Worlding Podcast

Ep #4.2 The Nuances between Words and Information | Worlding Podcast

Tzeshi Lei is a Berlin-based dance artist, born and raised in Taiwan, who in this episode shares her research into the complexity of language. Drawing on her personal experience of living and working between Mandarin - a dialect of Chinese, German and English, Tzeshi explores the dimensionality of language which she see’s as a ‘hyperobject’ that it is containing us, while at the same time we are containing the language.

In dialogue with her movement practice which is rooted in Qigong, Tai Chi and Butoh dance, Tzeshi has come to describe language as ‘embodied anatomy’, approaching language as a series of entangled layers, similar to the layers of the body - such as facia, muscles and bones. Tzeshi asks how we can expand the nuances of spaces in between words and information, and therefore expand the many means by which we articulate worlds.

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Ep #4.3 Trans-forming Ways of Being | Worlding Podcast

Tsuki is a dancer and choreographer originally from Australia and now based in Berlin. She is working from a queer feminine perspective and in this episode we dive into her research around deconstructing conditioned ways of being and facilitating spaces of more-than human exchange. 

Recorded from a hotel room in Ipatinga (Brazil), ​​Tsuki unravels her personal story of feeling alien in her body and how she changed her name and identity to come closer to her truth. This transition was made in relation to the moon cycle, with ’Tsuki’ in Japanese meaning ‘moon’.

Tsuki now leads Full Moon Performance Rituals in Berlin and is focused on enabling spaces where the art, the community, and the survival can co-exist. 

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Ep #5.1 Lighting Imaginary Spaces | Worlding Podcast

“I invite you for an imaginary night walk in my neighbourhood. We could meet in front of the supermarket, here on my corner, next to the flickering street lamp. I would suggest around 11:00 PM, in the middle of the week - Wednesday. So dress warm and I bring some tea and blankets for us. I also kindly ask you to be silent and aware of your surroundings during the walk.”

Sandra Blatterer is a Berlin based visual artist and lighting designer. In this episode we explore her research into ‘Imaginary Spaces’ created especially in the context of installations and staged performances, but not only. Together we discuss strategies to become more sensitised to the agency of light, asking how it choreographs us?

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Ep #5.2 Gradual shifts in Time | Worlding Podcast

Milla Koistinen creates dance works that often evoke a feeling of spaciousness and calm in the spectator. She was born and raised in a small cabin in the Finnish forest where in winter the main sources of light outside were the moon, stars and Northern Lights and in summer there was so much light that it never got dark. What she noticed was a slow transformation that she applies to her choreographic works, where things shift gradually over time.

In this episode we explore her recent collaborative work "Terrain” - an immersive installation for one visitor at a time and "On a Clear Day" - a dance solo inspired by the artworks of Canadian born painter Agnes Martin. We focus especially on rhythm and understanding how certain worlds can linger inside of us even after we have physically moved on. 

To end, Milla guides listeners through a short movement journey inviting us to center our attention on breathing, on listening, on moving and then simply on standing still. 

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“On a Clear Day / SCHRUMPF!” > https://www.loudsoft.de/archiv-1/schrumpf-2020-2021/schrumpf-koistinen-on-a-clear-day/

Ep #5.3 Enabling Dialogue | Worlding Podcast

Synne Burnett is a dramaturg and writer working closely with last episode's guest dancer/choreographer Milla Koistinen. In this episode Synne shares her practice of creating spaces where ideas can co-exist, where we can be with our dilemmas and explore things that may at times be both comfortable and uncomfortable. We then discuss how different artists are working with the environment, exploring our relationship to our surroundings through the lens of dramaturgy.

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Ep #6.1 Colliding Timescales | Worlding Podcast

While observing the extension of Berlin’s A100 City Highway that is being tunneled close to her home in Berlin-Neukölln, artist and writer Catherine Rose Evans collected rocks at the site which were glacial erratics deposited there during the ice age. In this episode Catherine shares her interest in geologic time and where this intersects with our own human timescales as found in our bodies, their materiality and our lived histories. Often we think of rocks as stationary, heavy things but this is only due to our perception of time. If one looks at a scale much larger than a human lifespan we can begin to understand that rocks have liquid histories and will one day return to a liquid form.

By researching and experimenting with the effects that different forces - light, weight, balance - have on materials Catherine can gain insight into how these forces likewise apply to us. How human bodies are also materials that are cycling, no different from rocks. 

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Ep #6.2 Sleep as an agent in the constitutions of worlds | Worlding Podcast

During a recent artist residency on the island of Örö in the Finnish Archipelago writer, artist and researcher Ally Bisshop was overcome by a wash of fatigue. Sensing a pull between the two opposing forces of sleep and desire, she asked how exhaustion could help her to read this ecology with more curiosity, generosity and sensitivity.

Ally felt a tension between ambition and surrendering to her lethargy. She found it was useful to draw on the mythopoeia figures of Eros (desire) and Hypnos (sleep and death) as a device for getting out of the habits of thinking landscape or non human bodies mechanistically and discovered that by thinking through these forgotten figures she could begin to think and move otherwise.  

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Info on 'Moving across Thresholds' at: http://www.movingacrossthresholds.com/

 

 

Ep #6.3 Rooting in the Arboreal | Worlding Podcast

Environmental activist, artist and mindfulness practitioner Lucy Powell shares her process of creating 'Becoming Arboreal', a guided walk through Berlin’s Tiergarten that explores ideas and practices that enable us to dwell more easily in uncertainty, such as spending time with the park’s ancient trees which are rooted to the spot and not able to run away - trees that are literally staying with the trouble. ‘Becoming Arboreal’ draws on mindfulness, the Buddhist history of practicing meditation with and around trees as well as the Thai forest tradition. In times when the world feels increasingly unstable, Lucy looks to trees as companion thinkers asking ‘how to be in the world as it is now?’

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Ep #7.1 It takes a village to be with grief | Worlding Podcast

After her sister got diagnosed with an autoimmune illness and unexpectedly died within half a year Siegmar Zacharias, a Berlin-based performance artist and researcher, embarked on a life’s work to create collective and public places for grieving. In this episode, Siegmar shares her research into collective processes of death and dying as well as expanded notions of grief that arise due to climate change and the current mass sixth-extinction.

Drawing on her performance practice and American neuroscientist Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, Siegmar aims to create spaces where the inter-linking of nervous systems can become sensible and where we can build joyful futures that incorporate the necessary capacity to grieve together.

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Ep #7.2 Facilitating radical spaces for and by sickos | Worlding Podcast

Zinzi Buchanan is a non-binary artist who in this episode shares their lived experience of being chronically ill and how that continues to shape their facilitation practice of enabling spaces that are by and for people who are sick, or that care for the sick. The focus is on Zinzi’s performance project ‘sick bed series’, an invitation to voice, dream and feel through a program of performances and talks. Zinzi tenderly unravels their search for aliveness in a world that makes us sick. 

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