This practice- and process-based seminar focusses on the artistic relations between body, image, and space. Co-led by interactive performance artist-researcher Marie-Claude Poulin and video artist and filmmaker Flora Watzal, it encourages students to investigate how movement and perception transform space, and how digital formats influence the experience of embodiment. The seminar builds on a lightweight modular setup combining cameras, projections, and simple software tools as a means to support performative experiments. Rather than foregrounding technology, the KIP (Kit for Interactive Performance) is used as an intuitive partner in practical research, responsive to movement impulses and improvised interactions with the site. Participants work with light, shadow, projection, and gesture in direct dialogue with the environment. Architectural elements, walls, textures, and pathways act as dramaturgical partners that shape presence and attention. Real-time feedback processes are used to expand and explore the creative potential of movement and interaction.
The aim is a transdisciplinary search for hybrid spaces in which material and immaterial layers intersect, and body, media, and place act, reflect, and mutually redefine each other.
Important: Places are limited and sustained in-person work throughout the seminar is required.
The course is given in English.
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The courses Embodied Spaces and Digital Formats 2 form a combined seminar. Participation in the seminar requires separate registration for both courses.
More info at Base Angewandte
“Digitale Formate 2” https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2026W/S03436/