Atelier: Shifting and Morphing. Skills of Artistic Displays: Dance, Choreography …

31 March – 01 April 2022
In cooperation with Institute of Dance Arts (IDA)
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Oberösterreich, Linz (Austria)
Konzept + Realisierung: Rose Breuss, Claudia Jeschke, Andreas Backoefer. The Cambridge Dictionary paraphrases the verb ‘to morph’ with “to gradually change, or change someone or something, from one thing to another”. Highlighting the metaphoric quality of the transitory as well as transient connotation of the term, the object-based ‘morphing’ brings about – as does the time-based ‘shifting’ – untried strategies and fresh artistic procedures that are operationalized as well as contextualized in the multiple (and distinct) media transformations of e.g. doing dancing and/or video art.
Thus, the laboratory format of the artistic-academic Atelier intends to understand morphing and shifting as dynamic converters of knowledge production in body/movement-related arts by embracing experiments with and strategies of agency, experience and visualization in movement research, scoring, historiography, praxeology… The Atelier asks about the peculiarity of non-discursive practices of thought in (dance) arts, their aesthetic obstinacy and their own validity.