This is the week in which we want to be surprised, but we also want to surprise you. Although we are not making a performance, opening to visitors is always a thing of itself. We want to share the scores we had been developing with all their characters and specificities. It is not sharing of results, but sharing of performative … Read More
Week 4
SHOOTING We did a shooting in nature with photographer Milena Wohjan. During the shoot, we produced both photographs and videos exploring a more fictional aspect of the project. The purpose of this session was to document the bodily research we conducted during our residency. Given our exploration of concepts like hyper-parasitism, we chose the forest as our backdrop for the … Read More
Woche 2
Introduction Layers of Intimacy is a practical and artistic research into the worlds of composition and sensuality. How do we make decisions when being intimate and/or composing sex with each other? What are the skills, nuanced sensibilities and compositional intelligences at work, and how do we train them? We are building upon an existing improvisation method, Present Time Composition (PTC) … Read More
Woche 3
Introduction Layers of Intimacy is a practical and artistic research into the worlds of composition and sensuality. How do we make decisions when being intimate and/or composing sex with each other? What are the skills, nuanced sensibilities and compositional intelligences at work, and how do we train them? We are building upon an existing improvisation method, Present Time Composition (PTC) … Read More
Week 3
We started the week by visiting a few neighbors of Moosach. Among them: Hubert, Kirstin, Holger and Michaela. We interviewed them interacting with the prostheses for the first time. Before starting we asked each of them to make a short introduction of themselves and to share in which part of their body they wanted to locate the prosthesis in and … Read More
Week 2
A non-essential glossary: They inject care into the bodies.They can create elegant, solemn, meditative or majestic, albeit teratologic, corporealities. By limiting movement they help to make sense of it.In what other possible environments or activities…care in both senses.symbiontare capable of bodily self-preservation.homeostasisdo not trigger human movement directly, but provoke or condition it indirectly.pieces of chaosa dance of blades is implanted.micropolitical … Read More
Week 1
DAY 1: Monday 21st BEFORE ENTERING IN CONTACT WITH THE PROSTHESES: We started with a writing exercise that was prior to the contact with the prostheses. Where we wrote about how we felt physically, what we imagined or wanted to do with the prostheses and what points of the body we wanted to intervene or explore with them. From what … Read More
Week 3
Since we had a lot to do this week, the diary entry will be kept short. Our week began with a reflection on collectivity. At the end of the second week of research, the question of the relationship between German and Arabic became the subject of our discussions. This issue arose in the context of our collective collaboration within a … Read More
Week 4
Our final week was intense and exciting. We completed our research work. Specifically, we created a final and definitive text version for ‘Autocracy On Air,’ which refers to a complete script for a one to two-hour theater play that can also be performed by other groups and theaters. While some team members spent the weekend in Leipzig, Saeed spent the … Read More
Woche 1
The aim of the research is to differentiate, analyse and train compositional elements that are relevant to the social improvisation of sex and intimate encounters. The research involves: The practical sessions are at the core of the research. They serve to differentiate, analyse and train compositional elements in the improvised performance of sex and intimate (physical) play. Both a tool … Read More
