Amsterdam 2 - Who When What Why

WHO WHEN WHAT WHY:

Diana, as we are children growing up in small towns in Indonesia, Croatia, Brazil and Germany, we share two hemispheres. Going global, based in local representations.

Scenarios of our times: mapping our minds out. Posting our brains out.

There are too many voices in the room. Whose voice is it anyway? Vital acts of transfer. Transmission as a part of the paradigms of meaning-making. Meaning no harm to the episteme of performance.

Missing deadlines. Resisting definitions. In constant threat of oversimplification. In battle with appropriation. Lost identities in the realm of creation. Trapped in cultural imagination. Yeast-erday once more. While making choices:

Ephemerality slides in between conclusion.

Creation mindmap -amsterdam2

Scenario - Amsterdam2

Our key term “scenario” draws from Diane Taylor’s writing “The archive and the repertoire”.

Taylor uses the term “scenario” as a meaning-making paradigm, that would allow us to pay attention to the repertoire in its emphasis on the ephemeral character of embodied practice/knowledge (such as spoken language, dance etc.).

Six ways of investigation on social structure and behaviour through the paradigm of scenario are suggested by Taylor:

1. Scenario in the sense of physical location
2. Scenario as embodiment
3. Scenario in the frame/ formulaic structure
4. Scenario in the mode of transmission
5. Scenario as a mode forcing to position ourselves in relation to it
6. Scenario as once-againness, not merely mimetic, reactivation rather than dublcation

There is a paradox in trying to grasp the ephemeral, especially as scholarly works are mostly done through writing (archiving), yet the emphasis on the repertoire would allow us to regain what had been mostly lost in the study of the archive.