Art Environment Action! Workshop Scores

Participants created and performed the following SCORES:

1. Warm up first to get everyone going and moving.
2. Take more pictures of each landscape and create a collage/interpretation after.  Or take an element from each vista and write how you feel.  How does each aspect of the environment evoke your feelings?
3. I really liked how we got our own chance to do our own thing in little groups and interpret the different elements of each landscape so it wasn’t just following the leader.
   —Anna

1. In trios
   Stand back to back
   Close your eyes
   Listen to what is around you
   Listen to what you are touching
   Listen to the Breath of Three
   Feel the balance of Three shifting
   Let the Three pull you toward curiosity
   PlayC  Shift “leader” and move to new curiosityB  Start back at A and go through to CB  Again, start back at A and go through to C—Jackie

1. Start at a liminal edge.
2. Explore with internal and external listening.
3. Walk around the contours
4. Collaborate: building, witness, build, witness, talk, rest
   —Jennifer

1. Photograph. Collage
2. Lay on your back and listen to sounds.
3. Map them.
4. Split up individually in different directions for 15 minutes.  Find an object, regroup, and present a story about your object.
   —Jonathan

1. Just before dawn, begin by looking at a point on the horizon opposite the sun.
2. As the sun rises, squint your eyes so the level of light in your view remains constant.
3. When you sense the light has stopped changing, listen for the sound farthest from you.  Try to hold onto that sound for 5 minutes.
4. Then, slowly direct your attention to listening to the next closest sound and next closest until you are listening to a sound in your own body.
   —Kate

1. Shake feet freely sitting on a chair.
2. Stand up straight.  Let your shoulders sink in
3. Move your hands, pressing against each other, the left first, then the right leading
4. Start again from whatever point you want.
   —Martin

1. Find a place which draws you.
2. Take the time to sense what the place makes you want to do.
3. Do it.
4. Treat your human collaborators the same as the place and vice versa.
   —Nika

1. In pairs or trios.  Walk.  When the topography shifts underfoot, shift the part of your body that bears weight.  Do not repeat the weight bearing surface.  Support each other, if needed.
2. Use your breath and/or sound to create an itinerary or map for someone else to follow
3. Follow the path of an animal.  Use it as your leader
   —Radhika

1. Choose a moving object (leaf, grass, etc.).  Breathe in and out – inhale and exhale with its movement for 5 minutes.
2. Create a contour line drawing of this objects
3. Make this contour line drawing by walking in the space.
   —Rebecca

1. Mime the shapes made by trees with your own limbs – then have a partner mimic you without looking at the original brances.
2. Commit to memory the pattern of a tree’s bark, using only touch.  Draw the bark using this sensory experience as a guide.
3. Create a distinctive marker using elements you find on the ground.
4. Chart a topography with your feet.
   —Virginia

1. Start running along the landscape for a few minutes.  Then stop and listen to your breath and body.  Stop to listen to your surroundings.
2. Find someone you are uncomfortable with or do not know to pair up for this activity.  Lead them around blindfolded and let them navigate by touch and sound.
3. After the activities above, do a touch exercise where you all sit with your backs to each other and slowly stand up.  What sort of feelings/sensations do you have?
4. Find something in the environment that seems mundane in real life but extraordinary in the environment.  Trace the object and take it with you if you can.
   —Zoya