Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Narrations of Bare Bodies
Project lead: Mariella
Greil-Möbius
Art and Communication Practices
Duration: 01.03.2019 - 28.02.2023
Austrian Science Fund (FWF):
V 733 Richter-Programm (inkl. Richter-PEEK)
Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Narrations of
Bare Bodies is a research project led by Mariella Greil. In dialogue with international specialists from the fields of
Performance, Philosophy and Therapy, she explores the various relations and intersections between the three research areas
with a focus on practices/forms/methods of Being-In-Contact, investigating, reflecting and synthesising the sharings
and differences between them.
With ‘practice as research’ at its heart, Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Narrations of
Bare Bodies stages a variety of choreo-ethical, inter-subjective and transdisciplinary encounters and explores the movements,
interlinkings and interstices between practice and theory, developing fluency between thinking and doing. The conceptual bearing
of choreo-ethical assemblages as highly mobile assemblies bound to singular, aesthetic-communicative situations gets
probed in practice. A plurality of dialogue practices and modalities are to hand in the proposed cross-disciplinary laboratories.
The hypothesis is that such assemblages arise in art, philosophy and therapeutic settings alike and the proposition is to
explore how choreo-ethics – a newly coined term – have the capacity to activate processes, that form the fabric of social
aesthetics through creative, performative tools. A variety of techniques, scores and practices of getting in touch, nurturing
attention, thinking – through and with – arise as sensorial bodies. In expanded time frames dedicated to studio-experiments,
an awareness and the skill to sustain inter-relational, choreo-ethical culture grow based on experiences and acts interwoven
with dialogic discourse.
This singular research project works towards articulations and actualisations of politicised
practice and immanent ethical forces, emerging specifically where meetings, collisions and generative resistances
occur between people, but also between fields of practices (Performance, Philosophy and Therapy). Opening up and closely investigating
the non-verbal and verbal methods in the forming of encounters, interactions, traces or speculations within the framework
of polylogic laboratories is central, resulting in embodied knowledges and their dissemination through workshops, lab openings,
performances, lectures and publications. A rich collection of Narrations of Bare Bodies will be developed – rehearsed
and probed in the space of art as a potent social intervention – and findings as well as research processes will be shared
with the public.