COOP SUMMIT 2024 ~ …And Then I Opened My Mouth
Thursday, September 5 ~ 19:30 - 21:30
Location: Dar Souiri ~ Association Essaouira Mogador, 10, avenue du Caire, Essaouira
COOP study group The Word and the Wound presents:
Where in the body is the word? Where is our point of light? Maybe in a whisper behind our ears; in the echo of armless hugs; in the confessional undertone of fingers touching throats and tongues touching pupils; in the release of a last shared breath. Where is our common dream?
((mmmm)) – calm hands on chest
How can we reenvision the understanding while sustaining self and others? An encounter with the act of listening as a propeller of making the 2 into 1. In knots of shadow practice somehow we synchronize. We wait, within. We let go of the body. We risk skin. We breathe in-in-in. We breathe out-out-out. With a tone or a shade of blue, not hoping for answers, only resonance.
((nnnnn)) – soft hands on chest
Maintaining a continuous dialogue of practiced rituals, the word and the wound lays bare and heightens a warm-up. An abundance of ballad and repetition, of composing and decomposing, of dismantling directional hierarchies and reorienting narratives towards a circle. A collective and muscle-bound stretching of voice, for mouth and ears: mine, yours, both; a mouth made of many mouths and multiple singular ears.
An open and unwavering invitation.
((nnggg)) – warm hands on chest
“A song on fragility. On a responsibility to remain defenseless. An homage to a
romance...and a poem that listens...”
((wowww)) – we tune with each other and then...
Contributors: Ania Yilmaz, Ariell Zéphyr, Cristina Ramos González, Elif Cadoux, Helena Estrela, Lisa Vlamings, Maria Miguel Pratas, Sam Mountford, Seán Bean, Stephen McEvoy, Tereza Darmovzalová, Valeria Moro, Yi-Hong Wang (Hong)
Tutor Team: Snejanka Mihaylova, Frédérique Bergholtz
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COOP study groups are year-long collaborative, un-disciplined trajectories, guided by well-defined overarching questions or propositions where students and tutorial teams alike come together to share research and develop group work.
Extensive information on the learning trajectory of COOP study group The Word and the Wound can be found HERE
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