Vision Forum in the Americas
- Vision Forum organises workshops with neuroscientists, choreographers and visual artists in Sao Paulo, Mexico City and the Los Angeles, December 2017-March 2018.
What? When? Where
Artist Per Huttner and choreographer Carima Neusser will organise four one-day workshops in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico and California from December 2017 to March 2018. For each workshop they invite neuroscientists, anthropologists, choreographers and visual artists to reflect on human habit from the perspective of their discipline. Each workshop will have a different theme that is negotiated based on the shared interests of the participants in that city.
Problematic
During each workshop the group will investigate human habits both from a theoretical and practical perspective. A representative from each discipline will in their own fashion present how they look at an aspect of how habits inform our lives. The group will present talks, make bodily exercises and discuss specific texts. Here are some questions for discussion:
- Are habits useful for artists? What is the relationship between habit-breaking creativity?
- How do mental and bodily habits relate to one another? Which bodily or somatic practices can support creative habit-breaking?
- Neuroscience stipulates that the brain’s established neural pathways create habit. Neuroplasticity also means that what we do repeatedly in our lives change our nervous system. What is the nature and benefits of habit and habit-breaking from a neuro-scientific perspective?
- Anthropology studies human society. Is a culture a set of habits carried out by a community? What can be learned from inter-cultural exchanges?
You will find continuous updates here and you can read more about the project here. The project is supported by Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse and the Swedish Arts Council.
