MODE05

On Saturday, March 19th, the last day of MODE05, Irit Rogoff joined for a lecture on "Academy as Potentiality". If you want to see the lecture, download the torrent file in order start the actual transfer of the video (120MB).

The mode05 - 'meeting on dance education 2005' - has taken place from 13th-19th of March at fabrik Potsdam. To get an insight into the working process and participate in the discussions please check out the wiki pages at mode05 wiki

During the discussions in Mode05 part of the group used a term that might be a little bit difficult to understand. I here submit a text by Toni Negri where he draws out a fundamental definition of "multitude". Multitude has comed to be a rather controversial term due the use of it in the book which Toni Negri and Micheal Heart published some couple of years a go "Empire".

as a outstanding -online-observer- I am a bit confused hat the open public session was cancelled today.its a pitty I cannot meet you guys first of all and exchange aswell my thoughts,ideas,opinions,questions,etc...#
looking forward reading more about the process.........

Collectivity is something that takes place as we arbitrarily gather to take part in different forms of cultural activity such as looking at art.

In German there is an expression, "Schule machen", which literally translated means "to make school".

It's really trixy to make this songs into the thing here so I just attach a song that you can find somewhere on the net, use Limewire or similar.

As you may have realized when visiting our website, there has not been a continuous feeding-in of content. Before the start, the team had decided to first leave the text developments within an intranet before they get edited and mirrored onto the public site. In doing so, we would like to allow the materials to mature with time, so that they can develop a clear structure.

I just observed the striking discrepancy between the intensity of the discussions inside our think-tank and its accessibility for the outside world. The blog and the wiki turned out to be no appropriate tools to provide an insight into the processes happening here. So we're just figuring out a way to edit and transmit the enormous amount of material produced in here. Please be patient. It's not about ignorance or exclusivity, rather a question of how to get hold of a very intense process in a productive bubble.

with starting to present the arguments the smaller groups have raised in seperated sessions to each other the thing starts to become more to the point. the plenary sessions up to now end up a bit too much in compromising or missing each others arguments on purpose if this would create a potential of confrontation (for my taste). working out something / making choices and presenting them as well as the leftouts is pointing at the gaps and differences and attitudes more precisely. this should not be a lesson in compromising but a work out of... maybe (and hopefully) everybody here is looking and going for something else.