Everything that we do is performative. Every day, we dive into tiny, personal rituals and create mini performances without fully realising it. During this session, we’ll reflect on how to approach life with fuller self-awareness and peace, especially moments of discomfort and trouble, by including performance art in day-to-day living.

In this first session from The Convivial, we will:

• Open the meeting with the Abramovic Method opening sequence, to ground ourselves and land in the space

• Discuss the definition and meaning behind ‘Performance Art’ in a contemporary art and daily life context, asking ourselves where it starts and ends; what its place in the world and how we understand it on a personal level

• Speak about ‘pain’ and ‘discomfort’, our experience of it, its place in culture and different spiritual practices (sacred pain), and its relation to the performance art method  

• Engage in performative tasks that will include working with stillness, gentle movement, and repetition, which will help us to disengage the brain and enter a felt-perception experience, regulate the nervous system, alchemize the discomfort, and shift the attention into an endless ocean of creative possibilities that we are at the very core

• Have a small Q&A at the end of the session

For the session, please bring a small object of your choice. 

Speaker
agata flaminika is a multidisciplinary performance artist, life model and workshop facilitator trained in the Abramovic method under the Marina Abramovic Institute. She’s currently completing a master’s degree in Fine Art at Falmouth University, exploring the relationship between performance, pain, and self; using 'workshop' as a research method. Recent work includes working as a re-performer for Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Royal Academy of Art in London, a performance 'from a sacred place' selected for the International Video performance Exhibition MUESTRA DISLOCADA held in different venues across the Americas, and the upcoming ‘baba yaga with her cradle, re-imagined’ created for a group show CREATURES at the Gwithti An Pystri in Falmouth.

Please visit her Instagram @alchemyoftheprocess for more info.