Tremor, ritual for oblivion is a research project on poetic documentation that contemplates the life cycle of memories. It looks at unlearning and forgetting as an eco-somatic process of recycling and transformation necessary for our survival: How can we un-archive the body and cultivate porosity towards others and the environment, so as to stay alive? Can this process of forgetting reconnect us to a more essential ‘memory’?

Tremor experiments with written words that refer to bodily memories and that arises in relation to the local condition and the cycle of seasons. We observe how putting words at play into movement and space can liberate and recycle the memories attached to them, thus allowing for transformation and renewal. We will experiment with calligraphy on paper, on the ground and in space, using more or less (in)stable materials such as movement, pastels, seeds, smoke, sound and light.

This residency is organized in the frame of a collaboration between BUDA Kortrijk and radical_house Brussels. Each year, an artist benefits from a residency in both places, one after the other. radical_house is a long term project that stems from radical_hope’s practices: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. This residency happens in the context of their framework ‘Bridging from School’ for which they nourish collaborations with different partners in the field, bridging between the educational and artistic field, schools and art institutions.

Anouk Llaurens (FR)

Anouk Llaurens is a dance artist, teacher and dance researcher who has been involved in attentional practices since meeting Lisa Nelson in 1998. Her artistic research focuses on the Poetic documentation of lived experience and gives form to participatory practices and artistic rituals that she calls Live documents. Anouk shares her work in various dance and arts education programmes in Europe. She is a graduate of the CNDC in Anger, a.pass and the Yoseïdo Shiatsu Academy in Brussels where she is based.