SELF-AS-OTHER,
OR EMBODIMENT AS PRACTICE BEYOND RELATIONAL SPHERES
The workshop invites participants to explore practices of kinaesthetic empathy as applied tools for dissecting and reflecting on relational spheres and power relations.
In building a collective and safer space through artistic as well as bodily experimentation they investigate, how the body functions as a tool for reflection in various diametric spaces such as the political and personal or the collective and individual. Through bodily exercises and performative research methodologies, they explore the potentiality and limits of kinaesthetic empathy by experimenting with interventions of the body as a materiality. By observing, analysing and describing the choreographies of specific situations, where complex social relations and power dynamics intersect, they experiment with the design of performative and experiential settings discuss their application outside of the classroom.
Workshop impressions here with students of the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies as part of the semester project “What we wear: Clothes – Codes – Messages”, Bauhaus University Weimar.
