2024
September 26
Books in Dialogue
Singular-Plural: Between Theory and Practice
Singular-plural refers to being part of a shared experience as an individual. Currently under pressure from a radical individualism, the singular-plural as a figure of thought is at the center of three publications. These are positioned between performance theory and practice (Mariella Greil), between empirical social sciences and theater (Iris Julian) and between new materialisms and posthumanisms (Isabella Schlehaider). A singularly plural linguistic space unfolds in the dialog in order to sound out points of connection between the respective research approaches.
Depot in Vienna
April 24-26
Workshop
Faulting & Folding
Practices of touch, of nurturing attention, of thinking emerge as sensorial bodies. Each day, we will engage with a different stratum of the assemblage: the hydrocommons seeping through the folds of the earth, caressed by whirls of air.
In a workshop setting, we practice moving as a tangible, material practice of sense-making, developing fluency between thinking and doing, reading and moving, touching and dancing.
Choreo-ethical assemblages as mobile geology of morals (Deleuze and Guattari) bound to singular, aesthetic-communicative situations get probed in practice.
Various ‘alivenesses’ and hybrid entanglements occur, and we investigate the nanopolitical dimensions nested into choreo-ethical ecologies.
April 22-26
Morning Practice
Geographies of the body
Meridians as navigation routes interlace gravity and soul, horizon and touch. Based on my body archive, I share my training routine. Combining somatic practices (ideokinesis, myofascial work, BMC) with Meridian Stretches (Shizuto Masunaga) and contemporary dance training, we move with awareness and presence, breath and direction. In dialogue with the physical self, we hypersensitise the senses and explore embodiment in its contemporary complexity. A deep connection through sensations prepares us to be open to the experiment of dance!
April 22
Book Launch
Bare Bodies –
Thresholding Life
Following Mariella Greil’s Morning Practice and in anticipation of the workshop Faulting & Folding – a choreo-ethical assemblage TQW hosts the book presentation Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life (Angewandte, DeGruyter, Berlin 2024). This anthology is dedicated to bodies in transition, on thresholds, and at the edges of life, discussed in terms of their artistic, political and existential dimensions. The book is an artistic-philosophical exploration of emergence, survival and decay at the intersection of performance and life practices.
With: Mariella Greil (dancer, artistic researcher, editor of the book), Mia Habib (dancer and choreographer), Werner Moebius (sound artist), K.T. Zakravsky (performance artist and philosopher) and Anna Leon (TQW theory)
April 10 – 12
Special Interest Group: Language-based Artistic Research
SAR International Forum 2024 on Artistic Research
15th International Conference on Artistic Research.
Participation with the contribution Onomatopoetic Sound(e)scape – Slides and Slips
between Sound and Speech together with sound artist Werner Moebius. Onomatopoetic Sound(e)scape explores the interrelation of frequencies and investigates the acoustic phenomenon of slipping between abstract sound and concrete language. This project is a multisensory exploration, unearthing the expressive potential embedded in the onomatopoetic fabric of language.
Mariella Greil 