MODE05

Notes for an Art School, the first publication of Manifesta 6 School Books was launched in Nicosia, Cyprus on Friday, 20 January 2006.

From 31 July to 13 August fabrik Potsdam offers two work weeks for artists who define their work as based on or resulting in dance/choreography.

"Summer University" [=SU] is a project initiated in the first meeting held in PAF in December 25-31 by a number of practitioners (artists, theoreticians, cultural workers etc.) who gathered for the first time in the house in St. Erme in order to create PAF.

"The Bazaar in the Cathedral" is one concrete proposal for the creation of a specific platform or context: the PAF, Performing Arts Forum. This new forum is located in a village nearby Reims, France, and has been proposed as an artist-created platform, which is to be shaped according to its users' desires.

here is an article about a text by portugese choreographer Joao Fiadeiro published in mouvement.net on 06-10-05. it speaks very concretely about the cultural-political situation for performance arts in portugal, but a lot of the aspects he mentions are applicable to the european landscape.

Today we had one of our regular meetings at fabrik Potsdam; Sabine, Martin and me discussing and projecting what might happen in two and a half weeks when we're all together for mode05. Kind of hard... how to prepare an open process, knowing that all meaning and fixations are up to the process itself and the energy of 30 people starting a one week exploration on the issue of dance/choreography education?

In reference to Pirkko's text about the potential of using weblogs within education I'd like to refer to an educational model I came across during the mode05 preparations and which I think is quite interesting - not just in its structure, but also in how internet technology is used to make a process of research and knowledge production transparent and useful for other people.