BASE is the curation of choreography which reflects the specific nature of the medium. BASE seeks to construct a viewing experience that promotes the consideration of choreographic works as artworks, but disrupts traditional relationships between viewer and objects, spectator and performer. Choreography implies the intentional construction of relationships of bodies to space, architecture, other b
odies, and viewers. BASE explores the multitude of possibilities for a choreography of the viewing experience. BASE Sessions are experimental choreographic exhibitions that work towards the creation of an embodied viewership. This means disrupting the primacy of sight by expanding conventional “viewership” toward an experiential model. BASE Sessions situate the viewer as a sensing body, rather than a pair of eyes, and the act of perception as a form of engaged participation. Each BASE Session incorporates workshops, printed matter, performance, film, sound, and lectures. BASE: Session I will take place over the course of ten days, from October 3 -13, 2013, at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA. Human Resources is an art venue whose mission is to broaden public engagement with experimental, interdisciplinary and conceptual art and foreground underexposed modes of expression. For the duration of the exhibition, Human Resources will be divided into multiple, continuously shifting interiors that will support works from a selection of artists. These mobile skeleton structures become evolving organs examining the conscious and unconscious potentialities of the body, performance, and perception.
