WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER by Charlotta Ruth, Jasmin Schaitl

WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER is conceptualized and conducted collaboratively by Charlotta Ruth (SE/AT) and Jasmin Schaitl (AT). The starting point are two artistic practices based on methods of mindfulness and game/play; Performances for the Mind and Choreographic Clues. These two individual perspectives on participation emerge from the project leaders’ ongoing artistic research and merge in their common artistic curiosity in the facilitator role and facilitating the creation of immaterial material. Accompanied by neuroscientist and performer Imani Rameses (US/AT) the research asks: How does immaterial material perform within participatory situations? What role does participatory setting play and how does participation differ if situations are communicated as a workshop, a treatment, a practice or a performance? How can neuroscience support how immaterial and participatory art practices are developed and described? What relation exists beyond involvement and how can a participant become the situation rather than being part of a situation? What has to occur in the mind and body for this to happen? Through practice and dialogue conducted with experts in the fields of contemplative sciences, sound art, choreography, game art and somatics, the research explores how input from participants (e.g. memory, thought, emotion) can be placed at the centre of a flexible yet framed performance situation. WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER was realised in collaboration with the Angewandte Performance Laboratory 2021-2022. In the course of the project, a lecture was given at the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education, and a public series was realised at Kunsthalle, Wien & Angewandte Performance Lab. Collaborating expert practitioners and dialogue partners are: Philipp Ehmann (AT), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Mariella Greil (AT), Dennis Johnson (US/AT), Anne Juren (FR/AT), Krõõt Juurak (EE/AT), Imani Rameses (US/AT), Christian Schröder (AT), Lucie Strecker (DE/AT).

NOTE: This page is in progress, we are working on extending the drawing material created by Verena Frauenlob. These drawings are reflecting

(DIS)COMFORT ZONES - AND DO WE WANT TO GET THERE? Facilitates by Krõõt Juurak & Jasmin Schaitl 22/10 2022

Participatory art is difficult to document as the presence of a camera risks interrupting the sense making at play. Inside WITHDRAWING THE PERFORMER we hence researched alternatives of how to capture experience when documenting the public sessions. Each session of the 4 Saturday Public Series included an interview and talk with the facilitators as well as a collaborative reflection together with the participants using a playful tool for collaborative writing and drawing. The project further invited transdisciplinary artist Verena Frauenlob to be a participant of the serises and in a second step process the reflection material of the participants into a drawing-format. In this drawing process Frauenlob used her own (post) experience as a participant to engage with the cadavre exquis (reflective material) of the other participants into large scale drawings (A2).

PARTICIPATORY SENSE-MAKING

METHODOLOGIES & FORMATS

PUBLIC SERIES

TEACHING

CONTACT

(DIS)COMFORT ZONES - AND DO WE WANT TO GET THERE?

Volume of emotion/ time, (Dis)comfort, Dialogue, Memory, Zone

Who we are does (not) change who we want to be.

Exploring, following and (un)working directions in our bodies and memories.

Moving from comfortable to less comfortable and back.

Drawings by Verena Frauenlob, documenting the participatory situation facilitated by Krõõt Juurak & Jasmin Schaitl 2022.

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