FUNKTIONEN tool box
This is a set of cards which allows one to lay out scores, tasks,
systems or just to become inspired. It contains 3 different
choreographic systems:
- "Categories"
- "It's better to …"
- "Functions"
Also, there are other multi-coloured cards:
- Aspects
- Themes
- Terms
- Persons
- Blank
Here, the word „system“ represents the idea of a structure which can be
created and which undergoes constant change through different parameters
which can be developed by people.
Each card can be set in relation with others. In this sense these single
systems can be used as described in detail, can be altered, or can be
combined or enhanced with each other. Furthermore, they can be enhanced
with one’s own ideas, or developed into one’s own system and/or work
which can very well become unrecognizable in relation with this set.
It's possible to create either one group work, or to work as a group
with this set. Solo work can be done as well. Individual working tasks
can be found by choosing one card out of each colour for example. It can
be used as material to study and as a method for teaching.
Communication is one of the major factors among people while working
with these cards.
The above-mentioned category, Themes, establishes a possible link to
socially relevant contexts in order to allow a bridge between the
hermetic world of the artwork and the outside world. The set of cards
can also be used for acting, performance or live art as well as all
other art forms, such as music and fine arts. The point is either to
work from these structures, or to reflect about arising issues which
could be mentioned.
The system aims towards a kind of work that understands itself as a
group of changeable interactive structures which are based on
communications between the constituting factors. People don’t make
communications. Communications make people. Though the systems can be
worked on as described, their success is, of course, not guaranteed. A
lot of responsibility is needed for the execution. More possibilities
mean more selection from an expanding complexity. One could think about
three necessities while doing performance work with these cards:
being the physical working horse,
being the individual artist,
being the performer of the work.
Basically, it's possible to show the human being within, in friction
with, using, or beyond a system of structures, thereby making either the
constituting factors transparent or placing results in the foreground.
The possibility which is embarked upon in this set of cards is to enable
people to develop and influence their constitutive factors through
communications with each other and through conscious use of these listed
tools.
IMPRINT
"FUNKTIONEN"
- tool slip box -
published by Thomas Lehmen
designed by Katrin Schoof / gabi.berlin
edited by Sven-Thore Kramm, William Wheeler
editorial address and contact:
Comp. Thomas Lehmen
E-Mail: production@thomaslehmen.de
Internet: www.thomaslehmen.de
Price: 10,- € + mailing expenses
ISBN 3-00-014990-2
© 2004
Available on: production@thomaslehmen.de