Inner//Outer #3/3

The third and final in a series of workshops bringing together Skinner Releasing Technique and live drawing. Led by Franziska Böhm.

machinaloci space is pleased to host the third and final workshop in a series bringing together Skinner Releasing Technique and live drawing, led by Franziska Böhm. These workshops explore collaborative processes of sense and image making, the cultivation of the felt sense and a dialogue with air through breath, movement, sound and drawing.

In the first part of the workshop, we will focus on breath using Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), moving while wearing automatic tracing tools which curiously resemble eggs. We will then trace the marks made in the device onto sheets of paper. Guided by a process of how image meets sensation, we will re-enter into expressing this image in sound, movement, language and/or mark-making to collectively create an instantaneous composition within an image and sense-based landscape, perhaps finding ourselves transformed into eggs, plants, streams of energies or...?

In the second half, participants will be invited to shift between tracing their 'egg pattern', kinaesthetic memories, images and the energetic pathways, swirls, sounds and lines generated when drawing during a performance by Duo Oko Mar. This kind of drawing process leans toward live drawing rather than life drawing, tracing one’s own and the performers vitality and presence in relation with each other.

We will experiment with drawing using:

• automatic tracing tools that we use in the first part
• making marks with thread and red ink
• felt pen and any other reds you would like to bring

Wearing costumes by Jacob Elliott Roters, Duo Oko Mar will perform Touching in Red, a multidisciplinary performance utilising voice, flute, loop station, and movement.

During the piece, a pulse is traced through trajectories of the microphone, seeking different acoustic qualities. Moving closer and drawing further away, the recording tool plays with what the space gives, exploring where sound emerges, vanishes, and expands. How does space affect the recording of a pulse?

Touching in Red is part of a wider body of work in which Oko Mar explores the colour red and its generative influence on movement, sound, and space.