FUTURE GESTURES

March 11th-13th, 19th @ the Centre for Contemporary Art

UPDATE: March 19th workshop cancelled due to COVID. The documentation of the process is postponed to a later instalment.

FREE (but ticketed) @ the Centre for Contemporary Arts.
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FUTURE GESTURES- Created by Lillian Ross-Millard

Developed alongside artist’s creation period leading to moving image work BRIGHT FUTURES.

Curated by Laura van der Tas

Climate change. Zombies. Paying the rent at the end of the month. How do our anxieties about the future—whether imminently catastrophic, fantastical or mundane—play out in our bodies? Do we carry traces of these vivid daydreams in our physical movements? Is the way we move a direct product of the future?

FUTURE GESTURES is a new participatory artwork comprised of a series of physical workshops designed to assess contemporary mentalities towards the future.

Lillian Ross-Millard has designed a 4-hour long workshop which focuses on the ways we physically prepare for the future in the short and long-term by using the information and experience stored in our bodies.

You can expect a physical warm-up, writing exercises, and a method of aleatory choreography. Breaks will be scheduled.

By the end of the workshop, you will have developed a short, choreographed sequence, which will serve as a consolidated physical expression of an emotional experience of the future.

You are invited to have your gesture documented, contributing to a visual database that will be presented as a conceptual moving image work.
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