Residency Alix Eynaudi at MDT Stockholm

In the frame of the Creative Crossroad activity, Alix Eynaudi was selected by danceWEB to receive a 2 years structural support by the LLB network to work on her latest production "Noa & Snow"

This support includes a co-production support by danceWEB and residencies at ICI-CCN Montpellier and MDT Stockholm.

Project description:

Noa & Snow, a gentle experiment between the everyday and the event

At the crossroad between curating, writing and choreography, Noa & Snow becomes an organisation of working, studying together, an event that skirts the already established modes of artistic production and organises its own poetic encounters.

Noa & Snow wants to experiment

• Using poetry as a common tool to welcome otherness and the unexpected into our domestic lives, our daily work activities

• Placing art in everyday life in order to establish new relationships with the event and the exceptional (the Performances will be presented at the Volkskundemuseum, during working hours and will be for free)

• Opening a space where art meets other ordinary work activities, in a non-hierarchical way (a co-working public art studio)

• Producing a kind of non-attentive attention, a non-oppressive dramaturgy that allows rather than guides (art rendered “ambient” by its contextualisation, not its nature)

Noa & Snow proposes to use poetry as a vehicle to explore otherness, coexistence, hospitality, care and collectivity.

The core research team is composed of Alix Eynaudi, Paula Caspão, Lydia McGlinchey and Quim Pujol.

Conceived as a choreographic social experiment, Noa & Snow wants to gently allow rather than guide, to implicate rather than explicate. The fact that the project runs over 2 years, will allow the fellowship formed by the team and their guests to exerce various scenarios of political and social engagement via their commitment to an artistic practice.

Residency at MDT in Stockholm 2021

This residency was planned for spring 2020 as part of the first cycle of Creative Crossroads activities. Because of the pandemic we had to postpone it, first to autumn 2020 and then to January 2021. It was uncertain if we could go through with it up until close to the planned dates, but in the end we did with some modifications. Alix Eynaudi came with collaborator Mark Lorimer. One of the planned collaborators couldn’t travel at the time, and we shortened the residency from two weeks to one, because of the artists personal schedule in the middle of the pandemic. Even with some modifications, it meant a lot for MDT to host an international residency at this time of almost no live international exchange. It was an important experience of artistic exchange and conversations about our field in these times. And even though all the re-planning and uncertainties was hard to work with, it led to a longer ongoing conversation between MDT and the artist.
During the residency, the artists work with the project Noa & Snow.

Residency at ICI-CCN de Montpellier 2020

In ICI-CCN, Aix Eynaudi has gathered Quim Pujol, Paula Caspão and Joachim Hamou for "Noa and Snow - poem #4 et demi"

Poem# 4 and a half is a public iteration of the underground project Noa and Snow, a gentle experiment between the everyday and the event, a research at the crossroads of writing and choreography which sees in poetry the capacities of learning and organization, making art familiar, restoring its share of invisible work, seizing it collectively to set the imagination ablaze. For it is between the everyday and the event that (re)defines our attention regime. The suspension of the extreme vigilance, by granting to the glance the right to stroll, makes new potentialities appear. A joyful coexistence, where dance meets other fields.

Books parked at the edge of each other. Some metamorphosing our eyes, prickly at nightfall that never ends. A movement in time - going around the books - an editorial gesture that is inscribed in words that are thrown out with application. To paraphrase, to lean on/in the presences and words: transform what we touch into a book; double their/our language, editorially. Publish and forget. To fall back into it, in deliberating translations. We will practice writings, those that are shared together without any particular communality - an event takes the form of a book, published, horny, one that relies on our inner texts, the voices that read for us, by us, in our dances. A public opening in the form of a publication. Fields of research are unfolding under our trampling at the beginning of November: credits, ways to borrow, to create, to publish, to give credibility... to (feel) touch/touch and to report on dyslexia and its (dys)lexicons.

View her experience reports about the residencies in in the upper right column.

Gallery pics by Aliy Eynaudi, residency in Montpellier