june 2009
www.pallab.org
We did a Performing Arts Lab in Kent, the UK. Theme was this website and more specifically 2 questions:
Is there such a thing as Global Intimacy, and if there is can I get it on camera?
And since we are launching our application Lypo this week, we had lots of discussions and inquiries about the Opposite: your perfect opponent in life and debate.
LYPO (Love Your Perfect Opposite) has been created because we believe you learn the most about yourself by talking to people who are different than you and who disagree with you.
It's the technological translation of the famous sentence: "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right of saying that."
We are bored with just finding friends on social networks, we want to find our opposites and join the debate!
You will find some clips of the participants on the front page these days, later just search Opposites and you will find them.www.LYPO.org
In the lab we worked with 28 mostly young artist/journalists and campaigners, from different art-disciplines, different religious backgrounds and of very mixed identities. We did exercises, made new work, discussed it, had great dinners outside (yes, UK has sun as well...and we got lots of it!).
We talked about how different we were, and in what ways we are the same. Also about whether you should solve conflicts as an artist or make work about it and let it be.
To much political correctness going on.....
Everybody is struggling in the arts-world to find a place and survive, but at the same time everyone is highly motivated to find new forms and ways in theatre, film, dance, hip-hop music and visual arts.
We do not know what will come out of it yet, but we will keep you posted.
Thanks Susan, Jenny and Kathy for your spectacular hospitality!
