Isabel Lewis
Unambitious Stripper Workshop
- Workshop
Minimum age: 18 years
English / approx. 120 mins.
English / approx. 120 mins.
In this workshop, Isabel Lewis shares ideas that inform her performance practice with a specific focus on the performative encounter with another. Lewis will introduce feminist sociologist Roslyn Bologh's notion of “erotic sociability” as a form of interhuman sociality and guide a conversation about this as an alternative to the relational modes of competition, conflict, and coercion that tend to dominate relations in a consumer society. This workshop will then focus on the tuning and heightening of the senses in order to facilitate a state of hyper-presence that will be the aid towards generative and affective forms of being and moving together.
The figure of the unambitious stripper serves as a metaphor guiding us to connect with our inner worlds in order to become more radically receptive to our outer worlds. “Unambitiousness” is key to the notion of the unambitious stripper. The outward-oriented gaze of the stripper that usually reaches out to address and arrest the client with the ambition of monetary gain is turned in upon itself in this scenario. The gaze here, rather than static or stable, moves through a number of modes in a dramaturgy guided by Lewis’ voice and sound. These exercises for the eyes and other senses are a preparation for quite literally seeing and doing differently. Rather than stripping off our clothes, we will use our imaginations to turn our attention inward, toward the surface of our own skin and imagine playfully peeling away or adding on layers of social construct and identity.
The unambitious stripper moves first as a gift for oneself and then for others. This dance becomes the mediator of relations between the human and material presences they share space with. What emerges is a processual, double-motion of inner and outer, a becoming and an undoing in relation to another (human or otherwise) on a continuum of becoming an object of interest and being drawn out as an interested subject.
Dates
Past
Notes:
No previous experience necessary. Please bring comfortable clothes.
An awareness team will be on site and can be contacted at any time.
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can be booked via the ticketing system. If you need any help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email at
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
