Artistic Practice: A cross-course experiment - "Embodied Spaces" and "Digital formats 2" 

Marie-Claude Poulin and Flora Watzal are launching a joint course project in the summer semester 2025. Together with the students we will develop performative sketches and concepts and explore the intersections between body, space and technology in the context of site-specific art.

The starting point of the seminar are small performative interventions – captured by different types of cameras – and embedded in the premises of the Paulusplatz 5 building. It examines how technological dispositives transform the experience of the site and reconfigure it through interaction. These experiments will be subsequently used for critical analysis and artistic processes.

How is space (re)created through the camera lens? Which kinds of witness-personas arise? What if the camera follows body movement? What if the body is directed by the camera? Which kinds of performative fragments emerge? Does the process evoke mental labyrinths? Media antechambers? What scenarios unfold?

In this collaboration, Marie Claude Poulin will focus on the reflection and experimental investigation of the interaction of bodies with physical and digital spaces.
The work with video – and the specific dispositive of the camera – will be guided by Flora Watzal.

The courses "Embodied spaces" and "Digital Formats 2" will be held together.
Please register for both courses and make sure that you have time on all dates!

More info at Base Angewandte „digitale Formate 2“

- Attendance and diligent participation in minimum 80% of the meetings (60% )
- Completion of practical and reflective exercises at home and presentation of the assignments to the group (40%).

- Practical and project-oriented course

- Number of participants limited

- Open to all university students

Please bring:

- Your computer

- Comfortable clothes for movement