The Movement Library
2024-

The Movement Library is a project Maureen Jonker started during her research at AIT residency. Her residency research mainly focuses on themes of organization and visualization of movement. The movement Library originates from this research, and concentrates on questions, such as: How is communication possible when you don’t speak the same language? How can we communicate without verbal communication? How can we translate stationary movement into motion? Which daily actions may seen as a performance? 

In this work(shop), participants are invited to contribute “movements” to The Movement Library. The work consists of a motion-sharing system where participants cooperatively create movements. The artist will offer concept cards, she especially designed for this workshop. Participants will be asked to draw or make a collage about daily proceedings, on their cards. After finishing those concepts, without verbal communication, other participants interpret these drawings and translate them into movements. After a few rounds, there is space to explain and discuss the created cards. Those movements and drawings will be added to the artist movement database: The Movement Library.