At these geographic coordinates, two lines that cross each other, we will continue the meeting started in Beirut in June 2007 during the project Sites of Imagination by the artists Idoia Zabaleta, Ixiar Rozas, Germán Jáuregui, Leo Castro and the Lebanese artist collective Zoukak. As reciprocal hosts, L'animal a l'esquena will welcome Zoukak in residence. Moare Danza and Periferiak collaborate in this project.

Saïd Ait El Moumen (Marrakech) will come to L'animal a l'esquena to work on the individual facets of religion and on the question of how much this can leave traces in the human body. Through physical and verbal acts, using dance as their instrument, three dancers will talk about their respective religions and will place themselves in the situation of the other artists in relation to their religious practices.

Encounters between creative and theoretical practice.

L'animal a l'esquena, in collaboration with Scott de Lahunta, is inviting proposals by the different artistic teams of Absent Interfaces for individual meetings with 'expert' theoretical practitioners. The basic idea is to develop a series of 'input' sessions between artists/practitioners and theoreticians/scholars on a public frame. However the choice of 'expert' is left up to the individual artist (or collaborative team). The aim is an encounter with new information from a discipline that might inform and/ or interfere, stimulate and/ or confront the artists practice. The specific content area should fit inside the frame of Absent Interfaces.

L'animal a l'esquena fosters other ways of seeing in which tradition, thought and practice flow together in a space of reflection and exhibition about the body and its contexts. Toni Serra will coordinate this dialogue with L'animal a l'esquena.

Public concerts at 8 p.m. at L'animal a l'esquena:
- Wednesday October 8th, with Mohammed El Bouzidi (Marrakech): Gnawa ritual and music.
- Friday October 10th, with Oruç Guvenç (Turkey): Sufi and shamanic dance.

Beliz Demircioglu Cihandide, multimedia artist/choreographer, will work with researcher/curator Aylin Kalem and a dancer. Both artists are Turkish and will work on a dance piece in progress about looking at a deep cut. The piece concentrates on looking at the things that don't seem to be missing but actually are. The way to bind what seems only bonded on the surface is to cut even deeper. During the residence different possible ways of creating metaphors will be experimented through movement, real surgery videos, text and sound. This performance will be premiered at the Bodig 2008 Istanbul Festival.
This residency is part of the Absent Interfaces Project 2008-2010.

www.bodig.org

Andrea Bozic, Croatian choreographer, worked with Austrian video artist Julia Willms and Serbian music composer Robert Pravda on the initial research for Nothing Can Surprise Us - a performance that will be premiered at the Gasthuis/Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam in June 2008 with further performances in autumn of the same year. For this project they dealt with predicting the future and preparing for it by rehearsing possible future catastrophic scenarios. These scenarios were taken from a number of films, then embodied and performed live. Bozic, Pravda and Willms worked at L'animal a l'escena researching how to deal with the unpredictable and unimaginable, and what happens to it when staged in a theatrical setting.

This residency was part of the Absent Interfaces Project 2008-2010.

http://www.sdela.dds.nl/absentinterfaces

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