DAY 1 — 1 DECEMBER — CONTEXT, TRIANGLES & LINES
DAY 1 — CONTEXT, TRIANGLES AND LINES
DATE
1 December 2025.
FORMAT
Lecture, shared references, discussion, practical structures and homework.
SHARED REFERENCE FIELD
Mart established a shared base through visual art, dance, performance, architecture, experimental education, film and public art. References included Amy Cutler, Édouard Manet, Vera Mantero, Oskar Schlemmer, Samuel Beckett, Black Mountain College, Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Buckminster Fuller, Gordon Matta-Clark, David Hammons, Nancy Holt, Cyprien Gaillard, Steve Paxton, Jérôme Bel, Joseph Beuys.
Do not create separate Thoughts for these references.
ARTISTIC AUTONOMY
Art cannot be separated from institutional context, economy, politics, social conditions and audience reception.
BODY / FIGURE
Amy Cutler’s ARMY OF ME distinguishes FIGURE from BODY. Figure is visible/optical form; body includes clothing, space, people, history, social relation and invisible experience.
“The body doesn’t end at the skin.”
AUDIENCE AND GAZE
Manet’s OLYMPIA introduced direct gaze, viewer position, mutual visibility and audience implication.
“I see that you see that I see that you see.”
TRIANGLES
Level 0: do what you want inside the room. Level 1: choose one performer and keep them in visual field. Level 2: choose a second and maintain awareness of both. Level 3: keep both in view and maintain equal distance to each; shifting bodies form a moving triangle.
LINES
The group formed lines according to parameters, beginning with HEIGHT. Later parameters were selected by participants and presented without being named; the audience attempted to identify the rule.
BODY-IMAGE STUDY
Participants investigated the minimum bodily change required to alter an image’s meaning through hands, posture, gaze and orientation.
HOMEWORK
A solo of maximum five minutes concerning oneself, allowing audience encounter, using any medium and without obligatory conventional narrative.