Elena Binni
Tinder Project
This is an ongoing project on Social Network system and the way how young people relate today. It is directly connected with a project on friendship I have done last year at Camberwell College which ran through a series of interviews and a final installation to show relation between space and frienship.
I am beginning to look at volunteers which are interested in iscussing this argument through performance language.
A book of the Italian philosopher Giacomo Fronzi inspired my research and informed the presentation of the project. I wrote a text (as follow) and I have sent it to fellow student from Wimbledon and Camberwell College.
Presentation:
“The modern world seems to be oriented towards the extremes, towards the absence of limits and constraints, towards the restoration of absolutist reason (political, theoretical or scientific), towards a horizon of self destruction. Trying to move in the opposite direction we chose to reflect on the relation, intended as a dialogue between knowledges and as a mode of existence (intersubjectivity responsible), but also as an opening to the Other and to the non-identity. Again, with a relational approach we have looked also to the aesthetic experience, as compared to the production of the artwork as to its reception. The planetary crisis (not just financial Bursar) who invested cannot be answered with isolation, fear and distrust, but with a renewed opening to the Other, rediscovering the "reasons of the relation".
The exploration of the risky, dark and unsure paths of the relationship, in its various forms, seems to offer to the man of today an interesting possibility for a truly open and community dimension.”
From Giacomo Fronzi, “Etica ed estetica della ralazione”, Milano: Mimesis, 2009
Hello everyone in MFA year 2,
In my current practice I'm interested in social space and social behavior. For this reason I am reading books about relational aesthetics, like the text above.
I found this short introduction very inspirational and I started to think about how people, particularly of our age, relate to one another in our time.
From this grew the idea of staging a series of experimental performances over three days which will take place in the outside space/courtyard, between the canteen and the student desk, over lunch time on the 12, 13 and 14 February (Saint Valentine’s Day of course).
It is important to note that I am interested in relationships in the broadest sense of the word - from friendship to love – and how we communicate and maintain relationships.
Call for participation: I am looking for people that are interested in collaborating with me for all or part of this project. In particular, for the first performance (on Wednesday) - ‘Tinder’ - as about 30 or more people are needed! The Second performance (on Thursday) is called: re-la-dancing. The Third performance (on Friday) is open to discussion.
Each will involve theatre, dance and music.
To know more about this project and to express your interest in participating please email:
Thank you and I hope that you will get involved!
Elena Binni, MFA 1st year