"Digitally compatible body-based performance"

This seminar welcomes all 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: Each student will be asked to propose a performative idea that will be discussed in class. Practical exercises specific to each participant's concept will be suggested and their completion at home between courses will be required (1 x per month). These assignments will be presented to the group at the next meeting, in order to contribute to the development of a concrete, original, and individual performance project, which will constitute the final result of the seminar.

- Attendance and diligent participation in all meetings
- Completion of practical exercises done at home
- Presentation of the assignments to the group
- Presentation of a performance project as the final result of the seminar

- Practical and project-oriented course

- Number of participants limited

Please bring:

- your computer

- comfortable clothes for movement