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The Chamber of Transformation

Source collection

Affordance

INVITATION FOR AN ACTION

all transactions that are possible between individuals and their environment.

(image credits: Bruno Munari, Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair, performative pose, 1944)

PROCESS

CONSTANT CHANCE

a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular result.

(image credits: Manuel Raeder, Michael Beutler, Nora Schultz, Body, workshop LiveInYourHead, 2014)

STAGE

A PLACE OF ACTION

a threshold across which a world of characters and events comes to presence.

(image credits: Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova, The Magnanimous Cuckold, stage design, 1922)

RELATIONS

EFFECTS Of BODIES ON EACH OTHER

a system of contacts and behaviours established between actors.

(image credits: Sister Corita Kent, Mary's Day Parade, happening, 1964)

PRESENCE

A STATE of BEING

affective encounter, existence, or interaction between bodies in real or virtual space.

(image credits: Yves Klein, Anthropometries of the Blue Period, painting performance, 1960)

LIMINALITY

TRANSFORMATIVE PHASE

a phase of waiting on a threshold between the old and new way of understanding during a ritual.

(image credits: Tianzhuo Chen, An Atypical Brain Damage, performance, 2017)

EVENTNESS

PERFORMATIVE TIME AND SPACE

a temporary event in a place where the actual is always haunted by the possibility.

(image credits: Åbäke, All the Knives (Any Printed Story on Request), performative exhibition, 2012–2013)

CHANCE

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.

(image credits: The Rodina, Mind Map: Walking With the Professor, performance, 2014)

BODIES

PRESENT INDIVIDUALS

actors assembled and active in ways that become meaningful as a potential collectivity.

(image credits: Karel Teige and Milca Mayerová, Abeceda, film, 1926)

AFFECT

PRESENT EXPERIENCE

a moment of an intensity of feelings and emotions resonating with the body

(image credits: Guy de Cointet, Two Drawings, performance, 1977 (reperformed in 2010))

ACTION

PERFORMATIVE ACT

an act of changing the dynamics of an event by doing something.

(image credits: Bauhaus & Oscar Schlemmer, The Metallic Festival, event costume, 1929)

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