Notebook-ness

“Leah Landau's Notebook-ness creates a space for doing what I keep meaning to do, but can never quite find the time for on my own. With simple, clear prompts Notebook-ness has helped me find new ways to look back and provided the unexpected pleasure of getting a glimpse of how other people work with their notebooks. There's an ease to the considerate, ethical, playful context Leah creates for Notebook-ness that I look forward to every time.” - Chrysa Parkinson

In resistance to the demand of constant artistic production, Notebook-ness is a workshop for dancers and choreographers at all stages of practice to look back on their notes. They are invited to bring their artist notebooks - both current and old; many books and one; analogue and digital - and work alone, alongside each-other, together as a group. 

Participants work with practical tools such as compiling index/glossaries, using colour as time-codes, numbering pages and navigating  'data versus information'. Speculative writing methods, as well as subtle ways of paying attention while working attune participants to different levels of focus, distance and scale.

Questions participants are invited to explore are: 

What sort of structures and tactics do artists work with, implicitly? How does this change over time? What does the relative (dis)order of documentation reveal?

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2023 -
Masters in New Performance Practices, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden
Bachelor of Dance, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden

2022 -
Lucy Guerin Inc., independent artist workshop, Melbourne Australia,
Masters of New Performance Practices program, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden
Interdisciplinary Research Lab, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden
Bachelor of Dance, La Manufacture, Lausanne Switzerland

2021-
Methods in Artistic Research, seminar. Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden
Masters in New Performance Practices program, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden
Heads of Dance Departement, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), Sweden