︎︎︎ Aktuelles/Projects
︎︎︎ Künstler_innen/Artists
︎︎︎ Verein/Association
︎︎︎ Spenden/Donation
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︎︎︎ Künstler_innen/Artists
︎︎︎ Verein/Association
︎︎︎ Spenden/Donation
︎︎︎ Erasmus+
Der Verein bezweckt die Förderung des künstlerischen Schaffens und dessen Vermittlung mit Fokus auf bewegende Kunstformen (u.a. Performance, Tanz, Video und mobile Baukunst sowie deren interdisziplinäre Synthese).
The association aims to promote artistic creation and its mediation with a focus on moving art forms (including performance, dance, video and mobile construction art as well as their interdisciplinary synthesis).
L'association a pour but de promouvoir la création artistique et sa transmission en mettant l'accent sur les formes d'art en mouvement (entre autres la performance, la danse, la vidéo et l'architecture mobile ainsi que leur synthèse interdisciplinaire).
PLASTICITY / 2024 / participative LAB
During a month Maja Renn had the enormous pleasure to run a LAB on the subject of Plasticity at the fabulous space of the Zimmermannhaus.
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HOMEOSTATIC MOVEMENT / ongoing / participatory sessions
Participatory sessions of the Homeostatic Movement consist of gentle and meditative dance exercises, translating the eternal, perpetual dance of trees in nature into the physicality and timescale of the human body.
Through a selection of individual, couple, and group tasks, we explore themes of rhizomatic entanglement, mutual nurturing, and the delicate balance of homeostasis.
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CANOPY KIN / 2024 / performance
Canopy Kin is a performative piece, interpreting scientific findings on the intricate relationships between two different tree species into a choreographic score for two dancers. Informed by the latest observations of scientists from the Plant Ecology Research Laboratory (EPFL), the piece illustrates the complex system of collaboration and competition among tree species in heterogeneous forest communities.
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TERRA INCOGNITA / ongoing / performative research
Terra Incognita is a performative research plunging into the depths of Earths interior.
It searches non-invasive ways to understand the Earths constitution though exploring the human body in geological metaphors and shifting our sensory abilities to navigate the darkness and narrowness of underground spaces, learning from the organisms of the deep biosphere.
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LUCID / 2023 / performative research
Lucid is the first attempt to implement the Tentacular Dreaming movement-based participatory research method for a scripted performance. The method draws upon collective conscious dreaming practices as well as contemporary neuroscience, linking the ability to dream with the capacity for empathy. Using a somatic tasks and guidelines, it applies dreaming principles to collective embodied experiences, setting the stage for letting go of patterns and for rehearsing alternative narratives for more response-able futures.
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NURTURE SALON / 2023 / participatory performance
LIKE HUMAN / 2021 / video