Performative Symposium
Museum Folkwang
21 – 23 September 2018

Concept Luísa Saraiva
Curation Luísa Saraiva & Isabel Hufschmidt

As an experimental conference format, Corporeality will combine various sessions, including discussion groups, lectures and performances. These will be followed by moderated discussions between the invited speakers, performers and the audience. Each session is focused on a specific topic. The distinct modules of Corporeality aim to appreciate and make tangible the role of the body as the predominant agency organizing human experience.

In this context, notions of Embodied Cognition and Enactivism, as well as of Systems Theory will come into play. In all of this, a special focus is placed on the notion of compassion as an embodied practice. In the field of contemporary dance it has become common to speak of the primacy of the body, embodied practices, openness and trans-individuality. But what does this mean in relation to creative processes? Which effect does it have on the way in which we approach and understand dance? The performative three-day symposium hopes to sketch and test out an interdisciplinary involvement with audience appeal in relation to active research and artistic analysis devoted to the leading questions in contemporary dance.

The format of Performative Symposium was conceived and developed for Museum Folkwang in collaboration with the curator for Research, Scientific Cooperations and Provenance Research Isabel Hufschmidt.

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Alice Chauchat
Volmir Cordeiro
Aimar Pérez Galí
Senem Gökce Ogultekin
Roman Pfeifer

LECTURERS

ANSELM FRANKE
PROF. DR. MED. DR. PHIL. THOMAS FUCHS
MICHAEL M. DITTMANN M.A.
PROF. DR. JUDITH SIEGMUND
DR. THOMAS SZANTO
ANNA-CAROLIN WEBER, M.A.

MODERATORS