Nina Glockner

Mind the Body, Move Matter

A performative/somatic practice
within art and design education

Within the scope of my ongoing practice-based research and educational activities, I explore how materiality is altered by subjective awareness, and develop a concrete spectrum of Scores as ‘exercises’ for that awareness. The interrelatedness between the processing subject and the processed material is a relevant aspect: to which degree can a change of the subject’s intention, attention, and (spatial) perceptiveness lead to a change of artistic process, action, and outcome?
In collaboration with artists, theatre makers, educational professionals, students, doctors, and many (potential) others, I am searching ways how somatic and performative knowledge can be applied within contemporary art/design production, education, and beyond.

Bodies are also working together in the way artist Nina Glockner learns about "inner body movement." She lets workshop participants carry matter in such a way that it is neither choreography nor work. What is it then? These somatic practices explore the perception of the individual body in relation to other bodies, the mind, space, time, movement, and matter. By providing collective experimental exercises, Glockner wants to challenge and lay bare the various ways in which we are conditioned to move and think. The collective dynamics or fabrics of bodies to which these collaborative practices of moving matters lead in her research, could, according to her, restore one's contact with themself, their surroundings, and everything in it. They can reanimate and bring to the surface what we humans have lost in transition from being in the world to just functioning in it.
It is a way of worldmaking not through intervening in Earthly structures but by deconditioning bodies that inhabit Earth.
Esma Moukthar, introduction Fellows in Print 2020-21

2022

Fellows in Print 2020–2021