Sabina Holzer

expanded choreography; performance; writing; somatic & body based practices; feminism; anthropocene; ecologies; more-than-human; new materialism; science fiction; poetry;
Austria
research interests: anthropocene, ecologies, more-than-human, intersectional feminism, materiality, Body based art, science fiction, poetry, community, dance
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Sabina Holzer is a dancer, choreographer, writer and movement facilitator based in somatic body work and Yoga. She works in the field of expanded choreography and her performances, interventions and texts explore the ecologies of human and more-than-human bodies with particular attention to movement. She engages in practices of community, philosophy, ecology, materiality, science fiction & poetry. Since many years she is connected to a field of international artists and theorists like Jeroen Peeters, Alix Eynaudi, Elisabeth Schäfer, Katrin Hornek, Esther Figueroa, Kilian Jörg, Lito Walkey and other fabulous fellows. With them and together with artist Jack Hauser she develops collaborative artistic research settings, performances and interventions in public spaces, galleries, museums & theaters, such as Lentos Museum für moderne Kunst, Essl Museum, Hidden Museum, dOCUMETA (13), ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, DieAngewandte. Her engagement in choreography relates to resource-orientation with a critical feminist approach to the Anthropocene. In the last years she developed the format of a „choreographic assemblage“, where human and more-than-human agencies co-exist and perfrom together. A version of it is „which dances - or how to imagine a future beyond extraction“ at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna in the frame of the Klima Biennale. 2023 she co-edited with Elisabeth Schäfer the book „which dances - which writes, Aluminium Assemblages“, a poetic and philosophical reflection of the global mine. She was key collaborator in the work testing ground by Katrin Hornek, which is currently at the Secession Vienna. In 2024 „May I dream a body with you“ is published by Varamo Press Belgien. She is core-researcher of the transdisciplinary peek project „On the significance of the heart (2024 - 2027) lead by Arno Böhler (A) and her artist practice evolves since 2022 especiall around water-bodies and nature-cultures. www.cattravelsnotalone.at

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  • WITHING (last edited: 2024) author(s): Emma Cocker, Sabina Holzer, Laressa Dickey, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Litó Walkey This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    withing Delphine Chapuis Schmitz --- Emma Cocker --- Laressa Dickey --- Sabina Holzer --- Ines Marita Schärer --- Litó Walkey This is an emergent ‘thematic node’ for exploring the relation of languaging and bodying: How does languaging affect bodying? How does bodying affect languaging? How does movement inform wording? How does wording inform moving? How can we explore ways for languaging/bodying with, through and from sensing and somatic practices? How to find wording and worlding for the polyphonies of somatic experiences? scores - notations - situations – conditions Initiated through the mutual witnessing of shared resonances and affinities during Convocation II, we conceived this ‘node’ as an emergent framework for experimenting together, for sharing embodied practising, for testing possibilities for a bodily becoming of language/words. Since November 2023, we have been meeting online to explore how we might create shared conditions and situations for practising body/languaging, both through being-with (online) and being-apart (offline). Currently, our shared exploration unfolds through the rhythm of rotation, an evolving constellation of ‘pairings’ and ‘proposals’ based on a bi-monthly cycle. For each bi-monthly iteration, a pairing (two of us working together) devises a score/proposal/invitation/focus which we then all collectively test, enact, activate, reconnecting together after a period of practice (1 month) for sharing materials / findings / discoveries / reflections from the shared research process. Being in doing. Being in practice together. Body/Language. Between the two, activating the between. Moving between different modalities, shifting from one to the other. Tilting towards. Along-siding.
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