“Performance’s being.. becomes itself through disappearance.” (Peggy Phelan)

In every beginning and end there is a touch. When we breathe, we touch the air. When we stand or walk, we touch the ground. When we enter the room with our presence, the room is “touched” by us. How do we negotiate space in our togetherness, how do we organise our corporeality? When is a body absent, when is it present? In this laboratory we examined the nature of beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures. Using improvisation and compositional tools, we build from various physical techniques – drawing on touch, distance and proximity, interconnectivity of bodies – investigating forms of togetherness.This performance laboratory took place over a four-day intensive period at Gutshof Sauen in Brandenburg.

14.12.2023 Presentation at TIER, Berlin (Institute of Endotic Research)

UdK Berlin
Faculty of Fine Art
Performance & Time Based Media Class ter Heijne