Fox Trot, Crab Step, Lame Duck, Roger Rabbit, Do the Pony:
Animal Dancing as a Technology of Co-Evolving Bodies
Spring Symposium
15 – 16 May 2024
Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW
On-site and online
Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building, HGK Basel FHWN
With contributions by Fahim Amir, Claire Filmon for Simone Forti / Projet DICI, Kate Foley, Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey / Performances for Pets, Edith Karlson, Lisa Moravec, Alejandra Pombo Su, Filipa Ramos and Carlos Casas, and Feifei Zhou
16 May 2024, 4.30 pm
Performance
Simone Forti’s Striding Crawling (1977) performed by Claire Filmon / Projet DICI
der TANK
Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
Research: Marion Ritzmann
Press: Anna Francke
The symposium is open to the public and will be held in English.
In Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), E.O. Wilson, an American biologist and authority on ants, advocated for the interrelatedness and evolutionary origins of all human thought, and used the notion of consilience to name the magical “jumping together” of all knowledges. That is, what we might call today, all existing forms of intelligence. The spring symposium at Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW is dedicated to such movement—jumping, robotic, animal or otherwise—and the various knowledges and forms of life it brings together. Entitled Fox Trot, Crab Step, Lame Duck, Roger Rabbit, Do the Pony: Animal Dancing as a Technology of Co-Evolving Bodies, the symposium will be devoted to histories, choreographies, and ideas of animal movement and their evolution and appropriation in dance and performance across eras, cultures, and geographies. Over the course of two days, 15 and 16 May 2024, the spring symposium at Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW will bring together artists, choreographers, dancers, theorists, filmmakers, and hybrid practitioners, all of whom will consider animal dancing as both an ancient and nascent technology oriented toward understanding the co-evolution of bodies. A closing performance of Simone Forti’s Striding Crawling (1977) by Claire Filmon / Projet DICI will take place in der TANK, on 16 May 2024.
https://dertank.ch/we-explore/gender/#animaldancing