Workshop: Moving Bodies as Writing Bodies

Starting from somatic practices and science fiction narratives as tools for world-making, this workshop explores the reciprocal relation between moving and expanded writing – how the body can catalyze writing as well as how movement can emerge out of writing. In this workshop’s iteration we’ll focus on the imagination of bodies, settings and touch(ing) as possibilities and prefigurations, which build bridges between the past, present and future and can be a tool to map desired futures and embodied presents to build those from. 

The workshop sessions consist of accessible movement and writing exercises as well as reading together and guided meditations. All of these exercises and tools are informed by somatic bodywork, Body-Mind Centering, meditations and visualizations, sci-fi writing and reading, and expanded notion of writing that embraces inconsistency and fragmentation. Throughout thinking and facilitating, the workshop is concerned with the question in how far both, moving and writing, can be tools of resistance against the narrowing impact of institutionalized capitalized structures on forms of living and being in the world as well as ever shifting precarious states.