BINATIONAL ARTISTIC PhD-PROGRAM

The research of this artistic doctorate aims to understand the extent to which artistic processes can make an active contribution to reflecting on and reshaping the norms and conditioning of experiences. The perceptibility of the social and cultural constructedness of space and body is to be sharpened through artistic interventions and new forms of experiences promoted. This is investigated by means of artistic interventions that enable the experience of space and the lived body in multiple ways. 

This exploration focuses on the extent to which artistic interventions shaped by movement and related to space and the body can disrupt habitual patterns of experience and foster sustainable new forms of spatial and bodily experiences. The diversity of human experiences not only holds the potential for new artistic and scientific insights, but above all the opportunity for a more inclusive, open-minded and needs-oriented society. 

Thereby the potentials and possibilities of artistic interventions regarding a differentiated experience of space and body are examined. The research goes beyond a sociological examination of the social constructions of and social influence on space and the body by asking about the possibility of pluralizing experiences in society through space- and body-related interventions. The field of research is anchored in a contemporary artistic practice that seeks to challenge the notions of body and corporeality.

The research project is framed by questions that link the potential of intervening artistic practice with forms of movement-led spatial and bodily experiences. Thereby movement is perceived as an “intersection” of space and body and visualizes materializations of social norms and social conditions. The field of artistic interventions on the other hand is used as a way to question established forms of representation.

Supervised at HfK Bremen by Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick and at SFU Vancouver by Prof. Sabine Bitter.