Monthly Archives: January 2014

[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 →

[08. June 2013] SHIFTING THE HUMAN : TOUCHING MATTER With writer/philosopher Wallace Heim (UK) I offered a collaborative artistic research labs during the dance congress 2013 in Düsseldorf. We moved indoors and outdoors, witnessed and watched, touched and talked, washed … Continue reading →

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 →

[28. May 2012] artistic research lab and open studio @ Uferstudios Berlin research installation and discussion films, items, postcards, string, photographs, comments, leather, cloth, pins, costume a morning of quiet attentiveness, entering the installation through different pathways, playfully improvising with … Continue reading →

[10. May 2012] body, trees and things: final performance in the PhD-framework. From village church through fields and under trees, an afternoon near Stoneleigh village, close to Coventry. A site of ancient trees and airplanes, of criss-crossing and settling, of … Continue reading →

Welcome to body, trees and things – the final performance in the framework of my PhD. We’ll spend an afternoon at a tree site near Stoneleigh village, close to Coventry. There will be images, trees, performance, food and conversation. I’ve … Continue reading →

[15. Feb 2012] Moving on the outer edges of what has becomes visible as a triangle. These trees were planted in lines that meet each other – three corners, three trees, three little performances. In time you will find your … Continue reading →

[23. Nov. 2011] Me and a tree became me and two elderberry bushes, a ball of string, a white flag, an old dead oak in the background. A small audience arrangement. Three people watching from tree trunks and camping mat … Continue reading →

[08. Oct. 2011] Inviting known strangers to be among trees with a performer and a musician. It is early evening, quiet autumn. Not much movement in the atmosphere, but a shift into light and then it gets dark. Collective procession … Continue reading →

Throughout the year I have been working with musician Michaël Lacoult (double bass/objects) at a tree-site near Stoneleigh Abbey (Warwickshire). I am now considering this site as a possibility for one part of my practical PhD-examination in 2012. To ‘plough … Continue reading →

  Study day on Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman TaPRA interim event at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, May 27th, 2011 skin, touch, collective, resistance, chicken, anchor, skill I offered a performative response to The Craftsman, improvising … Continue reading →