EX!T 15 工作坊 Workshop：拾獲物體表演—與嘉妮・凱瑟的會面
Found Object Performance—meeting with Janie Geiser
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拾獲物體表演—與嘉妮・凱瑟的會面
Found Object Performance—meeting with Janie Geiser
時間｜ 2025/12/11（四） 14:30-17:00
地點｜牯嶺街小劇場 二樓藝文空間
講師｜嘉妮・凱瑟 Janie Geiser
費用｜500元
參與條件｜18 歲以上。如果有一些藝術、電影或表演經驗佳，但不是必需的——有興趣就行。不需要表演經驗，也不需要使用口說文字——所有聲音都將來自物體。
人數｜15 位
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報名連結 ｜拾獲物體表演—與嘉妮・凱瑟的會面
✦ 工作坊以英文進行，現場逐步中文口譯 ✦
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【工作坊介紹】
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物品是深刻意義的載體。 物體既可以喚起特定的用途（例如用筆來寫字），也可以透過其用途暗示新的意義（例如，以某種方式移動的筆可能會讓人聯想到走在街上的人）。記憶通常透過看到（顏色、形狀）或觸摸（紋理、重量）物體來刺激。
物件表演可以利用物件的力量以簡單而創新的方式講述故事。工作坊參與者將與一系列物件合作，以物件作為佈景、角色和環境來創建簡短的表演練習（ 3 到 6 分鐘）。 表演可以是敘事的，也可以是抽象的，可以是嚴肅的，也可以是幽默的。
參與者以小組形式進行工作，可以回應來自任何來源的文本作為起點。不過，表演中不會使用任何台詞或歌詞。重點將放在使用執行對象來闡明文本中的想法或敘述。 任何聲音都可以透過使用物體來產生。
在表演之後，如果時間允許，我們還將觀看使用物品進行表演的藝術家的作品摘錄，包括《現代酒店》和《生存研究實驗室》。
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【講師介紹】嘉妮・凱瑟 Janie Geiser
嘉妮・凱瑟是一位多學科藝術家，其實踐涵蓋表演、電影、裝置和藝術。 凱瑟的作品以對廢棄圖像和物體的重新脈絡化、對人造物的擁抱以及對記憶、力量和失落的探索而聞名。凱瑟是古根漢研究員、2016 年多麗絲杜克藝術家獎得主和創意資本獎得主。凱瑟獲得了 2023 年斯坦布拉哈格視覺獎，該獎項頒發給「其作品突破了前衛和實驗電影製作極限」的電影製作人。他最近獲得了 2025-2026 年卡普蒂瓦島勞森伯格駐留計畫。
「凱瑟表達了潛意識的聲音，指出了在社會和語言規則之前存在的被遺棄的輝煌。」(—Holly Willis，Res，2004 年)。
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凱瑟的電影曾在美國國家美術館、顯微鏡畫廊、惠特尼博物館、古根漢美術館、現代藝術博物館、太平洋電影資料館、蓬皮杜藝術中心、薩爾茲堡博物館、舊金山現代藝術博物館、洛杉磯郡立藝術博物館、沙迦雙年展、紐約電影節、鹿特丹國際電影節、多倫多國際電影節、倫敦國際電影節、奧伯豪森電影節放映。
凱瑟的電影被收藏於現代藝術博物館、紐約公共圖書館的 Donnell 媒體中心、加州藝術學院和柏克萊藝術博物館太平洋電影資料館。他的電影《紅色的書》被收錄於國會圖書館國家電影登記處。美國電影學院檔案館已將他的作品列入保存名單，《異度觀看》（2000 年）被《電影評論》評選為過去十年十大實驗電影之一。
作為美國先鋒派木偶劇復興的先驅之一，凱瑟創造了創新、催眠般的表演和裝置，將表演物件、木偶和投影融為一體。他的作品曾在公共劇院、文德博物館、聖安倉庫、Redcat、沃克藝術中心和蓋蒂別墅展出。 凱瑟的表演獲得了 OBIE 獎、Bessie 獎，以及洛克菲勒基金會、國家藝術基金會、文化創新中心、MapFund、加州社區基金會視覺藝術家獎學金、洛杉磯市藝術家獎學金和蓋蒂別墅劇院實驗室委員會的資助。
凱瑟於 Five Myles 畫廊舉辦他的 2025 年展覽，2018 年在 Track 16 畫廊舉辦展覽以及 2014 年在洛杉磯 China Art Objects 展出了單頻道和多頻道影片和照片。凱瑟曾在麥克道威爾藝術中心、漢比奇中心、大西洋藝術中心和蒙塔爾沃藝術中心擔任駐村藝術家。 他的著作《龍捲風條約》被收錄於現代藝術博物館的藝術家書籍收藏中。凱瑟現居洛杉磯，是加州藝術學院戲劇學院的教師。他是 Automata 的聯合創始人兼聯合總監，這是一個由藝術家經營的非營利表演畫廊。
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Objects are profound carriers of meaning. Objects can evoke both a specific use (a pen is to write with) or suggest new meanings through their use (a pen, moved a certain way, might suggest a person walking down the street). Memory is often stimulated by seeing (color, shape) or touching (texture, weight) objects.
Object performance can harness the power of objects to tell stories in simple yet innovative ways. Workshop Participants will work collaboratively with a range of objects to create short performances (3 to 6 minutes) using the objects as sets, characters, and environments. The performances can be narrative or abstract, serious or humorous.
Working in small groups, participants can respond to text from any source as a starting point. However, the performances will use no spoken or sung words. The focus will be on the use of performed objects to illuminate the ideas or narratives in the text. Any sounds will be generated by using objects as well.
Following the presentations of the projects, if time allows, we will also view excerpts from the work of artists who perform with objects, including Hotel Modern, and Survival Research Laboratories.
Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its investigation of memory, power, and loss. Geiser is a Guggenheim Fellow, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, and a Creative Capital awardee. Geiser received the 2023 Stan Brakhage Vision Award, presented to a filmmaker “whose work pushes the limits in avant-garde and experimental filmmaking.” She was recently awarded a 2025-26 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island. “Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.” (—Holly Willis, Res, 2004).
Geiser’s films have been screened at the National Gallery of Art, Microscope Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, Pacific Film Archives, the Centre Pompidou, the Salzburg Museum, San Francisco MOMA, LACMA, the Sharjah Biennial, and NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Geiser’s films are in the collections of MOMA, The NY Public Library’s Donnell Media Center, CalArts, and the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive. Her film The Red Book is part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The Academy of Motion Pictures Archive has selected her work for preservation, and The Fourth Watch (2000) was selected by Film Comment as one of the top ten experimental films of the past decade.
One of the pioneers of the renaissance of American avant-garde puppet theater, Geiser creates innovative, hypnotic performances and installations that integrate performing objects, puppets, and projection. Her work has been presented at The Public Theater, the Wende Museum, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Redcat, The Walker Art Center, and The Getty Villa. Geiser’s performances have been recognized with an OBIE Award, a Bessie, and funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, NEA, Center for Cultural Innovation, MapFund, the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, a City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, and a Getty Villa Theater Lab commission.
Geiser’s 2025 exhibit at Five Myles Gallery, her 2018 exhibit at Track 16 Gallery, and 2014 exhibit at China Art Objects in Los Angeles, featured single and multiple channel videos and photographs. Geiser has received residencies at MacDowell, the Hambidge Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Montalvo. Her book The Tornado Treaty is in MOMA’s Artists Book Collection. Geiser lives in Los Angeles, and is on the faculty of CalArts School of Theater. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Automata, an artist-run nonprofit performance gallery.