(08/23/2009)

Open group

Moderator:Safak Uysal

la.bo.ra.to.ry:
etym. m.lat. laboratorium, m.fr. and lat. laborare, eng. labor

broadly speaking, refers to a place, situation, set of conditions, or the like, which is conducive to experimentation, testing, analysis, research and observation within a given field of study. etymologically, shares roots with the word “labor” which means “work done using the strength and capacity of the body,” and carries the implication of “burden”, “difficulty”, “struggle” and “collective work”. concurrently, refers to the process of giving birth to a baby from when the contractions start to the baby’s delivery, or the time taken for this process.

[LABORATUAR]
PERFORMANCE ARTS RESEARCH AND PROJECT LAB

• is a collaborative project ensemble, focusing on visual and performing arts;
• aims at producing on- and off-stage experimental performance work, perpetually questioning the definition of “dance” and “theatre”, along with these disciplines’ boundaries and their accepted means of creation;
• basically feeds upon theory, methodology, tools, technique and material from contemporary dance, physical theatre, performance art, architecture, film & video, design and literature, along with post-structuralist theory and the possibilities provided by “new media” technologies.

[laboratuar] consists not of positions but people; favors a non-hierarchical structure and an open system in terms of operation; consists of a resident core group, [corpus], and collaborates with partners on a project basis.

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