The Center for Contemporary Dance hosts, conceives and organizes this year's annual conference of the Society for Dance Research - in cooperation with the German Dance Archive Cologne, and with the collaboration of the Sociology of Movement and Sport at the University of Marburg and the Department of Animation and Time-Based Practices at the École de Recherche Graphique Brussels.
Ecologies on the Move! With its dual focus on digitalities and ecologies, the 2023 annual symposium of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (gtf) inquires into the influence and efficacies of the often hybrid media-centered constellations that emerge around dance and dancing. AI in the performative arts, digital cultures of mediation, or an understanding of dance as a data (structure) in archiving make us ask: What practices, discourses, and aesthetics have emerged socially, technically, artistically with and since digitization - and in the aftermath of the pandemic - and how can we research and move with them? What collaborative forms of working together are opened up by digital media? And how can dance(s) be thought of as an ecological structure, especially under these auspices?
The conference addresses such questions on- and offline in lectures, workshops and motion labs. Scrolling, speculating, discussing and always in motion, we want to take a look at historical antecedents in the confrontation between dance and technology as well as reflect on changing settings and ways of working and collective knowledge production. And ask how - starting from an understanding of dance as embedded in socio-ecological structures - media dispositives of staging, (colonial) power structures and hierarchies can be critically reflected in the digital context.
The theoretical contributions of renowned international speakers deal with choreographies and dramaturgies of the digital, practices of archiving, narratives (out of) the crisis, technologies of mediation or the productivity of the figure of thought of 'ecologies' for (dance) theory and practice. The physical-experimental formats wander 'hands on' through virtual landscapes, for example, or bring bodies and avatars into conversation with each other.
The symposium thus sees itself as a meeting place for interdisciplinary scientific and artistic expertise and, with the participation of numerous cooperation partners and "NFDI4Culture", explicitly invites the sharing of knowledge and networks.
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4th Choreography Conference: "Choreography and Institution" at the Center for Contemporary Dance, HfMT on the topic: Choreography and Institution, in cooperation with Friederike Lampert, funded by Tanzpan Germany.