“Intermixing digital and body-based performance”

 Hosted by the Digital Art Department at the VZ7 facility, this seminar welcomes students who are interested in combining analog and digital performance as a creator and/or as a performer, or as a collaborator/designer.

Context: Embracing practices and discourses related to performative somatic practices and the digital arts, this workshop stands in the context of post-digitality: where the tools to collect corporeal data are ubiquitous and increasingly available, redefining the field of performance arts; and where the digital arts break out of the confinement of the screen to re-read the space of the real and the field of multimodal perception.

Objective: As a first step, participants will be introduced to the basics of bodily performance. They will quickly learn to rely on solid methodological foundations that will support them in sketching artistic works of performative bodily and digital hybridization, while avoiding the clichés that may be attached to it. The aim is to develop a critical reflection on the artistic potential of intermixing body language and digital media, an asset in the creation of transdisciplinary artworks.

Method and outcome: Work is partly done in the classroom-studio, where body awareness practices will be performed in-group. Participants will be guided to create performative work-sketches intertwining analog and digital concepts. They can also develop their existing performance projects in greater depth. Alone or in teams, they will practice translating and transposing body-based performative parametres into other media parametres in an interdisciplinary approach. In this process, a suitable format for a future augmented physical performance (live performance, video, or installation) will be determined. The outcome is the realization of original augmented performance work-sketches.

Examination modalities:

Regular presence and active participation are required.

- Project development will be carried out within the framework of the seminar.

- The development of the works outside class-time is expected.

- The course is held mainly in English and partly in German.

- Practical and project-oriented course

- Number of participants limited: registration deadline is October 10th, 2019

- Please bring your computer and comfortable clothes for movement

"Be careful! This seminar will now be always at the VZ7 building!" 

The course is part of the APL (Angewandte Performance Laboratory).