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2023 – Dancing Outdoors! – Contemporary Pioneers
2022 six month of intensive research have been funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the progam NEUSTART KULTUR. I continue to work on the project and a corresponding … Continue reading
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2023 – Mentorship Year “Walk of Life” with Helen Poynor
I am delighted and grateful to participate in the third year of Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life Training Programme in Non-stylised and Environmental Movement. It is most wonderful to return to regular practice and dedicated attention to movement and in … Continue reading
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2023 – UdK Mentoring Programme for highly qualified artists and researchers
I’m grateful and excited to be part of this group of exceptional people, probing art, power and how to be alive in educational structures. Here’s more about the mentorship programme of Berlin’s University of the Arts UdK.
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autumn 2022 – Space for Practice @ Floating University Berlin
Space for Practice auf dem Gelände der FLOATING UNIVERSITY, kuratiert und organisiert von Sabine Zahn und Alice Chauchat. Mittwochs, 9:00 – 11:00. Zeit und Raum für choreographische Praxis, Tanz, Bewegung: draußen! Kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung. Unterricht von und mit: Sabine … Continue reading
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september 2022 – Symposium Contingent Agencies in Vienna (AT)
Intensive Research Symposium at Zentrum Fokus Forschung in Vienna, part of the PEEK project Contingent Agencies by Nikolaus Gansterer & Alex Arteaga. An intense week of collective surrender – to place, atmosphere, agencies, time-space, world. All bound into each other, … Continue reading
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march 2022 – lecture-performance York University Toronto (online)
[13.03.2022] Sharing my work with the Somatics Working Group (Dance, Theatre & Performance Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies), invited by Dr. Bridget Cauthery. Intensive conversation on ideosyncratic practices of documentation, working from site, material engagements, trust.
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june 2022 – Sentient Performativities Dartington (UK)
[26 + 27.06.2022] Back to teaching and meeting in person: A day workshop in collaboration with dear friend, fellow movement person and Feldenkrais practitioner Sharon Gimpel Let there be rest – a dive into embodied shmita (26.06.2022) and a solo … Continue reading
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february 2022 – conversation / reading @ University of Leeds (online)
[09.02.2022] A conversation on intermateriality (in dance), (in writing), (in research) – organised by Dr. Fiona Bannon for the Centre for Practice-Led Research in the Arts. Moving, chatting, thinking, reading together – on practice, on theory. With depth and … Continue reading
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sept 2021 – january 2022 – Co-Researching with Joa Hug & collective
Embodied Research in a Digital Environment: the ‘Research Catalogue’ (RC) as an extended studio?! [Initated by Dr. Joa Hug, participating artist-researchers: Andrea Keiz, Joshua Rutter and Paula Kramer] In this collaborative research project we explored what lies beyond the (self-)understanding … Continue reading
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2023 – MORE TEACHING
This is my intention! If you are interested to join, get in touch. I am currently checking out possible studio & outdoor spaces.
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4.11.2021 – body.site.intermateriality session @Leeds University (online)
Sharing my work with Theatre and Performance students, organized by Dr. Fiona Bannon.
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SUOMENLINNA | GROPIUS (2021) – MY BOOK IS OUT!
Published by Triarchy Press, designed by Yimeng Wu and based on my postdoctoral research on intermateriality in outdoor performance. Supported by Uniarts Helsinki’s Centre for Artistic Research as well as the Publishing Committee of Uniarts and the Theatre Academy TEAK. … Continue reading
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july – september 2021, #Correspondancing – Amaara Raheem (online)
Joining Amaara Raheem in the early phase of her research residency with Critical Path (AUS), together with Shivanjani Lal, Preethi Athreya and Amy Voris. A series of conversations to which we brought objects, writing, dancing; opening up into conversations about … Continue reading
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august 2021 – presentation @ CARPA7 Helsinki (online)
[27.08.2021] A multi-media book presentation / contemplation / reflection in the context of CARPA7 – Elastic Writing in Artistic Research. > sharing > showing > opening my new book Suomenlinna | Gropius, produced in the context of my time as … Continue reading
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april 2019 – surface / spider @ Per/Forming Futures, Middlesex University
[12.04.2019] We sit in (semi)darkness as sounds, objects, words and images begin to interlace and correspond. What happened once somewhere? What did it feel like? What was once present and what is now here? How can this body- and site-based … Continue reading
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march 2019 – sensing the city, coventry university
[4. – 6.03.2019] A salon and two site-workshops, one facilitated by Sandra Reeve and one by myself. Part of the larger practice-based research project Sensing the City, funded through the AHRC. Sensing the City explores how practice can be utilised to … Continue reading
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august 2018 – on the surface of time – länsi-mustasaari, helsinki
[14. Aug. 2018] A workshop as a physical intorduction to a forthcoming performance. Inviting others to play with the sites and materials. Meeting, rolling, lying, writing, singing – inventing a signature. Being part-of and apart. Bodies, rock, sea, wind, feathers.
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august 2018 – on the surface of time – länsi-mustasaari, helsinki
[17 – 19.08.2018] I begin in the fold. Lying. Listening. Opening towards sounds. Sea, wind, birds, boats, airplanes, humans. On a small island of rock, cradled in the baltic sea. Here I begin. Distal end of my left arm moving … Continue reading
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october 2018 – meeting buoy @ gtf jahrestagung, karlsruhe
[06.10.2018] A multi-media experiment that exposes a particular part of my research on intermateriality and movement, based at Uniarts Helsinki. It interlaces documentary video clips of outdoor movement practice on the island Suomenlinna with live projections of drawings, materials and … Continue reading
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april 2018 – rock / crust / body / snow / face / buoy – kiasma, helsinki
[25.04.2018] Part of Tutke Spring Research Days. Mixing words, sounds and materials on a table top with pre-recorded videos of movement practice on Länsi-Mustasaari (Suomenlinna). Meeting outdoor practice in an indoor setting, testing what carries over and what emerges anew. … Continue reading
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march 2018 – about adequacy @ research as / in motion stockholm
[20.03.2018] Workshop on ‘adequacy’ in relationship to artistic research placed within academia (during ADIE intensive week for movement-based researchers): Adequacy not in the sense of ‘just enough’, but in the sense of demanding adequate conditions for artistic research to flourish … Continue reading
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february 2018 – body. work. desire @ Kiasma helsinki
[17.02.2018] A shared day with moving artists in Kiasma’s seminar room and out in the snow. Warming up, relying on, sinking in the wisdom and efficacy of body and materials. Considering current personal thresholds and questions, asking what is relevant. … Continue reading
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august 2017 – “with plants”, helsinki
[29.08.2017] “With Plants” – a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary event aimed at artists, researchers and scholars who are working with plants in various ways. Organised by Annette Arlander. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. I participated with: Picking-cooking-eating edible plants as part … Continue reading
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august 2017 – a day in the gallery – exhibition laboratory, helsinki
[26.08.2017] Shared day long event with Kirsi Heimonen and Jyrki Siukonen in the Exhibition Laborartory, Helsinki. Taking stock of a year of post-doctoral artistic research. Meeting films with pens and pencils, moments of conversation, moments of recognising, moments of touching. … Continue reading
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august 2017 – tanzen im hof – tanzfabrik berlin – with susanne martin
[1.8.2017] Every first day of the month (1.6., 1.7., 1.8., 1.9., 1.10.2017), 2 choreographers meet with dance lovers, with and without dance experience to enter a physical dialogue and a sharing of movements with them. Playing with the Uferstudio garden, … Continue reading
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july 2017 – how do we …? @ DSP coventry
[7. – 9.7. 2017] Collaboration with geographer and social theorist Prof. Nigel Clark and choreographer and doctoral researcher Simo Kellokumpu. Mini-residency during the 4th Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, co-creation of a gallery space and performance. How do we collaborate … Continue reading
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june 2017 – workshop @ NOFOD – göteborg
[14. – 17.06.2017] Dance, Deviation & Public Spaces Workshop at NOFOD 2017: “Dance and Democracy”. Playing and experimenting with the norms of acceptable behaviour in public spaces and the potential of dance to reconfigure them. Fluidity between normal-not-normal. Drag en … Continue reading
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may 2017 – testlauf eins/testrun one – Martin-Gropius-Bau
[16. + 17.05.2017] One-to-one performative format on two days, collaboration with Sabine Zahn. In parallel: a walk with somatic interventions and Sabine, a pic-nic, conversation and site-based performance in three parts with Paula. Sunny and rainy, strawberries, sloe jam and … Continue reading
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april 2017 – lab @ SAR conference – helsinki
[28.04.2017] Body-based Research and Dissemination – A Collective Exploration & Participatory Methodology Lab (collaboration with dancer and doctoral researcher Joa Hug). A participatory lab, exploring *body* practices in the field of artistic research. How does the body stay “in”? Engrained into … Continue reading
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june 2017 – #CHARP – research pavilion venice
[30 June 2017] Performance and artistic exam in the framework of Simo Kellokumpu’s doctoral artistic research on Athmospheric Choreography. Collaborators: Outi Condit, Paula Kramer and Vincent Roumagnac. Everything is already in movement, movement is everywhere. Particles moving, the building decaying, … Continue reading
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summer term 2017 – artistic research – BA seminar @ HKS Ottersberg
Co-teaching with Prof. Gabriele Schmid at HKS – University of applied sciences and arts in Ottersberg. A very diverse group of students – theatre pedagogues, visual artists and art therapist. Does artistic research ruin the art? Does it have to … Continue reading
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2016 – 2019 Suomenlinna
This is how my research on Suomelinna began: A new place, a new country, a new site. Everything is unknown. I begin to work, here and there now. Here: Rocks, water, military. On my first day (16.12.2016) I walk all … Continue reading
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2016 – 2019 Martin-Gropius-Bau
Exploring a site in Berlin. A stranger in a known place. Behind buildings, on a nodal point. Here is everything at once – remnants of Nazi Germany, a long stretch of the wall, the city parliament, a refugee accomodation, a … Continue reading
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november 2016 – a rock sent to amaara raheem (experiment)
One white rock – hand-to-hand – now on its way to you. (2.11.2016) A work in progress. Rock still en route (as of 2021). And otherwise: Our dance is a correspondance; an enquiry into multiple modes of transference and transformation, … Continue reading
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november 2016 – lecture @ KuvA – academy of fine arts, helsinki
[2.11.2016] Lecture/investigation on/of Intricate Relationships – Art, Site-Specificty and Research in the series Reframing the Artwork, curated by Annette Arlander and Mika Ehlo. Lovely group and lovely work. Exploring material as a connective force in site work and artistic research. Approaching … Continue reading
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september 2016 – rock/body exeter
Working with — a granite from Cornwall (formerly from the Equator), a 300 year old Lucombe Oak, a Stone Oak in the further distance, liquidized China Clay, quarry man David A. Paton, choreographer Carolyn Deby and video artist Annette Arlander. … Continue reading
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july 2016 – being with this world @ IDOCDE symposium vienna
[29. – 31. Jul 2016] Teaching at the 4th IDOCDE Symposium on Contemporary Dance Education at ImPulsTanz. Dancing bodies taking seriously – the asphalt, the grass, the shadows, the foam and other strange stuff donated by the folks upholstering seating … Continue reading
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february – october 2016 – reflecting with practice – joa hug
A research project in three phases – Berlin I + Helsinki I & II. Framed and directed by Joa Hug as part of his doctoral research project at the University of the Arts Helsinki on the epistemic potential of Body … Continue reading
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april 2016 – moving & making, sant cugat – lecture and workshop
[26. + 28. April 2016] Moving & Making: Experiments with Body, Space and Material Happy return to ETSAV, the Vallès Higher Technical School of Architecture in Sant Cugat. Organised by Marta Serra-Permanyer and Prof. José-Luis Oyon. Working in the big … Continue reading
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14 – 18 mar 2016 – artist retreat/research phase – coventry
One week in Coventry with dance artist Sandra Reeve, exploring the Contexts of Time and Space in Ecological Movement. Organised as part of a wider research project by Emma Meehan. Sandra Reeve facilitated a closed artist’s retreat, exploring the context of … Continue reading
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may 2015 – HZT artistic research phase and workshop with alys longley
[8. – 26.05.2015] Collaboration with Alys Longley (NZ) at HZT Berlin. We brought to this research phase aspects of our main practises – experimental documentation (Alys) and materiality orientated movement (Paula) and offered these worlds to each other. Together we … Continue reading
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may 2015 – presentation at NOFOD – reykjavik
[30.05.2015] Moving, Writing, Living – Experimental documentary practices in site-specific dance research. A work-in-progress presentation in collaboration with Alys Longley (NZ). A room filled with cards, cloth, an accordion book and a few items from Reykjavik’s beach. Collective explorations of … Continue reading
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july 2015 – the sheep are black and white … @ DSP coventry
the sheep are black and white & they are not black and not white Duet with Bettina Mainz, ca. 40 min trials, correlations, incidences and independencies, practiced in performance in the company of things, objects and materials Working with aspects … Continue reading
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october 2014 – body, thing, material – somatische akademie berlin
[29.10.2014] [body, thing, material – somatic encounters] Der Oktober-Salon der Somatischen Akademie Berlin widmete sich im Gespräch mit Katja Münker und mir der Welt der Ding- und Stofflichkeiten. — Körper, Ding, Material. — Struktur, Gewicht, Temperatur. — Luftzug, Arm, Eisenbahn. … Continue reading
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july 2014 – movement, environment and mindfulness, milwaukee
[17. July 2014] A workshop with young people, participants of the GATE (Global Action Through Engagement) summer programme for High School students at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA). A couple of walks around and in the campus woods, in … Continue reading
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march 2014 – daffodil lab @ C-Dare coventry
[11. March 2014] 4 white tables, a waterbowl, some daffodils with bulbs and earth. tea, butter, bread and jam. a page of writing becomes a paper boat. A set up for a daffodil cake? [Sarah wonders] A sharing … Continue reading
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november 2013 – smash theory session @ agora berlin
[17. November 2013] Constructing bodies in a cul de sac: evoking the abstract or provoking the explicitness? A shared evening event with Marc Carrera (Tatwerk Berlin) and Michael Neuber; part of the theory session series of the physical performance trainging … Continue reading
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july 2013 – the walk in phd @ DSP conference coventry
[12. July 2013] At the Dance and Somatic Practices Conference 2013 (Coventry University) I presented my research installation The Walk-In PhD. It offered the possibility to step into my research process and engage with its current form, move with objects, … Continue reading
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august 2012 – publication of performance research 17.4 “on ecology”
I have co-edited the issue entitled ‘On Ecology’ of Performance Research together with Stephen Bottoms and Aaron Franks. It was published in August 2012, including my article “Bodies, Rivers, Rocks and Trees: Meeting agentic materiality in contemporary outdoor dance practice.” … Continue reading
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