The body is created in the production process.

Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari: Anti-Ödipus, Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie, Frankfurt am Main 1977.

Movementmachines.org experiments with specific links between dance practices and today’s machines/media, but at the same time also calls up earlier constellations of mediality: Written formations of movement, visualisations of what is said, embodiments of symbolic arrangements of signs, mechanics of movement simulations, the air in movement, the sound of a breath. By means of the stimuli of old and new media on a digital surface, the project undermines the self-evident nature of contemporary media research, „exclusively researching contemporary or modern media“ (Kittler 2021), but also explicitly deals with digital gamification, the use of playful means and dynamics in contemporary dance practice.

movementmachines.org – Stimuli and mobilizations by Rose Breuss (2024)

PROJECTS

Amalgamation of Movements: Gertrud Bodenwieser by Kai Chun Chuang and Maria Shurkhal

Petites traces of movements: Isolde Klietmann by Marcela López Morales

The Art of Motion: Olga Szentpál by Boglárka Heim and Eszter Petrány 

Gearing into Madness: Andrei Jerschik by Damián Cortés Alberti 

Nijinsky´s Movement Machines – by Claudia Jeschke, Constantin Georgescu and Rainer Krenstetter 

In five micro-studies, this team explores largely unknown (archive) material by/about Vaslav Nijinsky, Gertrud Bodenwieser, Olga Szentpál, Andrei Jerschik and Isolde Klietmann. The core idea of the studies is the use of (archive) material as movement machines – as a productive synthesis of extraction and production, of material/media to dancing body and vice versa, of digitised to contemporary, idiosyncratic artistic gesture and vice versa. Movement machines translate, transpose, transfer, couple, ‚queer‘ or associate material/media and dance physique.  

19. November 2024, 18.00 – Festsaal des Bezirksamtes des 18. Bezirks
Martinstrasse 100, 1180 Wien

Design: restr()ct – Tobias Leibetseder

Publishing partner: epodium Verlag
https://www.epodium.de

Funded through:

‘Digitale Transformation’ 2023-24, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport (Federal Ministry, Republic of Austria – Arts, Culture, Civil Service & Sport)