cesar is working currently on a project that is under the working title ‘open architecture’ that will result in a construction of a special boat, sailing over the atlantic. these are his two blogs: http://www.2012hopes.com/ and http://opensailing.net/. a very intersting project. so he talked a lot about his work and his visions and it turned out that a lot of the things were quite interferring with my interst in the courtyard project. key words of our work will be:

• shift of power/tension in a space
• self assembly
• brownian movement
• swarm
• meeting

we made an experiment in the entrance hall of the tate museum in london (participants: Mike Chan, Elpida Orfanidou, Simone Truong, Cesar Harada, thanks to you all), where we reacted with simple rules onto the visiters of the museum. unwillingly the visitors became performer and director of the choreography we where making. rules were, for example:

1. when someone looks at something you look at it too
2. when someone stops, you turn around yourself
3. when someone crosses the space you try to intersect their pathway
4. when a group of people cross you try to split the group in two, etc

underneath is another video of a program that cesar designed with a friend (hiromi ozaki) also studying at the royal college in london.  on the right side you see a list of (in green) enviromental conditions like earthquake zones, dry zones, cold zones and (in red) the human conditions like epidemie. those items are all connected to a programm that transfers actual data onto this map. the little dots that move around are humans that react to the danger zones, like that they drift in the world around. well what a like about those two videos is that they actually show very similar things, how humans move in space reacting to their environment and unconsciously without sometimes knowing eachother, influencing eachother. i think in a smaller scale it will be in a community of a courtyard the same. so the upper keywords will be used in dance/movement in relationship to your own body, other bodies, the architecture or the further enviroment.