How to think (with) bodies? How to grasp the embodied knowledge that informs and at the same time undermines our theorising? In eight encounters between transdisciplinary thinkers and artists, the international lecture series Body Concepts asks which bodies - and which realities of life - we pay attention to…

“Bodies, un-protected” was initiated by Mousonturm and curator Sandra Noeth before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out – an experience that has placed the question of what various different bodies need to be considered worth protecting or receive protection at the centre of our society. At the same time, the…

The pilot edition of the HZT-Research Week focuses on the idea of Shielding: practices and conceptual approaches in which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent and controversial status in the process: on the one hand, they serve as protection or as a buffer…

In the radical self-care, anti-discrimination and anti-racist body-based practices of conflict management and healing, settling the body is one of the primary aspects to begin the process of coming back to the body. Settling the body is a crucial moment in working with the body in performative and dance…

The ability to improvise, to be creative with one another, is an essential part of performance practice for the contemporary, creative musician and dancer, without which we are lost. Improvisation’s implementation can vary enormously, from a delineated tool towards choreographic/compositional ends, to being…

DFG-Research project (August 2015 - February 2020) Choreographic bodies are qualified through modes of expansion and transgression that correspond to aesthetic strategies which energise body, action, space and gaze.  My project focuses on the acts of presentation that are realized by such bodies through…

Jonathan Osborn is a Toronto-based choreographer, educator, and researcher. He holds degrees in English, Dance, and Dance Studies (PhD, York University). Jonathan focuses specifically on the solo form and his choreographic works have received support from municipal, provincial, and national funding bodies.…

In its second edition the Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes focused on contemporary feedback culture in regards to the audience. What can public feedback with audiences do for the artist and the audience itself? The laboratory explored alternatives to the artistic exchange based on explanation and…

Workshop, Performance, Symposium Whether walking together or on our own, we are always synchronizing and desynchronizing: swinging limbs, adjusting muscle tone, heartbeat, breathing… Our bodies are defined by a multiplicity of rhythms, which permanently influence each other. If we look closer into the…