Talk

Midterm Evaluation: Benjamin Pohlig

In the PhD project protest/dancing/dancing/protest I investigate the relationship between art and politics by purposefully lingering in the gaps between dance, choreography and protest. The project asks what moves us, politically, as bodies to experiment with how to embody and materialise aesthetic, somatic and political experiences in performance and writing in order to reflect upon the role of the body in political
protest at large.

The project departs from my own experiences as a dance maker, thus taking an auto-ethnographic perspective, while being conceptually situated in expanded notions of dance and choreography such as social choreography as well as choreo-reading. The methodology of the project includes field studies into current protest movements, different study group constellations, and movement experiments in the studio and the public.

For the midterm assessment I will share two artistic results with a reading and film screening. Then I will give an overview and insight into where the research has taken me to highlight some of its points of inflection, before a conversation about the research with opponent Merete Røstad.

Programme

09:30 – 09:45 meet and greet with tea and coffee
09:45 – 10:00 Protest Diary Reading - 15 min
10:00 - 10:20 Film Screening with Live Voice Over - 20 min
(Short break)
10:30 - 11:15 Presentation
(Short break)
11:25 - 12:10 Discussion with Merete Røstad
12:10 - 12:30 Q&A from the public

Moderator: Main supervisor Janne-Camilla Lyster
Opponent: Merete Røstad