Workshop
Workshop with HAUPTAKTION: ‘ARTISTIC RESEARCH’

Thu, 27.09.2018
10:00 AM - 13:00 The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

In this workshop, participants will work with the performers and creators of HAUPTAKTION to explore the dimensions of doing embodied research about the physical and symbolic histories of the body. Participants will conduct a small artistic-research in the field of „fitness“ and „exercise“. We will read theoretical texts and cultural histories as well as exercise (!) and use auto-ethnographic methodologies in order to produce knowledge on wider social and political implications and functions of „fitness“ and „exercise“. Together, we will try to find ways of telling histories of the body through knowledge presentations that critique the traditional sidelining of the body in knowledge production.
HAUPTAKTION is an association for artistic research formed around the cultural anthropologist Julian Warner and the theatre maker Oliver Zahn. HAUPTAKTION studies theatrical practices using ethnography, archive-based-research and embodiment.
Open to festival presenters and research students from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.