Symprovisation on Art and Empathy & A Lived Practice, Erik Hagoort in Chicago

MFA tutor Erik Hagoort is in Chicago for the following events;

Symprovisation on Art and Empathy:

a Public Rehearsal followed by a Private Performance 

November 5, 2014

Sector 2337, Chicago IL

Featuring Kirsten Leenaars, Jason Pallas, Caroline Picard, Tricia Van Eck, and Erik Hagoort

On the evening of Wednesday November 5th, five people met privately at Sector 2337 for an improvisatory conversation on art and empathy. 

Prior to this symprovisation (symposium + improvisation) a rehearsal took place from 3 to 6 pm. This rehearsal was open to the public. 

Don’t ask questions, don’t give answers. Those two conditions guided the symprovisation. 

During the afternoon the five participants practiced to speak according to those conditions, with which they approached the theme of art and empathy. 

As the gallery closed at 6pm, the symprovisation was created privately, behind closed doors; the piece was recorded and soon will be distributed via digital recording, and only then become accessible to the public.

 

For conversational directives and more about the participants, see:

Symprovisation–directives_and_bio’s.pdf

Concept: Erik Hagoort

Thanks to Sector 2337 for hosting the event.

Thanks to Threads etc. for throw rug assistance!

And thanks for support by:

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

University Antwerp

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A Lived Practice

November 7, 2014

Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street, 7th floor

Chicago IL

Kirsten Leenaars and Erik Hagoort will set up a join-in conversation on art and empathy during one of the afternoon “Breakout Discussions”, 2.30-4pm, as part of the ‘A Lived Practice’ symposium. 

‘A Lived Practice’ is an initiative of Mary Jane Jacob for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

http://blogs.saic.edu/alivedpractice/a-lived-practice-symposium/

Symprovisation – Antwerp, Belgium

Symprovisation                                                                                                                 ExtraCity, Antwerp  –  Period: 17-20 April, 2012

Concept and tutors:                                                                                                            Nico Dockx, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp                                                            Erik Hagoort, AKV| St. Joost, Den Bosch/Breda

How to improvise on a symposium?

This question became practice during a four day ongoing event at ExtraCity. Participants of the master courses of St. Lucas, Artesis, and AKV/St. Joost worked together in finding out what “symprovising” could be.

Let’s approach theoretical reflection through improvising. Trying to reflect and work on the spot: à l’improviste; using skills, work, procedures, ideas, texts, inventions, and coincidence.

The experiment was rounded up during a final presentation of results, stories, and thoughts with spotlighted spiderwebs, dance, collages, broken walls, and sadly a piece of Remy’s finger cut off.

With: Kasper Bosmans, Elsbeth Ciesluk, Remy Habets, Pim Kersten, Theodora Kotsi, Saori Kuno, Raphael Langmair, Tanya Long, Piotr Piskozub, Nelleke Schiere, Anna Stergiou, Timothy Van de Laar.

Remy Habets demolished the cardboard wall of ExtraCity’s upper floor.

Mixed interventions by Tanya Long (paint on wall) and Nelleke Schiere (stick in the window).

And lots of lunches

2010: Chicago

Adriel van Drimmelen, Mari Stoel, Dominique Teufen, Thomas I’Anson, Ian de Ruiter, Emy de Rooij, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Lorelinde Verhees, Kiki Cheng, Janeke Kornet, Daniele Marx, Medhi-Georges Lahlou, Bas van den Hurk, George Korsmit, Saskia Janssen, Marjolijn Dijkmen and Erik Hagoort.

Adriel van Drimmelen, Mari Stoel, Dominique Teufen, Thomas I’Anson, Ian de Ruiter, Emy de Rooij, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Lorelinde Verhees, Kiki Cheng, Janeke Kornet, Daniele Marx, Medhi-Georges Lahlou, Bas van den Hurk, George Korsmit, Saskia Janssen, Marjolijn Dijkmen and Erik Hagoort.

On April 22 2010, participating artists and advisors from the MFA programme at AKV | St. Joost set off for Chicago to take part in Version 10 Chicago – Infrastructures and Territories, narrowly avoiding the chaos caused by the Europe wide grounding of flights in and out of the continent due to invisible clouds of ash eminating from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokul volcano.

For two weeks we were involved in a variety of activities. The time spent in Chicago was a rewarding experience for everyone involved and i personally had great time (Thomas)! A very special thanks to Ed, Rachael and Maria Marszewski , Emily Clayton, the amazing team and all the volunteers at Version, SAIC, AKV St. Joost, Ad van Rosmalen, Bas van den Hurk for conceiving the trip and to Bas van den Hurk, George Korsmit, Saskia Janssen, Marjolijn Dijkmen and Erik Hagoort for all their help and advice.

Please visit the external site MFA Trip Chicago to see what happened!