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^{[CASC] was organised in the context of Distraction as Discipline (DAD) - an investigation into the function of attention and participation in performance art and pedagogy (Langsdorf & Luyten 2016-2019). [CASC] guests / encounters with: Bilal Kamilla Arnout, Alex Arteaga, Tawny Andersen, Julia Barrios de la Mora, Simone Basani, Joris Blanckaert, Julien Bruneau, Gaia Carabillo, Boyzie Cekwana, Julien De Smet, Anne Dekerk, Klaas Devos, Emilie Gallier, Lauren Grusenmeyer, David Helbich, Antony Hudek, Anouk Llaurens, Barbara Raes, School of Love, Laetitia Gendre, Rudi Laermans, Irene Lehmann, Bauke Lievens, Lilia Mestre, Miriam Rohde, Mårten Spångberg, Laura Oriol, Elowise Vandenbroecke, Fransien van der Putt, Kristof Van Baarle, Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, Adva Zakai a.o.}

Choreography AS Conditioning [CASC] is exploring both, the notion of choreography as well as of conditioning, both in art-making as well as in society-making.

Choreography in its widest sense is a way for organising subjects in their surroundings, conditions are states or situations we are undergoing. How do we get choreographed? Where do we undergo organization and conditioning? How and by whom things get organised and what kind of experience is made im/possible?

Artists from various fields of art (dance, choreography, architecture, fine arts, ...), working with choreographically-conditioning aspects, first worked with students in a series
of workshops, lectures, masterclasses and projects (collaborations of different departments at KASK) and eventually were brought together through the symposium, ... Through Practices in the fall 2019.

^{>>> More about the different guests and projects further below.}

An essay-writing proces was running in parallel to the unfolding of the guest-projects, leading to a series of publications.

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^{In March 2017 students worked with Julia Barrios de la Mora (choreographer), Julien Bruneau (choreographer / visual artist) & Martine Huvenne (researcher), Laetitia Gendre (visual artist) & Miriam Rohde (architect), attend a master class by Rudi Laermans (sociology / KU Leuven) or the reflection-sessions with Alex Arteaga (architecture, philosophy UDK Berlin), Adva Zakai (choreographer) and Heike Langsdorf (choreography, performance).}

^{The first book >>> Thinking Conditioning through Practice <<< bundles reflections by guests of this first moment.}

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^{A second moment, this time with choreographer Mårten Spångberg, a collaboration with the drama department of KASK), Vooruit and SMAK, was planned to take place from 4th of February until 3rd of March 2018. An unexspected cancellation of this encounter left a true void.}

^{Within this unfilled time and space conversations and working sessions with School of Love, Barbara Raes, Tawny Andersen, Boyzie Cekwana, Bauke Lievens, Gaia Carabillo, Lauren Grusenmeyer and Julien De Smet are now resulting in the configuration of the second book Practicing Futures through Voicing. <<<}

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^{In February 2019, and as a third working moment, Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans are inviting students to a masterclass co-organised with Antony Hudek (Curatorial Studies), Peter Westenberg (Autonomous Design) and Lars Kwakkenbos (Faculty Comission Film, Photography, Drama) into their long term artistic research project ‘A Modest Proposal’. Fascinated in reclaiming the invisible of financial policy making since many years, this masterclass will leap into the realm where it is very complex to still precisely make out who / what is causing who / what. The magic and dynamics of indexing, speculating, algorithms and value making through ‘just trusting’ systems, is made tangible through insisting that these phenomena are potential material for artistic practicing. And that this practicing is to be considered the production of both artistic research and artworks.}

^{A third publication, The Orphans of Tar -- A Speculative Opera <<< is co-authored on invitation by the two artists towards the participants who were interested to invest into the subjet matter beyond the workshop.}

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^{A fourth CASC at KASK moment, a mastercalss with David Helbich, happened in the fall 2018 and April 2019 as a collaboration with the MAnaMA programme (Conservatorium). In conversation with Joris Blanckaert this working moment grew into the preparation for a public event for April 2019: House Of Ear: ... an immersive and interactive sound installation. The audience can follow a course through various rooms where different stages of sound-thinking, over sound-hearing, towards sound-listening can be perceived and investigated. The final goal is an audience that explores their active listening. The listener will reflect on their position in the act of listening, on what physical and mental activities does she or he process, and ultimately on the paradigm of self-performance. House of Ear is the sonic equivalence of a detox diet: a workshop of selfcaring by using your ears. Foucault’s notion of Care of the Self, as well as Instagram’s cucumber slice pictures with hashtags such as #selfcare, #selfcaresunday and #metime, meet aesthetic expression. All with a little bit of irony, but serious at the same time.} 

^{A fourth publication -- currently in the making -- will be a 'written exhibition', reflecting the working process with David Helbich & Joris Blanckaert and the resulting project House of Ear.}

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^{A fifth publication is currently in the making and reflects the symposium ... Through Practices which was installed and performed during the fall 2019.}

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