La Pocha Nostra – delavnica o performansu

Gómez-Pena in člani skupine Pocha Nostra že od leta 1993
vodijo večkulturne/večdisciplinarne/večgeneracijske delavnice, na katerih
sodelujejo performerji, igralci, plesalci in študenti iz različnih etničnih
skupnosti, generacij in umetniških področij.

Na delavnici potekata dva vzporedna procesa: 5 do 8 ur
dnevno udeleženci spremljajo metodologijo performansa La Poche Nostre,
eklektično zmes vaj, zbranih iz različnih tradicij (eksperimentalno gledališče
in ples, Suzuki, ritualni performans, šamanizem itn.). Vzporedno skupina
teoretično analizira ustvarjalni proces, problematiko, ki jo obravnava delo,
njegovo estetsko vrednost, kulturni vpliv in politični vidik.

Če okoliščine dovoljujejo, je po zaključku delavnice javni
performans za občinstvo.

Cilji izobraževalnega projekta so:

Pomagati in usmeriti mlade umetnike in radovedne študente,
da izostrijo in razvijejo svoje performativne in analitične veščine v dialogu z
enakomislečimi kulturnimi radikalci.
Ustvariti začasne skupnosti uporniških umetnikov z različnih
področij, različnih starosti, etnične pripadnosti, spolnih prepričanj in
narodnosti, v katerih razlik in eksperimentiranja ne zgolj sprejemamo, ampak
jih spodbujamo.
Razviti nove modele odnosov med umetniki in skupnostmi,
mentorjem in udeleženci, ki niso kolonialistični niti pokroviteljski.
Najti nove, bolj neposredne načine, kako se postaviti v kožo
‘drugega’, in se pri tem izogniti neštetim mejam, ki jih postavljajo
profesionalne institucije, verska in politična prepričanja in pop-kulturne
združbe. Taka izkušnja, čeprav zgolj v času delavnice, ima lahko močan vpliv na
prihodnje ustvarjanje udeleženca.
Odkriti nove poti vzpostavljanja stika z lastnim telesom. Z
dekolonizacijo in repolitizacijo lahko postanejo naša telesa prostor za
aktivizem in utelešena teorija; za spomin in izumljanje, za užitek in kazen.
Načeti bistvena vprašanja: Zakaj počnemo, kar počnemo?
Katere meje hočemo prestopiti in zakaj? Katere meje najtežje prestopimo tako na
delavnici kot v zasebnem življenju? Kako definiramo naše različne skupnosti in
zakaj jim pripadamo? Kakšen je odnos med performansom, aktivizmom, pedagogiko
in našim vsakdanjim življenjem? Kaj pa odnos med fizičnim in družbenim telesom?
Iskati novo hibridno in interdisciplinarno estetiko, ki
odraža duh in stiske našega časa in dvome vsakega udeleženca.
Omogočiti udeležencem kot posameznikom, da postanejo
družbeno ozaveščeni umetniki.
Narediti umetnost performansa primerno za nove generacije
potencialnih aktivistov-umetnikov. Morda nas bodo morali rešiti pred pošastmi
in pastmi, ki smo jih – njihovi arogantni predniki – ustvarili ali dovolili, da
se zgodijo.

Koncept:
La Pocha Nostra (Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dani d'Emilia, Erica Mott);
Produkcija in organizacija: Mesto žensk; Koprodukcija: Zavod Emanat; V
sodelovanju: Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Kreatorij DIC.

S podporo: EU Kultura, Veleposlaništvo ZDA v
Ljubljani.

Umetnice in sodelujoče

LA POCHA NOSTRA

Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Erica Mott

Dani d'Emilia

Video

La Pocha Nostra – Performance workshop

Workshop by Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Erica Mott, Dani d'Emilia Dani d'Emilia

Since 1993,
Gómez- Peña and members of La Pocha Nostra performance troupe have conducted
cross-cultural/cross-disciplinary/cross-generational workshops involving
performance artists, actors, dancers and students from diverse ethnic
communities, generations and artistic backgrounds.

During the
time of workshop, two parallel processes take place: For 5–8 hours a day, participants are exposed
to La Pocha’s performance methodology, an eclectic combination of exercises
sampled from various traditions (experimental theatre and dance, Suzuki, ritual
performance, shamanism, etc.). Parallel to this hands-on process, the group
theoretically analyses the creative process, the issues addressed by the work,
its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.

If
conditions allow, at the end of the process there can be a public performance
open to the local community.

The
objectives of this educational project are:

To feed /
stretch emerging artists and inquisitive students, helping them to sharpen and
develop their performance and analytical skills in dialogue with like-minded
cultural radicals.

To create
temporary communities of rebel artists from different disciplines, ages, ethnic
backgrounds, gender persuasions, and nationalities, in which difference and
experimentation are not only accepted but encouraged.

To develop
new models for relationships between artists and communities, mentor and
apprentice, which are neither colonial nor condescending.

To find new
modes of relating laterally to the ‘other' in a less-mediated way, bypassing
the myriad borders imposed by our professional institutions, our religious and
political beliefs, and pop-cultural affiliations. To experience this, even if
only for the duration of the workshop, can have a profound impact in the
participant’s future practice.

To discover
new ways of relating to our own bodies. By
decolonizing and then re-politicizing our bodies, they can become sites for
activism and embodied theory; for memory and reinvention; for pleasure and
penance.

To raise
crucial questions: Why do we do what we do? Which borders do we wish to cross
and why? Which are the hardest borders to cross both in the workshop and in our
personal lives? How do we define our multiple communities, and why do we belong
to them? What is the relationship between performance, activism, pedagogy and
our everyday lives? What about the relationship between the physical body and
the social body?

To seek a
new hybrid and interdisciplinary aesthetic, reflective of the spirit and
tribulations of our times, and of the concerns of each participant.

To empower
participants as individuals to become civic-minded artists.

Concept:
La Pocha Nostra (Guillermo
Gomez-Peña, Erica Mott, Dani d'Emilia);

Production and organization:
City of Women; Coproduction: Emanat Institute; In collaboration with: Old
Factory Station – Elektro Ljubljana, Kreatorij DIC.

Supported
by: EU Culture, U.S.
Embassy Ljubljana

www.pochanostra.com