camerabodyeye workshop
camerabodyeye at dieBörse during Tanzrauschen Festival Wuppertal
November 21-22, 2019
experience description
Our joint camerabodyeye (cbe) video-performance practice is intrinsically performative, for we are constantly highlighting and questioning the context and conditions that inform the work.
This term (cbe) addresses and encompasses
*the body of the camera as an animated and relational object
*the hybrid body that gets created through the dialogue between the body of the camera and human bodies in the process of filming
*the filming event
We are interested in developing ways of filming and relating to the body of the camera that enable for something else to emerge than the trope of oppression and objectification of the filmic subject. How can agency be ethically distributed amongst the camera operator, the camera body and the filmic subject, whether human or non-human? How can it be a practice of consensual intimacy? Through the camerabodyeye we practice embodied thinking and reflect upon our sensorial and sensual ways of being in the world.
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camerabodyeye at Egomio Cultural Center, Nicosa, Cyprus
January 6, 2017
camerabodyeye at HZT,Berlin
April 23 & 24, 2016
Description
The “camerabodyeye workshop” is part of a collaborative work process initiated and led by Camille Jemlen and florence freitag (also known together as transatlanticbirdscrew).
In this workshop, we will guide participants through a series of individual, one-on-one and collective experiments with and without filming devices while reflecting together upon the relationship between the human body and video recording technology. We will facilitate group conversations about what participants experience(d) through their embodied exploration of what we call the ‘camerabodyeye’.
The “camerabodyeye” is a concept that addresses the complex relationship between a camera and a human body in the act of seeing and filming. The human gaze and the camera gaze hold common abilities, but also differences in the way they perceive, frame and record the real. We are interested in what the coupling of our bodies with handheld camera bodies produces in terms of a visual and general physical/sensorial experience.
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