August 2007

Pairs & Quads

Stills

September 2007

Pairs, Triples, Quads & Group

Stills

October 14 & 21

Video: 4 min to download

Gymcraftics  Practice October 28, 2007 Video  {2.5min to download}

Project Description

What is it that happens to people who participate in gymcraftics? Those of us who have done it have our ideas. In order to observe others new to it, and to record their reactions, we are proposing series of gatherings in which a variety of people: all ages, genders, backgrounds, interests, and nationalities have an opportunity to try and explore gymcraftics.

We will record the sessions and integrate them into a variety of forms for sharing: still photograph montages, slide shows, videos, movies and articles.

Notes from earlier times:

A student, age 14 - Philadelphia - 1970's wrote:

"Gymcraftics is a combination of gymnastics and craftsmanship, but a different kinds of craftsmanship. Instead of forming bowls or pottery, you form your own body. You build your body alone and in doubles, with another. Working to music sooths your mind. Boys in our class are gaining a lot of confidence in themselves and in each other."

A  parent wrote about his and his children's participation in Gymcraftics in the 1960's:

-" As muscles and abilities develop, human beings learn to unfreeze and to react to things around them: light, music, throbbing rhythms and other human beings. People learn to acknowledge one another in their individual movements and in their interdependence to reach a result...To an observer, the variety in the group's human shapes, sizes and complexions is as interesting as the variety in their minds, viewpoints and temperaments as they work through the meaning and significance of this experience - gymcraftics."

     Photographs

Gymcraftics is people creating together: