Extract from: ‘Typing as a kind of dancing’
Send to: Everyone in Meeting
11:32:49: fuzzy
11:32:56: chewing
11:32:56: feeling
11:32:59: breath
11:33:00: Feeling hot
11:33:02: warm
11:34:34: typing typing tap tap tap
11:34:38: lower back
11:34:41: lower
11:34:42: swirling on the keyboard
11:34:48: Ground lowering
11:36:41: typing as a kind of dancing
11:38:26: button presing
11:38:26: pres sing
11:38:29: imagine if
11:38:32: down
11:38:33: Imagining the body
11:38:34: down
11:38:40: imagingng the body as a site of wisdom
11:43:01: again and again
11:43:03: repeat
11:43:06: repeat
11:43:08: brush it
11:43:08: repeat
11:43:46: is the world moving or are we
11:43:49: No waves
11:43:51: on land now and walking
11:44:05: Boggy ground
11:44:13: sticky
11:44:14: sucking
11:44:25: slippy
11:44:38: ice skating
11:47:50: computer very loud
11:47:59: Computer whirring
11:48:01: whirring
11:48:04: Can we move a sound?
11:50:11: show me your favourite bit of your body
11:51:52: Imagining getting wetter and wetter
11:51:57: front the top of the head down
11:52:30: floating in water
11:53:26: imagine ceiling is top of water
11:54:59: stillness
11:55:33: can we ever be still when we’re breathing
11:55:42: Can we ever be still if all our cells keep moving
11:55:46: are all of your cells moving?
11:56:06: Can you move all of your cells in the same direction at once?
11:56:41: We never stop blinking
11:56:43: too much breathing
11:56:49: heart beating
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Adapting to the online space in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic,‘Typing as a kind of dancing’ is one of several outcomes of ‘Reading the Room’- a movement-research project exploring the video call as a site of performance.
Using the chatbox function on Zoom, we investigated how text might act as a score for movement, and in turn, how this chatbox dialogue becomes a form of movement in itself.
‘Reading the Room’ consisted of 6 sessions over 5 months (February - June 2021). Led by Alexandra Davenport with Amelia Tan, Kirstin Halliday, Rachel Coleman & Sara Stenbæk.
摘自〈打字作為一種舞蹈〉
傳送給：在會議中的每個人
11:32:49: 隱隱約約
11:32:56: 咀嚼
11:32:56: 感受
11:32:59: 鼻息
11:33:00: 感覺熱
11:33:02: 溫暖
11:34:34: 打字 打字 輕敲 輕敲 輕敲
11:34:38: 下背部
11:34:41: 再低一點
11:34:42: 在鍵盤上旋轉
11:34:48: 比地面再低一點
11:36:41: 打字作為一種舞蹈
11:38:26: 按鈕 presing
11:38:26: pres sing
11:38:29: 想像 如果
11:38:32: 向下
11:38:33: 想像身體
11:38:34: 向下
11:38:40: 把身體想像成一個智慧的場域
11:43:01: 一次又一次地
11:43:03: 重複
11:43:06: 重複
11:43:08: 輕觸它
11:43:08: 重複
11:43:46: 是世界在移動還是我們
11:43:49: 沒有波瀾
11:43:51: 現在在路面上行走
11:44:05: 沼澤的路面
11:44:13: 黏黏的
11:44:14: 糟透了
11:44:25:滑溜溜的
11:44:38:溜冰
11:47:50: 電腦聲音很大
11:47:59: 電腦的呼呼聲
11:48:01: 呼呼聲
11:48:04: 我們可以移動聲音嗎？
11:50:11: 秀出身體中你最愛的部位
11:51:52: 想像變得愈來愈濕潤
11:51:57: 頭頂向下
11:52:30: 漂浮在水之中
11:53:26: 想像天花板是水的頂端
11:54:59: 靜止
11:55:33: 當我們在呼吸時，我們能全然地靜止嗎？
11:55:42: 我們能不能保持靜止，就算我們的細胞們持續在移動？
11:55:46: 是否你身上所有細胞都在移動？
11:56:06: 你能不能同時將你的細胞往同一個方向移動？
11:56:41: 我們未曾停止過眨眼
11:56:43: 太多的呼吸
11:56:49: 心跳跳動著
「打字作為一種舞蹈」是以探索視訊通話如何作為行為表演場域之研究計畫 ——＜Reading the Room＞ 的成果之一。而這個研究計畫是為了回應全球新冠肺炎疫情的影響並試圖去適應線上空間。
透過使用Zoom的對話功能，我們研究文字如何成為動作的樂譜；或反過來說，這個聊天對話框如何成為一種運動的形態。
Reading the Room是由發生在2021年2月至2021年6月期間的總共六次會議的內容所組成。會議的主要成員有Alexandra Davenport with Amelia Tan, Kirstin Halliday, Rachel Coleman & Sara Stenbæk。
Alexandra Davenport
Alexandra (she/her) is an artist and educator working across performance, photography, moving image and text. Signalling back to her history in dance, her work is centred around the body often adopting choreographic tools and strategies from dance as a means to explore the performativity of image-making. The body as image, representations of womxn in visual culture and neuroscience are on-going areas of interest in her work.
Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, in group and solo exhibitions at institutions and festivals such as Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (DE), Museum of London (UK), Hanes Art Gallery (USA), Peckham 24 (UK), A Performance Affair (BG), Summerhall (UK) & The Nunnery Gallery (UK).
She studied BA (Hons) Photography at London College of Communication, MA Photography at Royal College of Art & PGCert Creative Education at University for the Creative Arts. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
