Category Archives: Research

Das Kartenset Choreographie & Urbane Praxis ist veröffentlicht und kann hier runtergeladen werden! The card set Choreography & Urban Practice has been published and is available for download here! Das Kartenset lädt ein, über Stadtgestaltung aus choreographischer Perspektive nachzudenken. Insgesamt … Continue reading →

[5.-8.10.2023] Beautiful, complex and intensive days in Ostia, near Rome. Among ruins, with trees, in water, with many people. “Beginning with where we are” is a personal commitment I take forward from here, as well as to time and plan … Continue reading →

[4.-7.9.2023] Four days of intensive peer research @ Floating University, curated & organized by Sabine Zahn, Alice Chauchat and Dan Belasco Rogers. Strengthening a common awareness of the specificities and needs of what outdoor practitioners/choreographers do, without reducing it all … Continue reading →

[14. – 16.12.2022] Denklabor Choreography, Dance and Urban Practice: Questions, Theses, Perspectives – three days with experienced peers exploring the particular contributions and potentials of embodied practices dealing with “the city”, “sites”, “environments” and everything else taking place outdoors … Participants: … Continue reading →

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 →

[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.

  [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 →

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 →

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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

[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 →

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 →

[14. – 18.03.2016] 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 … Continue reading →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

[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 →

In the context of the Nordic Forum for Dance Research 2011 (NOFOD), I presented a research installation – a material as well as metaphorical communication tool of my research. Both static and ‘there’, yet also processual and continuously changing through the intervention of … Continue reading →

Second international meeting @ dansBURG in the Catalan Pyrenees: Obreros Espaciales: Laboratori transversal de arquitectura i dansa – Space Workers: transversal laboratory of architecture and dance.

In collaboration with architects Pepe Ramos and Marta Serra I started the research network obreros espaciales, in English space workers, in German raumarbeiter. We invite architects, dancers and others who have dealings with space into moments of collective investigations. The first … Continue reading →

With dance and movement therapist Montse Martí I embarked on a photographic and movement based investigation of what arises when we listen to space. What we found was an intense inscription of individual and collective memory into a location. The … Continue reading →