations.

Our central idea is to produce estrangement towards everyday life, to exercise complicity as a group and to train our capacities of movement based on collective principles.

This workshop is an investigation on the relation between theory and practice, philosophy and art. How to practice theory? In which way is art a form of theory?

No special professional background is required. Just come and play. Be ready for the unexpected to happen. 

DIEGO AGULLÓ was born in Madrid in 1980 and he presses orange juice every morning. He practices dilettantism across art and philosophy investigating the affinity between the concepts of Body and Event. His work passes through different forms such as performance, video art, participatory events, lectures, texts, installations and workshops.

Diego's frame of research is called Theoros, and it is dedicated to create contexts for learning and investigating the role of the body in the practice of theory. It deals with the intersection between pedagogy and art, dilettantism and professionalism. In this light, the artistic practice becomes a way of practicing philosophy.

The workshops are facilitated frames for a temporary collective body to engage in the process of dancing and choreographing a series of practical problems using the methodology of cyclic interval oscillation, a practice that seeks to keep open the relation to alterity. 

www.diegoagullo.com

www.diegoagulloworkshop.wordpress.com