Gone, yet still composing … 

Shifting fictions collectively.

Alive … & then Some is a workshop + performance series conceived by Emma Waltraud Howes & Just in F Kennedy to research and analyze the experience and translatability of trance forms. The attempt to reach and analyze different states of trance is at the core of the workshop portion of this series. The performance aspect focuses on how to translate these seemingly interior, and personal processes of profound or transcendental experience, into collective material suitable for live performance. Applying a methodology of deep observation developed in Wormhole Through Your Brain[1], Alive … & then Some plunges without hierarchy into various trance states. Exercises include but are not limited to: Osho dynamic mediation, Ba gua, sacred helixing, internal wave energy, group hypnosis, holy ghost method acting, soft headbanging, wavebouncing, and metal baroque. Through remembrance, automatic response, screenings, readings and archiving, the workshop discusses the analytic aspects of trance forms to address the challenges of documenting and interpreting profound experience. The materials generated through this practice are processed through a choreographic and theatrical `wood chipper` and spat out as a live performance in the form of a lucid (sci-fi) opera.

Credits

• Arranged by: Ana Roche
• Photographer: Tara Chumpelik
• By, With, For: Justin Francis Kennedy, Caspar Rode, Andreas Gurewich, Vlad Gurewich, Dylan Spencer Davidson, Emma Waltraud Howes, Florian Lenz, Lauryn Youden, Tara Chumpelik, & Helena Remeijers Molhoek

Exhibition History

• Alive ... & then Some
  2019
  Palácio Ateneu Comercial do Porto
  Porto, PT
• Alive ... & then Some
  2018
  Palácio Ateneu Comercial do Porto
  Porto, PT
• Wormhole Through Your Brain
  2017
  Impulstanz Vienna
  Vienna, AU
• Wormhole Through Your Brain
  2016
  Impulstanz Vienna
  Vienna, AU