Objects invite me to - Butoh composition arranged by Yuka Negaro @ Laban Conservatoire, 2019
Performers / Practitioners: Mira Hirtz, Clare Brzezicki, Andrada Jichici, Mayson Fung, Frieda Luk and Francesca Kamil
Franz Kafka observed that: You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (1918, in Claxton, 1997, p. 175)
"‘How Can Objects Choreograph Me? Perception of Object and Body’ by Yuka Negoro sets out to discover unknown movements, forms and methods of working by surrendering to objects. Through an interest in somatic approaches, the focus of the research moved on to altering perception of objects and of the body through attention, passivity and sensitivity.
This research project challenges anthropocentric assumptions about familiar objects such as: “everything is the object to control and use and we are the subject with a desire to satisfy.” (Dreyfus, 1987) This work endeavours to disrupt this hierarchy and reveal the expressivity of banal objects.
Drawing on thinkers and practitioners such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Tim Ingold, Jane Bennet, Brian Massumi and Tatsumi Hijikata who all share an interest in the philosophy of immanence, this practice treats the body and objects equally as vital matter. Referencing the work of a performer Allan Kaprow and the theory of Tim Ingold, the practice of attention develops in everyday environments.
Through a series of investigations and a final performance three proposals emerged. Firstly, a shift of perception requires surrendering to attention itself. Then, passivity reveals the vitality of matter, recalling my affinity with objects and the world. Finally, the seeds of dance are in the everyday."
-copright Yuka Negaro 2019
Objects invite me to - Butoh composition arranged by Yuka Negaro @ Laban Conservatoire, 2019
Performers / Practitioners: Mira Hirtz, Clare Brzezicki, Andrada Jichici, Mayson Fung, Frieda Luk and Francesca Kamil
Franz Kafka observed that: You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (1918, in Claxton, 1997, p. 175)
"‘How Can Objects Choreograph Me? Perception of Object and Body’ by Yuka Negoro sets out to discover unknown movements, forms and methods of working by surrendering to objects. Through an interest in somatic approaches, the focus of the research moved on to altering perception of objects and of the body through attention, passivity and sensitivity.
This research project challenges anthropocentric assumptions about familiar objects such as: “everything is the object to control and use and we are the subject with a desire to satisfy.” (Dreyfus, 1987) This work endeavours to disrupt this hierarchy and reveal the expressivity of banal objects.
Drawing on thinkers and practitioners such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Tim Ingold, Jane Bennet, Brian Massumi and Tatsumi Hijikata who all share an interest in the philosophy of immanence, this practice treats the body and objects equally as vital matter. Referencing the work of a performer Allan Kaprow and the theory of Tim Ingold, the practice of attention develops in everyday environments.
Through a series of investigations and a final performance three proposals emerged. Firstly, a shift of perception requires surrendering to attention itself. Then, passivity reveals the vitality of matter, recalling my affinity with objects and the world. Finally, the seeds of dance are in the everyday."
-copright Yuka Negaro 2019