Emily Welther
dance, performance, research
Dramaturgical Practices and Making Public
Master of Performance Practices
ArtEZ, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Experiments in Spectatorship
and that which is not seen
I invite you, the spectator,
to be aware, soft and silent
as you change the location
of your hand, your eye, your body.
I invite you to suspend the idea
of the internal and the external,
and experience what moves.
Below are links
to 4 experiments.
Read
through them all, then choose 3 to participate in.
After you have completed 3, please return to the questionaire.
Overlapping
live-ness
This live performance overlaps the now-ness of a body in its surroundings and the now-ness of you in your surroundings,
as we inhale and exhale, keep and lose attention.
I invite you to watch either the
full half-hour
or to switch in and out between the other experiments.
I invite you to be aware of your body and where you are while watching.
This video has currently been removed from YouTube. Please click here for another version:
A moves
a body limbs and
sculpt space Mysterious lurking live and and live.
mouth
as a through which enters transforms and the location of determines redness
portal / passage / poppy
This experiment is one attempt to internalize nature. You will need to open the link preferably on your phone, although a laptop will do. Find a window to stand with your back towards so that the screen reflects the window. Play the video in full screen. Let your eyes move between watching the reflection and watching the video. Move and tilt your phone or laptop, move and tilt your body. Play with softening your eyes to watch both reflection and video at the same time.
This virtual exhibit looks into the visual potential of menstrual blood. It is an experience of exposure as a result of coordinating hand and eye movements. By adjusting the mouse or fingers on the touch pad, you can change location and proximity to the photographs.
I invite you to let the movement of your eyes and your hands guide your gaze, and to let what you see, move you.
muse um
Expelled space
the release explore how generate after it leaves especially when seen
Rhythmic body
traverses landscape
don't tell me to go
mind give my feet time porous maneuvering topography until I still
This soundtrack is a collage of a series of walks taken in different places. Listen to this with headphones. Find a comfortable position to sit or lie down in for the duration of this soundtrack, about 7 minutes. Stay as still as possible in this position while you listen. Bring your attention to the details in the soundtrack and observe what moves in you.
silent walk