Critical Correspondence
iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 6
iLAB Collaborative Residency Engagement with Public #1 Under a blue sky dotted with lumpy cumulus, Hope and Michelle welcomed the gathered participants in Bryant Park at 41st and 6th Avenue. To start they presented the questions that they wanted the group to consider as we proceeded on the soundwalk: • How does listening affect how […]
iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 5
iLAB Collaborative Residency The Beginning The participants gathered sitting on the floor in a loose circle in Studio #4 of Trisha Brown Studios. It is an interior studio with no natural light. Of the four walls, one is completely mirrored end to end. The room feels divided by a supporting pillar in the western third […]
iLand: E.J. McAdams Notes (and Impressions) Day 2
iLAB Collaborative Residency Movement Warm Up Hope took the group through a warm up in Studio #1 at Trisha Brown Studios on West 55th Street. The room was infused with light despite the industrial windows and the shade of the surrounding buildings. Everyone was in a circle even Michelle who was nursing her son, Uta. […]
iLand: Hope Mohr: Entry #1
iLAB Collaborative Residency September 7 A question of method: Intentional versus unconscious physical responses to noise. Deconstructing the decision to move. The critical moment is the gap between receiving sensory information and reacting to it through movement. How will we work with that gap, inside it? Unconscious responses feel more authentic, more direct. But it […]
iLand: Project Description
iLAB Collaborative Residency A project of iLAND, iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that will integrate creative practice within the different fields/disciplines. Choreographer Hope Mohr and Composer and Acoustic Ecologist Michelle Nagai have been selected for the first iLAB residency to be […]
iLand: First Dialogue
iLAB Collaborative Residency Q1: What is your starting point? Michelle: Hope emailed me. The series of questions Hope sent me was a starting point. There are ideas in this that I have been thinking about for some time, but H’s list of questions focused my thinking, specifically about movement and the impact of sound on […]
