Studio Visits – Joe Dumit & Miriam Simun
More Than Human Encountering, 21 September 2021.
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin.
In September 2021, Studio Olafur Eliasson welcomed Joe Dumit and
Miriam Simun to lead an exploratory embodiment workshop, which
they called ‘more-than-human encountering’. Joe Dumit is an
anthropologist of science and technology and a specialist in contact
improvisation, and Miriam Simun is a multimedia artist working with
a focus on the sensorial, particularly taste, smell, and most recently
touch.
They guided studio members in a quiet exercise of encountering
the more-than-human within our own bodies. Through observation
of our breaths and subtle body movements, the exercise drew
attention to the microbes that co-mingle in every inhalation, and to the
micro-movements of our muscles and cells – whether a tensing little
toe or the tiny balancing give-and-take required to stand still – that
make up ‘the coherence of our self’.
Video by Yanina Isla.
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Studio Visits – Alexander Hahne & KiKi
Gender Diversity and The Curious Body, 12 October 2022.
Studio Olafur Eliasson.
Alexander Hahne (he/him) is a specialist in gender-reflective pedagogy
and gender and sexual diversity. He is particularly interested in the inner
attitude of expecting nothing and knowing nothing, fake dance and
movement therapy, sincerity and integrity, and the Japanese dance
performance method of Butoh. KiKi (she/her) is a somatic practitioner,
exploring healing/meditative somatic practices, breath work, sound
healing, sense communication, body and nature integration, and
improvisation as a tool for authentic self-expression.
The movement workshop that Alexander and KiKi organised at Studio
Olafur Eliasson focused on the complexity of gender identity and
questions around non-neutrality in sharing space.
Video by Yanina Isla.
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