On being body with Lena Heubusch and Avril Stormy Unger

Lena Heubusch, our current bangaloREsident@Walkin Studios is offering On being body, a workshop along with Avril Stormy Unger.

Starting from a concept of being body beyond the binary and beyond the Cartesian thought of body and mind being two separate systems, a dialogue will be created in which the body is our conductor. The activities will develop organically and intuitively from the indvidual's perception of being body to a sensing of the collective body.

“The other stands within a space that I will never occupy. Through this, he or she eludes my relation to spatiality. What was familiar to me in the perception of space is disconcerted by the presence of the other. Unless I include this other within my world, which annuls them as other. Moreover, the other moves in space, and this prevents me from assigning to him, or her, a place where they would in some way be at my disposal.”
- Luce Irigaray

The workshop will take place on November 28 and 29, 2022 in three sessions:
10 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. 
tea break
12 noon - 2 p.m.
lunch break
3 - 4.30 p.m.

The aim of the workshop is to tap into the knowledge naturally stored in our bodies. To participate, no prior knowledge of body movement is needed. To apply send one or two sentences explaining your motivation to Lena, via +91 82961 90062 or studio@lenaheubusch.com.

© Pearlie Frisch

Lena Heubusch studied in Spain, Germany, and the UK and holds an MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London as well as master degrees in graphic and web design. She investigates social environments through collaborative settings - online, offline and everywhere in between - within the format of workshops and talks, most recently at The Graduate Center at City University of New York.

Her work addresses the exploration of collective dynamics that investigate quantum interconnections between the material, the intuitive and the sensitive. Lena explores the hybridisation between performance, sculpture, video and sound as means to question the traditional category of image. She performed for Otobong Nkanga’s ‘Carved to Flow’ during Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany.

© Avril Unger

Avril Stormy Unger is an interdisciplinary artist whose work across mediums is informed by the nuances of performance. Her practice spans durational performance, live art, movement art, video art, interventions and installations. Her artistic practice is impulsive, experimental and unbound by discipline. The recurring themes explored in her work include gender and sexuality, abuse and trauma, Christianity, urban living and mental health.