The Nomadic Scores
The Nomadic Scores are a collection of proposals that have been accumulated through collective researches and projects.
The scores are gathered in the form of a card set. Each card is an invitation to a particular score.
They move between four different zones:
Contextualising /Deconstructing,
Queering/Subversion,
Entanglement /care,
and Layers of the body.
These zones fluidly overlap and intersect as do the colours on the cards.
The first version of the card set was created in 2022, in the frame of the Connecting Communities project from Aktion Tanz, in collaboration with the dance artist Carolin Jüngst, and was gathering many scores developped during the research project “Nomadic Academy”.
Since then, we keep developing the scores cards as a Nomadic Ground project, as a changing, living archive, that reflect our work, and the different contexts we are in, fed by many other artists, writers and inspirations, still in “becoming” and expanding.
You can order the lastest version and receive it per post for the price of 20 euro
Queering /Subversion
This zone is about subverting the status quo, finding ways to step out, to do things differently, to mis-use, to practice alternative paths, and find the in-betweens.
It is about unknowing the known, a playful proposal to experience things from upside down and diagonals. Make it multiple, make it strange.
Contextualising /Deconstructing
In this zone we look at the bodies situated in a historical, social, policial, and cultural context. How this shapes who we are, our patterns, and our perspectives.
Can we try to deconstruct these patterns, seeing these bodies as archives and constructed identities. Rewriting the past for a different future.
Entanglement /care
This zone is about practicing co-existence in a larger ecosystem, acknowledging this codependency and interdependency with other humans and species. How to exist together in response-ability.
It is an attempt to take humans out of center stage, practicing care and listening, building a system of support and resonance.
Layers of the body
In this zone we try to activate all layers of the body.
Approaching bodies as matter, anatomy, cellular systems, emotional beings, textures…
Exploring how these different layers are interconnected, isolating and stimulating them, allows us to widen our somatic perception, our movement and sensation possibilities.
Radical Listening More than Human
Take a plant as partner. Look at each other for 1 minute.
The human listens to the plant for 2 minutes.
Then asks follow-up questions to the plant for 30 seconds.
Imaginary Make-up
In pairs.
One person has their eyes closed, the other puts invisible makeup on their partner´s face, using their fingers to touch the face, and saying each time what kind of colour, style
and shape they are applying.
Swap roles when the make up is finished.