In the first panel "Moving Bodies in Shifting Places", on Monday, Oct. 24, at 1 pm, Prof. Lisa Blackman, Department of Media Communication and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London (online), will talk about „How we can approach the concept of presence in a highly mediated landscape." Valentijn Byvanck, director Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, presents the "Training the Senses" program followed by an interactive contribution by artist David Helbich. Spatial practitioner Mmakhotso Lamola and artist Ute Heim present their recent work as part of the panel theme.
On Tuesday in Panel 2 "Distance when meeting in person", sociologist Angelika Schwarz approaches the cultural history of distance. Caroline Adam, TUM Chair of Ergonomics, presents the "Digitalization Push in the World of Work" from the perspective of labor research, and Prof. Melanie Krüger, tenure-track professor of "Embodiment in Sport and Cognitive Fitness" at Leibniz Universität Hannover, analyses motor decision-making and interpersonal movement coordination.
In Panel 3, "Virtual spaces of interaction, hope", Dr. Hiloko Kato and Alexandra Zoller will present their contrasting research on conversations during the Corona Crisis and on real interaction as made possible in virtual spaces using the latest VR technology. Artist Louise Walleneit presents three versions of her video work "cloudmeeting," in which a "touch-sensitive space can be experienced like an upside-down WWW". Media scholar Daniel Stoecker shares his knowledge of the "spatiality of sensor-based human-computer relations" and challenges "what hopes and narratives accompany this sensory penetration of space."
Panel 4 "Knowledge of body and space": Prof. Gabi Schillig will present "Spatial concepts that result in multisensory, processual and dialogic performative structures and communication spaces" . Florian Ecker, visual artist, will explain "Marble Blocks with Rubbed Gloss" from the work series "Block c" in the Königsaal of the Chair of Fine Arts and the dramaturge and curator Paula Kohlmann will provide insight into her poetic research on the "relationship between body knowledge and performative language".
"New patterns of movement" will be negotiated in Panel 5. Here, the possibilities of sensual presence are interrogated by Prof. Gabriele Klein, Professor of Sociology of Movement, Sport and Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg (UHH). Created during the Corona pandemic, curator Julia Katharina Thiemann presents the project "Dance your Home", in which choreographic-artistic movement sequences "can be performed in different ways by anyone interested at home or at a place of their choice". The Berlin based artist Irina Gheorghe also deals with movement in her work "Scores for first contact" as part of a performance.
The symposium is accompanied by an exhibition, in the Königsaal of the Chair of Fine Arts, on artistic approaches to the human body in space, documentation of physical exercises and challenges (Haase/Hochstatter and Paranose Productions, Antonio Della Guardia, Ute Heim), as well as instructions (Irina Gheorghe). A live project by Gabi Schillig will be performed by Yui Kawaguchi and Florian Lechner will explore virtual space.
Timetable & complete program as PDF
The symposium will be accessible via zoom.
Zoom registration: elke.dreier@tum.de
The symposium is organized by Elke Dreier, visual artist and research assistant, with the Chair of Visual Arts, Prof. Tina Haase, at the Department of Architecture of the TUM School of Engineering and Design. With the kind support of the Dr. Marschall Stiftung.
Elke Dreier is a visual artist and research assistant at the Chair of Visual Arts, Prof. Tina Haase. In her artistic work, Elke Dreier investigates the role of the human body in an increasingly digitally interacting world.
Event Location
Chair of Visual Arts, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Entrance VI | Luisen- / Ecke Gabelsbergerstraße | 3rd floor | Room 3340 | Königsaal