The three-day gathering “On Crip Technique, Knowledge and Expertise” as part of Claire Cunningham's Einstein Strategic Professorship at HZT Berlin took place from 10 to 12 October 2025 at HAU2. Artists, allies and researchers from several countries came together to explore the aesthetic, political and philosophical potential of Crip techniques and knowledge via a range of artistic impulses, performance-lectures, installations and provocations.

In the coming weeks, documentation and content from some of the performance lectures presented will be published and made available online.

Intended as an alternative format to traditional symposia, this three-day event was part of the “Crip | Choreo | Care” team’s ongoing research at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin
(HZT).

Via a series of artistic provocations and interventions, invited disabled artists, allies and researchers explored aesthetic, political and philosophical potentialities of crip techniques, knowledge and expertise. Together they focused on their contribution in choreography and dance towards accessible, anti-ableist, crip positive futures – arising from their differing lived experiences, practices and the phenomenology of disability.

The gathering was made up of 6 core artistic offers, along with dedicated sessions for reflection and processing, conversation and exchange. As part of the program Claire Cunningham presented her performance-lecture “4 Legs Good-re/imagined” on Saturday.

With: Julia Watts Belser (USA), Eli Clare (USA), Kenny Fries (Berlin) & Sandie Yi (USA), Chiara Bersani (Italy), Dr Aby Watson (Scotland), Raquel Meseguer Zafe & Jamie McCarthy (UK,) Angela Alves & Jeanne Eschert (Berlin), Márcio Kerber Canabarro (Berlin) and Sindri Runudde (Sweden), Fia Neises (Berlin), Claire Cunningham (UK), Kate Brehme (Berlin), Diana Niepce (Portugal), Sandra Noeth (Berlin) and Kate Marsh (UK).