Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Müller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clémentine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir
Choreography as Conditioning
The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera
11,2 × 17,7cm, 104 p, paperback
ISBN 9789493146327
design: 6′56″
edition of 500
October 2019
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The books included in the series Choreography as Conditioning are rooted in a cycle of work sessions entitled CASC at KASK, in which students work together with invited guests. They explore the notions of choreography, understood as ways of organizing subjects in their surroundings, and conditioning in both art-making and society-making. Where, how, and by whom are things organized and what kind of landscapes of experience are made (im)possible by the practices we enact and encounter?
The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera answers the question posed in the second book by transforming life into voices and presenting possible mindsets through co-authoring a factual fiction. As such, it constitutes a mental space in which fictitious characters find an almost disturbing expansion of their thoughts. Accordingly, the book can be considered as an allegory of human thoughts as (possible) actions: what could happen becomes what does happen. For better and worse.
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All books from the series ‘Choreography as Conditioning’ (each €15) for €60.
1. Alex Arteaga and Heike Langsdorf (eds.) — Thinking Conditioning through Practice
2. Tawny Andersen & Heike Langsdorf (eds.) — Practicing Futures through Voicing
3. Julien de Smet, Ronny Heiremans, Heike Langsdorf, Vanessa Müller, Filip Van Dingenen, Stijn Van Dorpe, Clémentine Vaultier, Katleen Vermeir — The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera
4. Simone Basani (ed.) — Choreography as Self-Conditioning — A Written Exhibition
5. Alex Arteaga & Heike Langsdorf (eds.) — … Through Practices
