Workshop BODY AS AN ARTISTIC MEDIUM: Working With(In) Limits & Expanding Possibilities by Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu

Description

The workshop focuses on limits as a starting point for performance practice. Limits—whether physical, emotional, social, or political—are usually seen as constraints, but they can also open new ways of being in the world and in the performance art context: working with the body. Through somatic exercises, journaling, and performative scores engaging with (dis)comfort, restriction, repetition, and support, participants will explore how thresholds can generate presence, transformation, and new forms of relation. The sessions combine practical exercises, individual explorations, and group discussions to consider how the body negotiates boundaries and how limitation itself can become a method in performance art.

Accessibility note:
After the presentation, the workshop will take place in silence. Short instructions will be given in English, using simple language. Participants are welcome to take a break or step out at any time. There will be water and warm herbal tea in the space. Please bring a pen and a notebook/papers for journaling. Come with comfortable clothes and open hearts <3

The workshop is open to anyone regardless of previous movement experiences. Artists, working with the body or not, can integrate the instructions into their ongoing research.