Playground Anna Konjetzky: Gathering

The next Gathering will be with the musician Eric Thielemans https://www.ericthielemans.com who has not just long an rich experience on musical collaborations, but he also recently publishes On Resonance: Scores, Notes and Conversations
We all have a body through which we sense the world around us. One could see our
bodies as vessels, spaceships, that allow us to explore a vast variety of modes of
being. As human beings we are thrown into this world entering our diverse families
and cultures in which a repertoire of ways of being are shared.
We shake hands this way, greet that way, walk this way, hold ourselves straight
that way, share our excitement this way, dance in public sometimes if at all that way,
sing out loud perhaps sometimes not too much this way, get crazy that way.
Resonance is a culmination of my life in and with music, wherein I explored and
continue to do so, the many embodied ways in which we connect ourselves to both
our inner field of experience, and the outer world in which we exist.
How to partake in this symphony of being, this dance of molecules that is
happening inside and outside of us? Does it not at least sometimes makes you truly
wonder whether there is such a clear separation between our so-called inner being
and what exists ‘out there’?
And the moment of celebration as dance, does it come to us when we prepare
and organise, or does it, more often than we’d like it, elude our grabbing and
controlling tendencies? When does magic, that special experience of flow emerge
in our contemporary daily lives?
And more specifically, how do we, artists, explore, invite and cultivate it today?
This book puts experience first. Experience makes us human. We know some thing
is there, because we experience it. We hear whispers in the trees, the stars and the
clouds. We see magic in the eyes of a cat.