Skin, and Other Boundaries & Future Playground
10. bis 14. Juni 2025 Tanzquartier Wien
PhD-Kandidat David Bloom lädt zu Workshops und Performance
Skin, and Other Boundaries
Workshop am 10. und 11. Juni 2025, 13.30 Uhr
Before we can dance with Pleasure and Desire, we must dance with Boundaries.
On a social level, clear articulations of boundaries lay the ground for a safer space of encounter to emerge. On the level of consciousness, as in the biblical creation story, separation and individuation are prerequisites for awareness itself. We can only be in relationship to that which is not us. Artistic processes, too, those little acts of creation, can be perceived as processes of separation – what do I let in, what do I decide to keep out this time?
In this workshop, we will be begin by working somatically – for instance, tuning in to the sensations of our skin – as well as draw on David’s current PhD research around sexual, mystical, and choreographic practices as tools for cultivating a consensual erotic relationship with the world at large.
Day 1 and day 2 can be attended independently of each other or together. The lab aims to be accessible to all bodies and will be in English.
Future Playground
Performance am 13. und 14. Juni 2025
What do you want the future to be like? And what are the conditions for adequately answering that question? Through artistic research, game design, legal theory, DJing and more, the two-day theory festival Future Playground asks how shifting our conceptions and experiences of time might allow us to imagine and enact critical visions of the future.
Licking meteorites to explore the expansion of extractivism; playing with dinosaurs to probe the Anthropocene; having your fortune told to tune in with desire as a politicised state; taking part in games to imagine anti-ableist futures; manipulating clay to undo normative concepts of time: guided by the semi-fictional, rules-based but open-outcome, nonproductive universe of play, Future Playground is an invitation to mess up time and seek futurities we want to inhabit.
With: David Bloom, Ammar Bustami, Imayna Caceres, Julia Grillmayr, Christina Gruber, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, Ralo Mayer, Liv Schellander, Kara Stone, Mitchell Travis
David Bloom is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, parent, filmmaker, bodyworker, pianist, and fermenting Jewish mystic. David has shared his work in many contexts, including HZT Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, TQW, STRETCH Festival Berlin, K3 Hamburg, M.A. CoDE Frankfurt, Touch & Play Festival, Rietveld Academy for Fine Arts & Design in Amsterdam, & ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Current PhD candidate at Zurich University of the Arts and University of Arts Linz.