Scores for Daily Living explores the use of the architectural floor plan as a template for creating graphic notations for performance. The L40 exhibition space at the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, served as the first site of this research, where a series of drawings for the choreography of eight performers was produced. This notation system was intended to create a framework that encourages agency and highlights “embodied knowledge,” in contrast to traditional labanotation, an approach for graphically representing the human body that instructs dancers to perform deliberate movements in a 1:1 ratio.

Later iterations of Scores for Daily Living expand on the original drawings and their accompanying notation system. For more on the background that informed the evolution of Scores for Daily Living and its subsequent iterations, see the publication Ankyloglossia (n. tongue-tie) (K. Verlag and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2014).

Credits

• Curators: Julia Horstmann and Annette Hans
• Photo: Julia Horstmann

Exhibition History

• THIS HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
  2020
  Lothringer 13 Halle
  Munich, DE
• Scores for Daily Living
  2019
  Quartier Am Hafen
  Cologne, DE
• Scores for Daily Living
  2019
  ZIL Cultural Center
  Moscow, RU
• Conglomerate: Block 5
  2018
  Kino Moviemento
  Berlin, DE
• «I hear you» (Jeg hører deg )
  2018
  Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag
  Namsos, NL
• Hidden Lines of Space
  2017
  L 40
  Berlin, DE

Related Publication

• Jeg Hører Deg
  2018
  Ed.: Maria Veie Sandvik
  Kunstmuseet Nordtrøndelag
• Scores for Daily Living
  2020
  Ed.: Mark Soo
  K Verlag