Teaching a workshop at Olafur Eliasson Studio, Berlin

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Writer and specialist in contact improvisation Joe Dumit, together with multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and dancer Kevin O’Connor invited studio members to explore biotensegrity principles. Tensegrity, a term coined by Buckminster Fuller, is a structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension. The improvisation session, held at the studio kitchen, moved from observing foam bubbles to simulating flexible fascia systems by holding onto each others’ clothing.

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‘As you wander, pick one person in the room and keep them two meters to your right.’ Fascia workshop, led by Kevin O’Connor & Joe Dumit at Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2018. Read more about Kevin’s exciting work here: www.ecologicalbodying.com @kevinoconnor6509 . . . Sense-abilities Score: muscles / bones / organs / veins / nerves / brain / lymph / tendons i. attend to each word, one at a time (1 minute) ii. linger on one of the words, close your eyes and sense into the felt sense of the word in your body (3 minutes) iii. move, while foregrounding the chosen word in your body (for example move from your muscles) and name out loud all of the associated felt senses and the qualities of the movement associated with the word (5 minutes) iv. write down these qualities v. repeat with a few of the words vi. repeat with the word fascia – from Kevin O’Connor, ‘Scores as Practice: Scoring as Method’

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