Bodily Intelligence: Decentralizing the Performance of “Intelligence”

In performance practice, diverse kinds of bodily intelligence and subjectivity are explored, reimagined, and transformed. The transdisciplinary four-part workshop series Bodily Intelligence: Decentralizing the Performance of “Intelligence” brings together embodied practice with critical writing to investigate how bodily experience shapes theoretical reflection. Rather than doing theory through the appropriation of established concepts, the repetition of inherited movement forms, or critique based on hegemonic values that underpin the marginalization of underrepresented social groups, the workshops invite participants to engage with individually and collectively shaped conscious and unconscious processes. Through this exploration, we consider how bodies shape their minds, and how minds, in turn, shape bodies. While techno-capitalist narratives increasingly speculate about artificial intelligence becoming fully conscious, the series recenters the aesthetics of embodied knowledge to envision how we want to live with other living beings and AI systems, and how these relations could facilitate the conditions for a more democratic and socially inclusive future.

Organized by the FWF project The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics (led by Lisa Moravec, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). The workshop series is a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Tanzquartier Wien.

Due to limited spaces, we ask people who want to participate in one or more workshops to send a short email with 2 to 3 sentences to l.moravec@akbild.ac.at, briefly outlining their motivations.

You can apply for the following workshops:

• 20.04. – 21.04. Diana Damian Martin Nonconforming Criticisms
  
• 08.05. – 10.05. Jurij Konjar Improvisation for Contacters
  
• 27.05. Adam Nocek & Stacey Moran Technologies of Abstract Experience
  
• 02.06. Veza Fernández Soma poetic strategies