070726 / STUDIO REPORTAGE
a brief report
STUDIO REPORTAGE1 is a series in audio-visual.journal which drops y’all into the frequencies emitting from my current workflow. Expressed through one dimension of my research methodology2, (call, listen, respond)3, I’ll gather notes and references for what I’m working on: sharing updates about this virtual journal and other parts of my art practice.
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CALL / What’s been calling to me?
Service, by way of connecting research & publishing to facilitation
More opportunities to study in conversation with others
LISTEN / In what ways have I been listening?
Dedication as ancestral listening
Returning to working with movement scores
RESPOND / In what ways have I been responsive?
ICYMI: Since my last Studio Reportage, I shared 2 new entries of Rehearsing Otherwise (061726, 062626), 1 entry in a series I’m experimenting with called Reference Matierial, & I closed the Summer invitational period for Rehearsing Writing4
Revised the entries page of the journal’s website
Attended a workshop discussing a framework for how one’s leadership moves thru cycles/seasons.
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Thanks for being an audience, and stay tuned,
Paris
In a 2018 interview with The Drum, filmmaker Jenn Nkiru mentions ‘reportage’ as the consequence of process and discovery, a sentiment she learned from filmmaker Haile Gerima. I enjoy this use of the term, so I’m invoking it here. ↩
Shout out Ayana Zaire Cotton, founder of Seeda School, for helping me express my orientation toward musicality and encouraging me to choose these pillars for a generative framework. And shout out to fellow Seeda School alum, isabetta bleu whose structure for sharing studio updates directly inspired me to try a ‘studio update’ series. ↩
‘Call and response’ is a Black technology rooted in traditions of musical expression, spirituality, and oral history/storytelling. When I was challenged to adopt a 3 part framework to structure my art practice, I considered how adding the pillar “listen” might help articulate what happens in between calling and responding. This is an active revision aimed to deepen my engagement with this ancestral form. ↩
Welcome to new subscribers who came by way of the Service Invitation for Rehearsing Writing! For those who resonated with the service but the timing wasn’t quite right, I plan on inviting folks into Rehearsing Writing again during the Fall. Stay tuned! ↩