The Imagining Body
How does imagination shape us and the things we create? Can imagination belong to anyone at all? Is imagination limited to images? How does imagination influence us as bodies? How can imagination become a body? How does the body imagine?
In this course we will look at how these questions are explored in science fiction, media studies, religion and magical practices: From visionary medieval mystics to ritualistic 20th century cinema and queer techno to eliminate the Anthropocene. We will bring their ways of working into the studio to see how they can shape artistic practice and thought. Special attention is given to how “technologies of imagination” influence bodily experience in both creator and audience.
This course is open to participants from all artistic disciplines and interests. We encourage you to be open to making, discussing and experiencing art in ways that may seem unusual at first.
Our approach is hands-on and theoretical at once. We believe that on-the-floor engagement and critical thought do not exclude each other, but unfold from one another.
Photo: Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, YGRG14X: reading with the single hand, 2018. Video still. Courtesy of the Artists.
Information
Study period: 13 November 2023
Education scope: 7,5 credits
Teaching language: English
Study location: Stockholm
Study pace: 100 %
Subject area: Dance
Application period: 15 March–17 April 2023
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