A Thinking Practice 10-11 juni
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Vi är väldigt glada för att bjuda in till del två av det symposium som hölls i höstas! A Thinking Practice är ett praktiknära symposium om kollektiva kunskapsprocesser i relation till asymmetriska maktrelationer, lyssnande, snusk, icke-vetande och begär. Symposiet är initierat utifrån ett intresse att arbeta kollektivt, inom både koreografi och samhällsplanering. Vi har helt enkelt en längtan efter ett utrymme för att tänka, känna, organisera och göra tillsammans med andra.

I fokus för symposiet är ett praktiskt undersökande av tänkandets former. Vi anser att alla tankar tänks från någonstans, i relation till ett görande och till tidigare tänkta tankar. Vi ser därför att hur vi tänker är avgörande för vad som tänks. Genom vilka praktiker kan vi lyssna till det som vi inte redan vet? Kan vi öva vår uppmärksamhet för att bli mer tillgängliga för varandra, för det oförståeliga och för det opaka? Och hur kan vi uppmuntra varandra till att tänka, i alla dess former, för att möjliggöra gemensam förändring?

Symposiet är kostnadsfritt och ett detaljerat program presenteras inom kort.
Anmäl dig till: anmalan@medborgarhuset.se

Fredag 10e juni
10.00-11.00 Introduction – Sofia Wiberg, Stina Nyberg & Sebastian Dahlqvist
11.00-13.00. Collective bodies, coexistence and cats (interspecies encounters)
11.00-11.30 Call, Confusion and Response – exploring interspecies agency through sound-based collective embodiment. Eduardo Abrantes
11.40-12.40 Transindividuality and mnemotechnics. Ana Vujanovic
12.40-13.00 Petting the cat. Pontus Pettersson
13.00-13.45 LUNCH
13.45-14.45 Orientation, disorientation and how movement thinks
13.45-14.05 Thought, Body, Movement. Anna Enström
14.05-14.25 A Dancing-Thinking Practice. Eleanor Bauer
14.25-14.45 How can we think together when our language for social futures feels emptied out? Oda Brekke
14.45-15.00 FIKA
15.00 – 17.00 Cultivating collective desires
15.00-16.00 Rewilding the Social – a Repository for Situated Knowledge. Kibandu Pello-Esso & Xiyao Chen
16.00-16.20 Food dance for the back. Tove Salmgren och Ellen Söderhult
16.20-16.40 Life of the party. Pedram Nasouri
16.40-17.00 Sebastian Dahlqvist

Lördag 11e juni
10.00-10.30 Introduction – Sofia Wiberg, Stina Nyberg & Sebastian Dahlqvist
10.30-13.00 Care, interruptions and embodied fantasies
10.30-11.00 What Else Might the Van. Andros Zins-Browne
11.00-11.45 Words of Care: Myths, Realities, Imaginaries. Elke Krasny
11.45 -12.00 FIKA
12.00-13.00 Edge. Chrysa Parkinson
10.30-13.30 (Parallel session) The Unquiet Veil. A Living Person’s Guide to Death Magick in Four Unfinished Songs. Áron Birtalan, co-hosted by Gabriel Widing.
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.30 Dirty streets, bodies and thoughts
14.00-14.20 Strained anatomies – intentional and accidental explorations of holes and some other stories. Juli Apponen
14.20-15.50 Delivering dirty (fostering filthy frictions against the cleaned-up contemporary city). Amy Boulton, Rosa Danenberg, Benjamin Gerdes, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin
14.20-15.50 Bodies, behaviors and getting lost
14.20-15.20 (Parallel session)Get out of here. Disorder
15.30- 15.50 (Parallel session) The ramp, the score and the sociographer. Åsa Bjerndell, Jenny Övergaard, Carole Douillard, Tiril Hasselknippe, Sophia Persson
15.50-16.30 Digestive thinking. Laressa Dickey, Darya Efrat, Sara Kaaman and Alexis Steeves
16.30-17.00 Concluding discussion

MEDVERKANDE
Eduardo Abrantes, Juli Apponen, Eleanor Bauer, Áron Birtalan, Åsa Bjerndell, Amy Boulton, Oda Brekke, Xiyao Chen, Sebastian Dahlqvist, Rosa Danenberg, Laressa Dickey, Disorder, Darya Efrat, Anna Enström, Benj Gerdes, Tiril Hasselknippe, Sara Kaaman, Elke Krasny, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin, Pedram Nasouri, Chrysa Parkinson, Kibandu Pello-Esso, Sophia Persson, Pontus Pettersson, Tuija Roberntz, Tove Salmgren, Alexis Steeves, Ellen Söderhult, Cara Tolmie, Ana Vujanovic, Gabriel Widing, Andros Zins-Browne, Jenny Övergaard

VILKA ÄR “VI”?
Symposiet arrangeras av Stina Nyberg (koreograf och dansare) och Sofia Wiberg (forskare i samhällsplanering) i samarbete med Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Vårt intresse i kollektivt arbete baseras på en längtan efter hållbara arbetsrelationer och möjligheten att utforska olika sätt att vara i samhället på. Tillsammans delar vi ett intresse för deltagande praktiker, kroppslig kunskap och pinsamma möten.

A Thinking Practice is a practice based symposium addressing collective learning processes in relation to listening, asymmetries, filth, not-knowing and desire. We long for a space to think, feel, organize and practice with others. A space where we, despite knowing that we won’t find any simple solutions, engage with each other in an unknown future.

The symposium is initiated from an interest in working collectively, from the perspective of the fields of choreography and urban planning. We believe that in times of urgencies, in moments of doubt, in seconds of fear, we must gather and think. And thinking does not mean big Thought, but a practice which involves every nerve and every relation. A thinking that involves paying attention to that which is already there in order to imagine what could be. We notice each other because we are at stake to each other.

The focus of the symposium is to practically investigate forms of thinking. We believe that all thoughts are thought from somewhere – in relation to a practice and to thoughts previously thought. We therefore see that how we think is crucial for what we think. Through which practices can we attune ourselves to listen for that which we do not already know? What practices of attention help us to be available for others, for the not-understandable, for the opaque? And how can we encourage each other to think, in all its multitude of practices, in order to create collective change?

PRESENTING AT THE SYMPOSIUM
Eduardo Abrantes, Juli Apponen, Eleanor Bauer, Áron Birtalan, Åsa Bjerndell, Amy Boulton, Oda Brekke, Xiyao Chen, Sebastian Dahlqvist, Rosa Danenberg, Laressa Dickey, Disorder, Darya Efrat, Anna Enström, Benj Gerdes, Tiril Hasselknippe, Sara Kaaman, Elke Krasny, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin, Pedram Nasouri, Chrysa Parkinson, Kibandu Pello-Esso, Sophia Persson, Pontus Pettersson, Tuija Roberntz, Tove Salmgren, Alexis Steeves, Ellen Söderhult, Cara Tolmie, Ana Vujanovic, Gabriel Widing, Andros Zins-Browne, Jenny Övergaard

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The symposium takes place at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus at 10-17 on the 10-11th of June. Detailed program will be announced shortly.
Participation is free and a detailed program will soon be presented.
Register at: anmalan@medborgarhuset.se.

Friday June 10th
10.00-11.00 Introduction – Sofia Wiberg, Stina Nyberg & Sebastian Dahlqvist
11.00-13.00. Collective bodies, coexistence and cats (interspecies encounters)
11.00-11.30 Call, Confusion and Response – exploring interspecies agency through sound-based collective embodiment. Eduardo Abrantes
11.40-12.40 Transindividuality and mnemotechnics. Ana Vujanovic
12.40-13.00 Petting the cat. Pontus Pettersson
13.00-13.45 LUNCH
13.45-14.45 Orientation, disorientation and how movement thinks
13.45-14.05 Thought, Body, Movement. Anna Enström
14.05-14.25 A Dancing-Thinking Practice. Eleanor Bauer
14.25-14.45 How can we think together when our language for social futures feels emptied out? Oda Brekke
14.45-15.00 FIKA
15.00 – 17.00 Cultivating collective desires
15.00-16.00 Rewilding the Social – a Repository for Situated Knowledge. Kibandu Pello-Esso & Xiyao Chen
16.00-16.20 Food dance for the back. Tove Salmgren och Ellen Söderhult
16.20-16.40 Life of the party. Pedram Nasouri
16.40-17.00 Sebastian Dahlqvist

Saturday June 11th
10.00-10.30 Introduction – Sofia Wiberg, Stina Nyberg & Sebastian Dahlqvist
10.30-13.00 Care, interruptions and embodied fantasies
10.30-11.00 What Else Might the Van. Andros Zins-Browne
11.00-11.45 Words of Care: Myths, Realities, Imaginaries. Elke Krasny
11.45 -12.00 FIKA
12.00-13.00 Edge. Chrysa Parkinson
10.30-13.30 (Parallel session) The Unquiet Veil. A Living Person’s Guide to Death Magick in Four Unfinished Songs. Áron Birtalan, co-hosted by Gabriel Widing.
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.30 Dirty streets, bodies and thoughts
14.00-14.20 Strained anatomies – intentional and accidental explorations of holes and some other stories. Juli Apponen
14.20-15.50 Delivering dirty (fostering filthy frictions against the cleaned-up contemporary city). Amy Boulton, Rosa Danenberg, Benjamin Gerdes, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin
14.20-15.50 Bodies, behaviors and getting lost
14.20-15.20 (Parallel session)Get out of here. Disorder
15.30- 15.50 (Parallel session) The ramp, the score and the sociographer. Åsa Bjerndell, Jenny Övergaard, Carole Douillard, Tiril Hasselknippe, Sophia Persson
15.50-16.30 Digestive thinking. Laressa Dickey, Darya Efrat, Sara Kaaman and Alexis Steeves
16.30-17.00 Concluding discussion

WHO ARE “WE”?
The symposium is organized by Stina Nyberg (choreographer and dancer) and Sofia Wiberg (researcher in urban planning). Our interest in collective work is based in a longing for sustainable work relations and the possibility to practice different ways of being in a society. Together, we share an interest in participation, embodied knowledge and embarrassing encounters. The symposium is made in collaboration with Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus.

Information about the sessions and bio:

Eduardo Abrantes
CALL, CONFUSION AND RESPONSE – exploring interspecies agency through sound-based collective embodiment

How can a collective make embodied decisions through non-verbal means such as motion, listening and voice? Can other-than-human agents play a role in this collective decision making at a flat hierarchical level? If not, where do the challenges lie, and what can we learn from them? These are some of the questions driving Call, Confusion and Response – a workshop dedicated to exploring interspecies agency through sound and movement-based collective embodiment.

Eduardo Abrantes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1979) is a sound artist and artistic researcher based in Copenhagen. His practice includes performative strategies, site-specificity and collaborative compositional processes.

Juli Apponen
Strained anatomies – intentional and accidental explorations of holes and some other stories.
Remixing from and adding to the performance lecture “Life is hard and then you die – part 3”, a study in pain, trauma and anatomy. Now maybe a closer look at penetrations and body openings challenging the anatomical, the dirty and painful – but mostly desiring the pleasurable and erotic. All kinds of new and old body parts and fluids will be involved and “graphic content” is the starting point.
Juli Apponen is an artist who seems to work a lot with the body and about the body in the fields of choreography and text – often from an autoethnographic perspective.

Eleanor Bauer
A Dancing-Thinking Practice
For A Thinking Practice, Bauer will facilitate A Dancing-Thinking Practice — a situation of movement and observation in which to study the question of “how dance thinks.” Dancing-thinking has been and remains one of Bauer’s core artistic-practice-based research concerns.
Eleanor Bauer is a dancer, performer, choreographer, writer, teacher, sharer, participant, and lover of dance. She has both a PhD in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts and a doctoral drag character named Dr. Dance. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has also lived and studied in California at Idyllwild Arts Academy, in New York at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and in Brussels at P.A.R.T.S.. Her work ranges in scale, media, and genre, and she has toured internationally to critical acclaim. More info at www.eleanorbauer.info.

Áron Birtalan, co-hosted by Gabriel Widing
The Unquiet Veil – A Living Person’s Guide to Death Magick in Four Unfinished Songs
’The Unquiet Veil ~ or: a Living Person’s Guide to Death Magick in Four Unfinished Songs’ is a low-key role-playing experience / semi-fictional workshop where players are guided through playful and mystical activities in which they develop their own practice of ’everyday death magick’, make a pact with an imaginary entity, and create a spellbook that they take with themselves after the event. The experience brings together pretend-play magick, electronic music, office protocols and playful more-than-human imagination. It also features a synthesizer that casts spells, a band of singing undertakers and lots of metaphysical bureaucracy.

The Unquiet Veil is by artist and musician Áron Birtalan, developed as part of their PhD research project ’Your Bones Hold the Shape of What’s to Come’ at Stockholm University of the Arts. The project explores the embodied aftermath of playful and mystical experiences as an organic, post-mortem artwork that stays under one’s skin and bleeds into the fabric of everyday life as newly formed connections, sensations, myths, superstitions and relationships – ultimately forming more and more intimate bonds with the unknown. This edition of The Unquiet Veil will be co-hosted by theatre-maker and game designer Gabriel Widing.

Amy Boulton, Rosa Danenberg, Benjamin Gerdes, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin
Delivering dirty (fostering filthy frictions against the cleaned-up contemporary city)
We will explore the structural messiness behind the curated ‘perfection’ of the platform city – an urbanism epitomized through the urban archi-scape of Stockholm, with goods and experiences always ready to be delivered on-demand. Can we together generate some attentive frictions to the hidden mechanisms behind these easy, breezy, streamlined encounters; to consider the filth, dirt, and messiness behind the production of idealized platform life? Our workshop facilitates a critical scavenger hunt using contrived scenarios/roles for participants to experimentally inhabit in the streets and nearby public settings. This activity culminates in a group session where the collective sharing of artifacts, writings, sounds/images and other aggregated mess remaps the sanitized, app-mediated street experience.

Amy Boulton, Rosa Danenberg, Benjamin Gerdes, Carmen Lael Hines, Ying-Tzu Lin
(Amsterdam/Vienna/Stockholm/Gothenburg) overlapping backgrounds of promiscuous urbanist/collective agent/public artist/labour activist/art professor/architectural researcher/city planner.

Oda Brekke
How can we think together when our language for social futures feels emptied out?
This session responds to the current commodification of political language that happens in our information-driven society. During the session, we will indulge in textures of emptiness through tasks for performance and writing. I will guide us through a score where we dwell with the concreteness of what is actually here. With focus on the sensory experience of surfaces, we will listen to and follow the material traces in the room, the things in it, and ourselves.

Oda Brekke is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her work explores a material approach to perception in a practice that oscillates between performance and text. She is a co-founder of the artist studio höjden in Östberga.

Xiyao Chen and Kibandu Pello-Esso
Rewilding the Social – a Repository for Situated Knowledge
In the midst of ecological crisis, various concerns have been raised about the planet’s habitability and long-term sustainability. In response to this, these two-part participatory reading sessions aim to reimagine the pluriversal situated knowledge exchange outside the dominant imperialist approach and spatial organisation. The readings stem from a collective project between Kibandu and Xiyao, using the library as an investigative tool, open to the local communities as a space for research and co-creation, re-establishing the fundamental relationship to the land, whether that’s embedded in the ancestral knowledge in land-based practice, healing power of pharmako, or the questioning the urban/rural artistic relationship, agro-ecology and ecosophy. It will re-address the importance of commoning, a platform of knowledge for all related initiatives, open to all.

As a transdisciplinary artist, architect and researcher, Xiyao (b. Guangdong, based in London) operates at the intersection between art and architecture in the expanded field – her research interests and professional experience traverse territories across digital anthropology, activism, moving images and ecology.

Kibandu Pello-Esso, is a Togolese-Swedish designer artist based in Stockholm. His practice is focused on spatial design research – in nature/culture, modern/primitive, private/public dichotomies and in defining and redefining certain established notions of our communal living space.

Laressa Dickey, Darya Efrat, Sara Kaaman and Alexis Steeves
Digestive Thinking
Part performance, part workshop, this session will host a collective body of circulating ideas, movements, impressions. We will digest circulated thinking through the guts; eating (thoughts), listening (ingesting), moving, traversing, voicing, tracing, landing, listening again. We will use our guts as a vehicle for expanding thinking –– and participants will be invited to sort through the shit with us.

Laressa Dickey makes texts, installation, and performance, both alone and with others. Darya Efrat moves with and between spaces, materials, people, and sounds. Sara Kaaman creates publications, collaborations, writings, drawings and education. Alexis Steeves is a dance artist pursuing ongoing research in live solo choreographic practices and performance.

DIS/ORDER
GET OUT OF HERE!
GET OUT OF HERE! is a workshop in the art of getting lost. Habits, societal norms and expectations influence how we move in public space, we often choose the familiar path and walk the straightest way possible. Action cards help the participants move in urban space in a new way, discover the unfamiliar and the uncomfortable, and maybe rediscover the joy of exploring with all of your senses.
DIS/ORDER is an experimental and research based landscape architecture collective. We work in the intersection of urban planning and art, our commissions range from large-scale and long-term strategic urban development projects to temporary artistic installations – always with a focus on people and public spaces.

Anna Enström
Thought, Body, Movement
I will offer a meditation on the relation between thought’s activity in reflection and the sensible experience of bodily movements in the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant, introducing movement in Kant as an aesthetic phenomenon and a philosophical problem rooted in sensibility. Regarding the processes in the (dis)orientation of the “not-knowing”, the presentation plunges into the history of the motion of critical reflective thinking to philosophically contextualize one of its most significant strands within the Western tradition.

Anna Enström is a researcher, writer and a lecturer with a PhD in Aesthetics from Södertörn University, working on Kantian philosophy, critical theory and contemporary aesthetic theory.

Elke Krasny
Words of Care: Myths, Realities, Imaginaries
The global Covid-19 pandemic has (re)named care as essential infrastructure. Those, who perform caring labors, were defined as living infrastructure, as care was, and is being stretched to the limits. The realities of care are defined by austerity, precarization, and exhaustion. The imaginaries of care are filled with ethics, relationality, choice, empathy or kindness. This lecture examines meanings and imaginaries closely associated with the word care. Arguing that there is still a lack of everyday language to articulate labours, experiences, and feelings of, care, and that there is furthermore a profound lack of public articulation of care, this lecture connects the widely held notion that care is invisibilized to this lack of ways of speaking care. Examining words used to speak about care, including empathy, exhaustion, choice, skills, competence, exploitation, persistence, humility, feminization, interruption, or conflict, to name but a few, the interest is on how ‘words of care’ produce socio-environmental effects at the level of material semiosis and political imaginaries.

Elke Krasny is Professor for Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Krasny’s scholarship addresses questions of ecological and social justice at the present historical conjuncture with a focus on caring practices in architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art. Together with Angelika Fitz, she edited Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet together (MIT Press, 2019). Together with Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold, and Vera Hofmann she edited Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating (Sternberg Press, 2021). Her forthcoming book Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care develops a feminist perspective on imaginaries of war and realities of care in pandemic times.

Pedram Nasouri
Life of the party
What does listening mean in a party environment? How has the relationship between DJs and dancers changed during the course of history? What are the links between capitalism and distortion? In a short talk, I will address these questions and outline different ethical and practical frameworks on the politics of collective joy.

Pedram Nasouri is a writer, DJ and teacher who is active in Cyklopen, a self-built and self-managed cultural space in Högdalen, Stockholm.

Chrysa Parkison
Edge
Approaching touch as a curious skill and area of imagination. Participants will be guided in focus, breath exercises, and moving in touch with a partner. The workshop asks how touch (texture, weight, pressure) expand into an imaginarium and what it takes to follow there. Assisted by Alexis Steeves.
Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer living in Stockholm, Sweden and Berkeley, California. She has
worked as a professional dancer in the United States and Northern Europe with dance practitioners, visual artists, film makers and curators for over thirty years. Since 2011, Chrysa has worked as a Professor of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), where she has been directing the New Performative Practices Master education at SKH. For several years Chrysa has been creating and performing embodied essays with hand-drawn images and oral texts. Her research focuses on how dance situates itself in practitioners’ lives and how performers, in turn, author, dismantle and reconstitute worlds. Chrysa’s most recent publications include Weaknesses (Afternoon Editions), and Documenting Experiential Authorship (VIS 0), a series of layered, scattered, and synthetic traces of a performer’s work. In 2021-2022, Chrysa performed Stina Nyberg’s Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Dis/orienting Front with Music for Lectures (Burrows and Fargion).

Pontus Pettersson
Petting the cat
Petting the cat is a method of poly-listening and instant poetry making. A way to be together. Using already existing texts as material for worldbinding and world making. The method operates on similar terms as concrete poetry but engages further performative elements to create poems. The performance of this becomes in itself an intimate meeting, a portrait of the moment and the people present, as well as invoking the books used, bring your favorite book!
Pontus Petersson is a Swedish artist and choreographer based in Stockholm. His work goes from installation work, poetry, and fountains, to object making, cat practicing, playing the accordion and making festivals to dancing.

Tuija Roberntz
Tuija Roberntz will follow the symposium as a participatory researcher, keeping her mind on the experience of a symposium and then write about it.
Tuija is a student at BA level in anthropology and philosophy. In her bachelor degree she focuses on choreography, dance, the creation of place and resonance.

Ellen Söderhult & Tove Salmgren
Food dance for the back
In the symposium Ellen and Tove will share a participatory score which is a fantasy seed for a future performance for children using storytelling, imagination and touch. The score is inspired by the ”massage-story”, commonly practiced in preschools where children play with simple scores to give and receive touch on their back, as a way to enhance listening and attention through touch. In the symposium participants will be invited to do a simple score in pairs, an invitation to ”cook” (sketch, draw, shape with the hands) a dish on the other person’s back, as a way to share, feel and listen to a dance with everything but the eyes.
Ellen Söderhult and Tove Salmgren live in Stockholm and work with dance and choreography, taking on the roles as they come, sometimes as educators, dancers, choreographers, curators, musicians, or other. They have known each other for many years but this is their first artistic collaboration as dance makers.

Cara Tolmie
Gummy DJ
Cara will be available over the course of the symposium to feel out the times when we might need some music – perhaps to calm the nerves, to re-stoke the energy levels, as a reflection of themes explored in the sessions or merely to lubricate and ease the social atmosphere. She likes to think of herself as being something between a resident DJ, an atmospheric glue, and a sonic service for A Thinking Practice. Throughout the symposium she will have a fixed station with a record player and a selection of vinyl records from her own collection. She also encourages you to bring your own records along if there is anything you would like to play.

Cara spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her practice at large centers itself upon the voice, the body and the complex ties between the two. All at once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two codependent entities able to confirm as well as contradict one another. Within this there is keen attention paid to the role of listening, both as a practice witnessed by the onlooker and a relationship between the performer and audience member.

Ana Vujanovic
Transindividuality and mnemotechnics
To give a brief account on the notion ‘the transidividual’ I will touch upon the process of ontogenesis (the development of the individual) and the relationship between the individual and the collective. In our modern Western society, which is highly individualistic, the individual is commonly seen as a primordial category, while the collective is an entity in which formed individuals enter. However, the ontogenesis observed only starting from a formed individual misses the very process of individuation, which has a collective background and dimension, embedded in each individual.

Starting with this revisited ontology, Bernard Stiegler focuses on ’technical objects’ as transindividual creations, which contain human memory and thereby transmit general intellect, while fusing the individual and the collective. Here he proffers the thesis on a prosthetic character of human memory, in a long history of imaging, storytelling, writing and digitalization, all seen as mnemotechnics. Inheritance of mnemotechnical devices is thus as important for transindividuation as the creation of tools is. Moreover, these two processes are intertwined, since when I inherit a tool, I inherit through its mode of use the gestures, skills, experiences, and motor behaviors that lead to the production of the tool. To reverse the explosion of individualism and reclaim the agency over our collective past and future, we therefore have to look for a ‘we’ engraved on our tools, from cars and fridges to arts and spaceships.

Vujanovic holds Ph.D. in Theatre Studies. She has lectured at various universities and educational programs throughout Europe, was a visiting professor at the Performance Studies Dpt. of the University Hamburg, and occasionally teaches at HZT Berlin. Since 2016 she is a team member and mentor of fourth year students at SNDO. She was a member of the editorial collective of TkH [Walking Theory], a Belgrade-based theoretical-artistic platform, and editor-in-chief of the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory (2001-2017). She participates in art works in the fields of performance, theatre, dance, and video/film, as a dramaturge and co-author, with artists such as Marta Popivoda, Christine de Smedt and Eszter Salamon.

Andros Zins-Browne
What Else Might the Van
Andros will host an embodied discussion about violence in dance. With a seemingly unending prevalence of harm done by bodies on other bodies, how can we create spaces which engage with practices of violence without flattening them into representations, or causing harm ourselves? What are the politics of such an engagement?

Andros Zins-Browne is a multi-disciplinary artist and choreographer living and working in New York City. His work deals with the interrelation of the fiction of bodies, politics, and physical materials where the borders between each dissolve and begin to take on each other’s properties.

Jenny Övergaard, Åsa Bjerndell, Sophia Persson, Tiril Hasselknippe, Carole Douillard
The ramp, the score and the sociographer
How can we collaboratively experiment with different situations and methodologies, in which subjective relations can be created, experimented with and made public, to plant seeds that suggest alternative futures in ongoing urban planning processes? We invite you to have an exchange with us about perspectives, positions, sensitivity, assumptions, bodyness, and presence during our ongoing development of a prototype for reflection about public space.

Sophia Persson is a cultural producer based in Malmö, Carole Douliard is a performance artist working from Nantes, France, Åsa Bjerndell is an architect and urban planner in Malmö, Tiril Hasselknippe is a sculptor based in Stavanger, Norway, and Jenny Övergaard is an architect based in Stockholm. The research collaboration presented began as part of the Of Public Interest Lab from KKH 2021-22. Through artistic interpretations of demography, statistics, human interaction, sensitivity, gestures and interpretability, the collaboration seeks to critically explore the way in which future cities will be accessible to different bodies, behaviors and economies.