인-비트윈 스페이스 랩
Welcome to a space of lingering.
What reverberates in you, still?
Whenever yearning for personal space, you are welcome to this practice -
for a reset of your temporal perspective;
for the reminder that, along with the many unnamed things you are surrounded by,
your body is what supports your journey.
for a reset of your temporal perspective;
for the reminder that, along with the many unnamed things you are surrounded by,
your body is what supports your journey.
How does invisible accompaniment linger in you as you are pausing now?
We are in-between space lab, a triangular cultural exchange research project involving choreographers He Jin Jang/Korea, Heidi Strauss/Canada and Marie France Forcier/Canada. Our research on this backward-walking experience began in 2023, when we met at SOMA (Mexico City), and quickly realized through discussing our respective practices that many of our sensibilities and interests overlap.
Since then, we have been meeting remotely with regularity for three-way discussions, and have congregated in Calgary (Canada), Seoul (Korea), and Toronto Island (Canada) for research residencies. Over these intensive periods, we have developed a profound sense of companionship by moving/talking/eating/laughing/crying/critiquing/reading/writing/and sharing space.
Since then, we have been meeting remotely with regularity for three-way discussions, and have congregated in Calgary (Canada), Seoul (Korea), and Toronto Island (Canada) for research residencies. Over these intensive periods, we have developed a profound sense of companionship by moving/talking/eating/laughing/crying/critiquing/reading/writing/and sharing space.
These past 10 days at Miao Dance (Singapore), we have been finding connection with space, time, history, memories, and encounters, embracing a sense of uncertainty via the felt-body. By sharing a practice of walking-backward and the curation of a path, we are learning how audience-attentive experiments can act as amplifiers of co-presence. We continue to play with notions of accompaniment by both the human and the more-than-human, and together question habitual tendencies with the hope of becoming more open to uncertainty, with trust and generosity.
Within difference, not resolution; within trembling, not agreement -
across rhythms, ethics, and languages,
within the boundary between the artificial and the natural,
we spent days walking backward and imaging you being on these paths, searching for the conditions of vibration —
for resonance within dissonance.
across rhythms, ethics, and languages,
within the boundary between the artificial and the natural,
we spent days walking backward and imaging you being on these paths, searching for the conditions of vibration —
for resonance within dissonance.
While walking to forget direction, we opened, and reopened, another gate of time.
We are still learning how distance and uneven conditions are an offering.
We are guided by these questions:
Under what conditions may togetherness exist when the world is uncertain?
Despite its inherent fragility, what are the affordances of togetherness in resisting collapse into one voice, or one known path?
Under what conditions may togetherness exist when the world is uncertain?
Despite its inherent fragility, what are the affordances of togetherness in resisting collapse into one voice, or one known path?
In designing this journey — while feeling our own differences —
we realized that invisible companionship, direction, and destination eventually transform into entanglement in dissonance.
we realized that invisible companionship, direction, and destination eventually transform into entanglement in dissonance.
For a window into the process there are links below to:
A documentary created Jinwon Lee.
And a research map compiled by Yewon Seo and designed by Kyujin Shim
Thank you for reading:
Marie France Forcier, He Jin Jang & Heidi Strauss
Marie France Forcier, He Jin Jang & Heidi Strauss
in-between space lab / 인-비트윈 스페이스 랩 was supported in residency through University of Calgary, adelheid, the Seoul Dance Centre/Seoul Foundation for the Arts, Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island), Miao Dance (Singapore), with funding support from Art Council Korea and the Canada Council for the Arts.
