Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Suchen Sie hier über ein Suchformular im Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Leuphana.

Veranstaltungen von Bitsy Knox


Lehrveranstaltungen

Embodied Correspondences: A Practice-Based Seminar on Improvisation (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Bitsy Knox

Termin:
 14-täglich | Mittwoch | 18:15 - 19:45 | 10.04.2024 - 08.05.2024 | C 25.015 Kunstraum
14-täglich | Freitag | 14:15 - 19:45 | 12.04.2024 - 10.05.2024 | C 25.015 Kunstraum

Inhalt: “Whole bodies are oriented and structurally responsive to their environments, and whole persons, and not isolated internal parts of persons, refer {to} and are about things in those environments.” [Ellie Epp, Being About]. “I do make transparent the interaction between the thoughts that are not completely formed, that maybe you’re afraid to completely form, and the thoughts that are formed, and that this goes on in all of us, that it opens up a window for someone watching and responding to it with their own process of conscious and unconscious working together.” [Simone Forti, Interviewed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, The Third Rail]. How do we process an unfolding event somatically, as well as linguistically? This seminar roots itself in a study of improvisation as inherently responsive to the unstable—and often indeterminate—climatic, cultural, social, and political conditions of its practice. Drawing on the work and writing of activists, artists, dancers, thinkers, filmmakers, musicians, and musicologists Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Ellie Epp,Simone Forti, Milford Graves, George E. Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, and Christina Sharpe, we will critically explore core concepts of improvisation through modes of perceiving and cultivating attention, and of noticing attractions and patterns. Through exercises, readings, and discussions, we will seek to revise a working definition of correspondence (literally: answering together, from the Latin spondere: to pledge, to promise) beyond the epistolary, to consider shared processes of co-responsiveness as inherently improvisational, and existing between the body-minds and the systems they exist with and within. Interpolating these investigations, the Düsseldorf/Vienna-based multi-disciplinary artist, student of cognitive scientist, and Dhrupad singer Harkeerat Mangat will deliver a guest lecture and discussion; Christopher Weickenmeier will introduce a selection of films by the filmmaker Ellie Epp; and Bitsy Knox will lead a field trip on foraging clay, investigating the formation of a (sculptural) body in relation to its environmental and extractive conditions.