HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT
Performative workshop
Experiencing the museum through body and movement
This project is a key to bring students closer to the exhibition "Great war 1914-2014” (04 Oct. 2014 / 20 Sep. 2015)." - MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy)
Its aim is to answer the questions generated by visiting the exhibition in a participatory and collective way.
Through various actions, taking place in the exhibition halls, young participants will be engaged in a tour, thanks to which they will explore various concepts related to conflict and dialogue through a dynamic point of view.
Visitors can live the Museum’s space in a participatory and creative way, becoming protagonists of an experience where bodies, minds and emotions are actively
involved.
The first world war (the Great war) is the starting point to reflect on the actuality of the conflict – still actual and at the centre of today's debate – but it is also and foremost an opportunity to build a space for 'dialogue' against any conflict or war.
Participants, with the aid of a facilitator-guide, go through the various rooms of the exhibition and engage in a variety of actions derived from techniques and games belonging to Augusto Boal's Image Theatre (Theatre of the Oppressed). Image Theatre consists in the physical representation of thoughts and ideas which occurs through corporeal representations, a tableau of frozen poses made with the participants's bodies.
Starting as a viewer and ending as a protagonist, the participants have the opportunity to both act and observe, and engage in self-empowering processes of dialogue that help foster critical thinking.
Participants engage in a collective performance that ends in a general reflection on the conflict and puts forward the common need to find new ways to express.
Its aim is to answer the questions generated by visiting the exhibition in a participatory and collective way.
Through various actions, taking place in the exhibition halls, young participants will be engaged in a tour, thanks to which they will explore various concepts related to conflict and dialogue through a dynamic point of view.
Visitors can live the Museum’s space in a participatory and creative way, becoming protagonists of an experience where bodies, minds and emotions are actively
involved.
The first world war (the Great war) is the starting point to reflect on the actuality of the conflict – still actual and at the centre of today's debate – but it is also and foremost an opportunity to build a space for 'dialogue' against any conflict or war.
Participants, with the aid of a facilitator-guide, go through the various rooms of the exhibition and engage in a variety of actions derived from techniques and games belonging to Augusto Boal's Image Theatre (Theatre of the Oppressed). Image Theatre consists in the physical representation of thoughts and ideas which occurs through corporeal representations, a tableau of frozen poses made with the participants's bodies.
Starting as a viewer and ending as a protagonist, the participants have the opportunity to both act and observe, and engage in self-empowering processes of dialogue that help foster critical thinking.
Participants engage in a collective performance that ends in a general reflection on the conflict and puts forward the common need to find new ways to express.
(body to body) Hand-to-hand combat
The fight scene between two human beings is the archetype of war; that’s because, at some point in history, conflicts essentially consisted of individual battles.
The warrior’s body is proposed as a living place of defence and offense, as an object of injury, mutilation, death; but by showing its scars the body also survives as a site of remembrance.
The warrior’s figure embodies the relationship between man, his body and armaments.
Nowadays, weapons have taken over; the last war that witnessed the representation of a "Hand-to-hand combat" was the First World War.
* The conflict is dialogue *
Conflict is dialogue’s first expression; participants will try opposed forces to establish a new balance.
Conflict, as an antagonism between two parties, has long been used in attempts to provide an explanation of historical progress. Also, a state of conflict was recognized as being grounding of the same mechanisms that govern the process of human evolution.
* Theater of war *
The place where a war is fought is traditionally called "theatre". This word alludes to the enormous power that war has to represent, to "stage" deep and substantial elements of humankind, otherwise difficult to find in daily life.
Theatre also refers to a specific spatial horizon and a "separated" place of everyday life, in which exuberant energies can live.
* Other senses *
I have a body, I am the body: the contrasts in the relationship between subjectivity and corporeality. The body is an emotional world; it is psychological and physical.
The body, with its tensions and its limits is a space that reflects contradictions, conflicts, needs, and questions of our time.
The fight scene between two human beings is the archetype of war; that’s because, at some point in history, conflicts essentially consisted of individual battles.
The warrior’s body is proposed as a living place of defence and offense, as an object of injury, mutilation, death; but by showing its scars the body also survives as a site of remembrance.
The warrior’s figure embodies the relationship between man, his body and armaments.
Nowadays, weapons have taken over; the last war that witnessed the representation of a "Hand-to-hand combat" was the First World War.
* The conflict is dialogue *
Conflict is dialogue’s first expression; participants will try opposed forces to establish a new balance.
Conflict, as an antagonism between two parties, has long been used in attempts to provide an explanation of historical progress. Also, a state of conflict was recognized as being grounding of the same mechanisms that govern the process of human evolution.
* Theater of war *
The place where a war is fought is traditionally called "theatre". This word alludes to the enormous power that war has to represent, to "stage" deep and substantial elements of humankind, otherwise difficult to find in daily life.
Theatre also refers to a specific spatial horizon and a "separated" place of everyday life, in which exuberant energies can live.
* Other senses *
I have a body, I am the body: the contrasts in the relationship between subjectivity and corporeality. The body is an emotional world; it is psychological and physical.
The body, with its tensions and its limits is a space that reflects contradictions, conflicts, needs, and questions of our time.
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