This course guides and supports you in devising and performing. It results in an open performative event at the APL studios. 

Note; It is possible to participate without performing.

This course focuses on performative interactions that explore the haptic nature of things highlighting the exhilarating experience of the body when given over to working with real stuff.

Within a fantastic realm we open out the personal, relational, and metaphysical manner in which we engage with objects and each other.

We touch upon the philosophy of Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) and physically demonstrate this theory. OOO asserts a radical and imaginative realism that claims that things do exist beyond the purview of human conception. 

The course is grounded in practical and physical based practice employing visual art and choreographic perspectives and utilising compositional/generative tools such as; movement improvisation, object and material experimentation and compositional tools i.e tempo, rhythm, space, texture etc. 

The course will take place in stages;

• discovering the performative qualities of material/objects, finding and making a object/material/sculpture performance collaborator
• Guided moment explorations to generate choreographic material
• Collecting, composing and performing physical material 
• Informal chats about what opportunities there are in Vienna for creating performance works

 Materials do more than transmit; they derail assumptions.
They resist propagation. 
They create doubt.
They generate new ways of thinking, of imagining, of inventing.
Material and mind, Christopher Bardt

Asher O’Gorman (Choreography, Visual Art)

asherogorman.com

• Attendance and participation
• Creation and realisation of a mini performance (performed at APL studio)
• Submission of ‘Three poetic sentences’ reflecting the process

Limited places: Maximum 15 students

Language: English

Access: Feel to dialogue with me about accessibility needs 

Open to: Persons who have an interest in: Performance, Improvisation, composing/choreographing, Materials

All students of various departments are welcome