Withdrawing the Performer

Withdrawing the Performer

With “Withdrawing the Performer. Facilitating Participatory Sense-Making”, Imani Rameses (Center Research Focus, PhD candidate PhD in Art), Charlotta Ruth (Angewandte Performance Lab), and Jasmin Schaitl (Angewandte Performance Lab) combine their...
Questionology

Questionology

Questionology is a research environment created by Cordula Daus and Charlotta Ruth. Together with a team of almost doctors they have designed a walk-in programme to train what might be the last genuinely human quality: to question, to be questioned. Participants are...
Underwater Light House

Underwater Light House

In the age of noise, it feels rather urgent to find a balanced relationship with silence. Perhaps for calming anxiety, or for regaining focus, silence invites us to listen beyond what is audible. During this participatory performance lecture, I will offer the...
W/O

W/O

The deepest and most archaic parts of the brain are more than 400 million years old – suggesting that “we have seen it all before”…Together, myself, Kelvin Burzon and Stephanie Barrientos suspend our visual modalities – attempting to see with the...
Things Not Seen

Things Not Seen

When given more than a moment with the idea, we come to recognize that faith is not merely a pious prerequisite or accidental byproduct of religion. Much more, faith instantiates the gratitude that can be found from the universally inescapable uncertainties of life. I...
Touch Can Tell

Touch Can Tell

Together, we explore touch as a tool and a method to activate and mobilize memories, thereby triggering empathy. This performative process seeks to investigate forms of intelligence and thought beyond brain-centered cognition. We examine what the human touch of...