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Exercise 13 – Monday 16th of October “Get the ball out of the pipe”

This exercise is from the book “Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas” by engineer James Adams. Employing unconventional exercises and other interactive elements, Adams shows individuals, teams, and organizations how to overcome these blocks, embrace alternative ways of thinking about complex problems, and celebrate the joy of creativity.

The exercise was introduced to me by professor of Art Education Charles Garoian at the workshop I organised “Performance Art, Exercises and Untamed Education” at the Art Academy, Tromsø.

If there is any “right” answer, to pee in it would solve the problem. To ask your mother is also a very good suggestion.

Exercise 9 – Thursday 12th of October 2017 “Ask someone else to create performance exercises for you.”

“Ask someone else to create performance exercises for you.”

I had a workshop at the Hollo Symposium at the Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki “Imagining Exercises for the Performance Artist”. I asked the participants a task of creating exercises for me which I can perform during this year. I had printed a calendar with all the months of the year and they wrote exercises, based on my exercises and then place it on a chosen date.

  • One word exercise
  • Exercise on time – can be linked to a special date
  • Go sit somewhere else in the space. Write an exercise on space.
  • For you the most typical exercise for performance art
  • Exercise on body
  • Exercise for the personal
  • Exercise for the political
  • Exercise for the Everyday
  • Exercise for the Playfulness

Exercise 8 – Wednesday 11th of October “Slide”

This exercise is from the dance performance project “Transporteringsdans”   by the artist Martin Slaatto. It is a deck of cards of different playfully ways of “transporting” yourself through space.

 

In my own translation this exercise went like:

“Slide. Slide forward with long, tough and slimy movements. Be tight and light on the foot, but feel still the friction against the floor.”

I was at the Gardermoen airport, moving from one gate at the domestic terminal to another gate at the international terminal. Sliding. The movement was faster then if I was to walk normally. This time I was travelling with no kids, but I felt like a kid. Sliding, feeling the friction. After a while it started to be fun. In the beginning it was embarrassing, but I continued while I was still making sure to not be in the way for the others.