“Катедралата на тялото, тялото на сянката” е четвърти сборник с поезия на Ясен Василев след “Сляп виси безкрая” (2009, изд. Хермес, награда за дебютен ръкопис; онлайн версия: Литературен клуб), “Андрогин”(2011, изд. Пергамент, литературна награда на Шуменския университет; онлайн версия: Литературен клуб) и “#lonelinessindex” (2015, само онлайн версия: Литературен клуб). Сборникът съдържа текстове, писани в периода 2015 и 2020, разделени в две части, които продължават и преработват част от темите от предишните книги, но тръгват и в нова посока. Повлияни от текстове на съвременни автори като Марина Грижинич, Хито Щайрел, Бет Бахман, Ахиле Мбембе, Марк Фишър, Мортен Шпонгберг и други, поетичните текстове се отказват от самоизразяването, елиминират красотата на поетичния език и ги заместват с груба и сурова образност, свързана с множеството кризи на глобалния свят, в който живеем.
a collaboration with HK artist Ip Wai Lung, developed in the frame of ADAM artist lab supported by Taipei Performing Arts Center and Taipei Arts Festival
Date: Aug 18
Time: 11:00
Meeting point: NTU Main Library
End of silent march: Gongguan underpass
Dress code: black
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Some possible questions to address:
What is a community in the context of protest movements?
To what extent it is self-described and to what extent it is an imposed description?
Does visibility empower us or make us more vulnerable?
What’s the power in being unmarked?
How can artists be information brokers between echo chambers?
How networked discontent creates leaderless movements?
How to swap the traditional positions of strategy and tactics between leaders and crowds?
How to subvert social media platforms from mode of control into tools of emancipation?
How to make visible different types of non-physical violence?
What can bodies and movement do in public space and what’s the role of artists?
NUTRICULA is a growing archive which invites performers from different backgrounds to activate a structure for a physical solo.
The work intends to bring performers to a specific state-of-mind by inviting them to follow simple rules – 1. explore the different body parts as objects separate from their function 2. test their limits.
Initially, a collaboration with Kwame Boafo, a Ghanaian performance artist, the collaboration faced obstacles because of visa and passport issues in both China and the EU. More here／https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MqWQMEEYE&t=1s
What interests me in the re-production of this work is the tension between global and local within the performer’s body, the way the socio-political background and the biography are informing the work and the way the performer claims space within the strict concept.
The resulting archive is a rejection of the capitalist imperative of constant production of new material instead replaced by recycling of the same form in a variety of versions, shaped by the identity of each collaborator.
In the process we are uncovering how a global economic system shapes the way we live, produce and reproduce and how we react to it on a local level, limited by our own bodies.
I am looking for both professional and non-professional actors, dancers and performers interested to go through a 3-day introduction workshop of the working method and potentially make their own versions of the work in two full weeks of rehearsal.
The full rehearsals will be remunerated but the piece does not intend to reach “a production”.
For more info or further questions visit／https://yassenvasilev.wordpress.com/ or contact us at vassilev.yassen@gmail.com & lilyliu@artistvillage.org
Baopuzi is an Ancient Chinese Alchemical text, separated in two parts – Inner (dealing with immortality and alchemy; consisting of 20 chapters or “scrolls”) and Outer (dealing with politics and society, consisting of 52 chapters or “scrolls”).
Initiated by the artist in residence playwright Yasen Vasilev we are setting up a study group to read and discuss the text on the following dates
NUTRICULA е концепция за солов физически пърформанс на драматурга Ясен Василев в сътрудничество с поредица от изпълнители, всеки от които променя структурата на работата на база на своите биография и социално-политически контекст. Поредицата от версии наблюдава как една глобална система регулира начините, по които живеем, произвеждаме и се възпроизвеждаме и как й отговаряме на локално ниво, ограничени от собствените си тела. Концепцията подлага изпълнителя на интензивно физическо натоварване, което се стреми да изпита и преосмисли границите и функциите на частите на тялото.
NUTRICULA е създаден с подкрепата на Minsheng Museum и Шанхайската театрална академия в Китай, Аtalaia Artes Performativas в Португалия, Arts Printing House в Литва и The Blank Contemporary Art в Италия.
В селекцията на фестивала OUT NOW 2017 в Бремен, Германия и в шортлиста на Arte Laguna Prize 2018 във Венеция, Италия в категория пърформанс.
Джугас Кунсманас(1994) е актьор, танцьор и изпълнител от Каунас, Литва. Завършва Vytautas Magnus Univerity в Каунас и специализира в цирковото училище Flic в Торино. Част от театралната компания Teatronas.
NUTRICULA is a concept of solo physical performance by playwright Yasen Vasilev in collaboration with a series of performers, each of them changing the structure of the work based on his biography and socio-political context. The series of versions monitors how a global system regulates the ways in which we live, produce and reproduce and how we respond to it locally, limited by our own bodies. The concept subjects the performer to an intense physical effort that aims to test and reconsider the limits and functions of body parts.
NUTRICULA was created with the support of Minsheng Museum and Shanghai Theatrical Academy in China, Attalia Artes Performativas in Portugal, Arts Printing House in Lithuania and The Blank Contemporary Art in Italy.
In the selection of the OUT NOW 2017 Festival in Bremen, Germany and in the shorts of the Arte Laguna Prize 2018 in Venice, Italy, in performance category.
Dziugas Kunsmanas(1994) is an actor, dancer and performer from Kaunas, Lithuania. He graduated from the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and specializes in the Flic circus school in Turin. Part of the theatre company Teatronas.
