Performance Therapy
Performance Therapy is a practice that questions the idea of therapy and at the same time affirms, re-invents and practices therapy as performance and performance as therapy. Throughout the process, the question re-appears if a particular activity is therapeutic for the artist/practitioner or for the audience (visitor), or both, or none. This hybrid and partly contradictory process is itself a performative research. We will work partly in the studio, partly field-research, partly as a party. A great emphasis will be placed on deprofessionalisation.
No previous experience with performance or therapy necessary. Wear whatever feels good, not necessarily comfortable.
Commitment for at least one week would be recommended, however, drop-ins and drop-outs are allowed.
born in Tallinn in 1981, is a choreographer and performer whose work (performances, presentations, texts, workshops, mood shifts) challenges fixed definitions of choreography and performance. She graduated from ArtEz, Arnhem, in dance and choreography and obtained an MA in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Since 2003 she is based in Vienna and has presented her work in a variety of forms at venues including Mindaugas Triennial, Contemporary Art Center (Vilnius), ImPulsTanz Vienna, de Appel (Amsterdam), Tallinn Art Hall, deSingel (Antwerp), a.o. She has created performances and performative conditions such as Bad Mood, Look Look (with Anne Juren), Once Upon, Ride the Wave Dude (with Mårten Spångberg), Animal Jokes (for Animals) and Performances for Pets (both with Alex Bailey).
€ 36/*15 per day
First week: Studio work
Second week: field research (at the artists place, in a bar, club, park etc.)