Greta Katharina Klein
Chun Shing Au
Carmen Lee
Levin Eichert
RESEARCH
AUDIENCE
RELATIONSHIP OF WATER AND PROTESTS
EXPLORING WATER
DOCUMENTATION
- What are the modes of research we want to employ? A playful mode and a reflective mode.
- For what audience do we want to work? Strangers on the street and people that are based where we work.
- How do we want to work with these audiences? We want to establish formats to be in touch with our target groups during the research phase.
- How can our audiences meet us? As workshop participants, as co-creators, as protestors, as outside eyes.
- Exploring the materiality of water.
- Water interacting with buildings.
- Writing with water.
- Performativity of water.
- Erasing water? Bunsen burner, Hair dryer.
- Will water really disappear? “Seeding” water.
- Interaction of light and water.
- Keeping Hong Kong in the back of our minds.
- How do protests end? How does water evaporate, sicker into the ground?
- How was water used as a metaphor in the protest?
- Something antagonistic, opposing, chasing each other, competing, policing, …
- We are taking care of documenting this process to an extent where the documentation itself is a part of the artistic research (documentation connected to protests, documentation as a tool to switch up structures of decision making and responsibility in the collective, documentation in part also beyond technical devices).
EXPLORING WATER
MOVING FORWARD _ THIS IS A COLLECTION OF QUESTIONS AND NOTES THAT WE ARE TAKING INTO
CONSIDERATION BY MOVING INTO THE NEXT RESEARCH PHASE.
PREVIOUS WORK: https://www.theatredupoulet.com/bewatermyfriend2023
This research proposal is based on our previous research project, "Be Water, My Friend" in which we explored water as a material through a performance employing audience-participation in Prague. This project was based on a thematic frame: The material of water was connected to the experiences of protesters in HongKong.
This new research phase both is and is not about the Hong Kong protest. We want to open up metaphors and allow for more ambiguity. We are interested in working with connotations of political struggle while also creating room for joy. It is important for us to notice that the political and ludic qualities of this research are not in opposition.
- Denotation of water as something environmentally coded.
- Researching protest techniques and how to contextualize them in artistic contexts, the aesthetics of protests.
- Performativity of protests/rituals.
- Performative strategies of police employed against protesters.
- Strategies and symbols by protesters and police.
- Singing as a protest technique.
- Something completely different: Loss --> Losing --> A country, a person.
- Reenactment and preenactment. (relationship to “real protests”)
- Perspektive? To play with backlash.
MOVING FORWARD _ THIS IS A COLLECTION OF QUESTIONS AND NOTES THAT WE ARE not TAKING INTO
CONSIDERATION BY MOVING INTO THE NEXT RESEARCH PHASE.
FOCUSSING: WHAT THIS RESEARCH IS NOT ABOUT
How were your encounters with the police?
Are you silenced?
When do you feel silenced?
Is violence ever justified? When?
What do you want to ask the others?
What is a beautiful memory of you fighting for something / in a protest?
What does protest mean for you?
Who’s the author?
What is an alternative way of protesting?
Do you have a protest strategy?
What should we prepare for future protests?
How do you make yourself invisible?
Are you pro protest? Why / why not?
Are you political?
How fast can you run?
Have you walked away from a conflict? If yes, leave your footprint here.
When you see the police will you run or will you pretend nothing happened?
What do you want to fight for?
What does it mean to be political?
How do you deal with people who have a different political idea from you?
QUESTIONS WE ASKED OURSELVES & OTHERS IN OUR RECENT WORK
WE WANT TO KEEP THOSE QUESTIONS IN MIND BY MOVING FORWARD
CONCEPT BOARD
FOCUSSING: WHAT THIS RESEARCH IS NOT ABOUT