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Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies
Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies is the title of my ongoing and transdisciplinary doctoral artistic research, which encompasses the spectrum of experiences and practices that I have developed as a choreographer, dancer, and Feldenkrais practitioner. Based on my artistic and therapeutic body-oriented work, the research addresses the relationship between the body, language, movement, and the symptomatic within the choreographic realm and beyond it. By drawing from a broader array of fields of knowledge – medicine, psychoanalysis, poetry and literature, and somatic practices – the research has expanded choreography towards disparate discourses and perceptions of the body.
The artistic research will be presented during a three-day performance program of Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons and Studies at MDT. In my studio in Pernestorfergasse 5 – which will be transferred from Vienna to MDT – I will present a collection of works, lessons, sessions, readings, and lectures of my recent research.
At the intersections of the therapeutic and the choreographic, the somatic and the poetic, I have developed several body-orientated practices based on the Feldenkrais Method’s use of language, imagination, and touch. The participants will lay down on mats during the lessons and take part in the studies. As research that foremostly takes place across bodies, Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies is always dialogical. It involves my voice, the sounds of several objects, haptic touch, and the touch of language crossing the bodies of the audience as well as my own.
Please note that the three days of performances will be filmed in their entirety. The videos will be published and archived one the Research Catalogue platform as part of the documentation of my PhD.
The number of participants will be limited according to current Covid-19 preventive measures..
I am looking forward to your participation in the live presentation of my PhD in artistic research at the MDT.
Anne Juren, 11th August 2021
- Ticket information
The tickets are free. You can book them with the link above called “buy tickets”. There is limited capacity due to current restrictions. Please notify us (even if it’s last minute) if you have a ticket but cannot come to the event at ticket@mdtsthlm.se
The three days of performances will be filmed in their entirety. The videos will be published and archived at the Research Catalogue platform as part of the documentation of Anne Juren’s PhD. This means that as an audience member you consent to being filmed.
October 7
October 7 Full Day Pass includes the full day program except for Chromopoems.
Please note that it is examination day and all audiences who book for this day need to commit to staying the full day.
10:00 – 10:25 Introduction and Welcome
10:30 – 11:30 Critical Awareness Lesson
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 13.00 Fantasmical Anatomies Installation and video works
13:00 – 14:00 Break
14:00 –15:00 Sensorial Transference: lecture-performance and demonstration
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:15 Fantasmical Anatomies Lesson
16:15 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 18:30 Chromopoems: Installation-performance for one spectator at the time. Duration 7 minutes.
October 8
October 8 Morning Pass including:
10h-11h30 Critical Awareness Lesson
11h30-13h30 Fantasmical Anatomies Installation and video works
October 8 Afternoon Pass including:
16h-17h Sensorial Transference: lecture-performance and demonstration
17h-18h30 Fantasmical Anatomies Lesson
19-20:30 Chromopoems. Installation-performance for one spectator at the time. Duration 7 minutes. Book your slot.
October 9October 9 Morning Pass including:
10h-11h30 Critical Awareness Lesson
11h30-13h30 Fantasmical Anatomies Installation and video works
October 9 Afternoon Pass including:
16h-17h Sensorial Transference: lecture-performance and demonstration
17h-18h30 Fantasmical Anatomies Lesson
19-20:30 Chromopoems. One on one performance. Duration 7 minutes. Book your slot.
- Program
Program October 7
10:00 – 10:25 Introduction and Welcome
10:30-11:30 Critical Awareness LessonCritical Awareness Lessons are somatic lessons that expose the body to different modes of awareness, proposing various movements of navigation. The participants are invited to lie down on mattresses and close their eyes if they feel like it.
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 -13:00 Fantasmical Anatomies Installation and video works
13:00 -14:00 Break
14:00 – 15:00 Sensorial Transference: lecture-performance and demonstration
Sensorial Transference is a session during which two patients or more can experience different possible interrelations between them. One person, acting as a surrogate for all bodies present, receives treatment while the others lie next to the table and receive the treatment by proxy.
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:15 Fantasmical Anatomies Lesson
Extending the format of Awareness Through Movement Lessons of the Feldenkrais® Method, Fantasmical Anatomies lessons suggest dysfunctional relations and speculative actions of the body using poetic and scientific-anatomical language, which can be taken in but also rejected. The Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons experiments with how verbal, sonic and kinaesthetic languages affect the body and operate in a choreo-therapeutic context.
16:15 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 18:30 Chromopoems: Installation-performance of 7 min. for one spectator.
Chromopoems are the writings I did along my research translated into coloured lights. A Fantasmical Anatomies love poem is transformed into 24 theatrical lights decoding the letters’ sound signals into various colours. The resulting language of the light composition addresses the body of one spectator lying down in the middle of the space.
Program October 8 + October 9
10-11.30 Critical Awareness Lesson
Critical Awareness Lessons are somatic lessons that expose the body to different modes of awareness, proposing various movements of navigation. The participants are invited to lie down on mattresses and close their eyes if they feel like it.
1130-13.30 Fantasmical Anatomies Installation and video works
16-17 Sensorial Transference: lecture-performance and demonstration
Sensorial Transference is a session during which two patients or more can experience different possible interrelations between them. One person, acting as a surrogate for all bodies present, receives treatment while the others lie next to the table and receive the treatment by proxy.
17-18:30 Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons
Extending the format of Awareness Through Movement Lessons of the Feldenkrais® Method, Fantasmical Anatomies lessons suggest dysfunctional relations and speculative actions of the body using poetic and scientific-anatomical language, which can be taken in but also rejected. The Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons experiments with how verbal, sonic and kinaesthetic languages affect the body and operate in a choreo-therapeutic context.
19-20:30 Chromopoems: installation and 7 min performance for one spectator.
Chromopoems are the writings I did along my research translated into coloured lights. A Fantasmical Anatomies love poem is transformed into 24 theatrical lights decoding the letters’ sound signals into various colours. The resulting language of the light composition addresses the body of one spectator lying down in the middle of the space.
- About Anne Juren
Anne Juren (b. 1978, Grenoble) is a choreographer, dancer, and Feldenkrais practitioner. She lives and works in Vienna. In 2003, she co-founded the Wiener Tanz- und Kunstbewegung association. Juren’s choreographic pieces and artistic works are shown worldwide in theatres, festivals, museums, and art venues. Since 2013, Anne Juren has been a Feldenkrais® practitioner. Between 2014 and 2018, she was a member of the Artistic Committee of the Master Programme in Choreography at DOCH in Stockholm. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Stockholm University of the Arts under the supervision of André Lepecki and Sandra Noeth.
- Credits
Artistic research, texts, practices and performance: Anne Juren
Light design: Emese Csornai
Sound design: Alexandre Yannilos
Installation: Anne Juren and Roland Rauschmeier
Performers: Linda Samaraweerova and Caterina Mora
Assistant and text editing: Johanna Thorell
Artistic discussion: Anne Faucheret
PhD supervisors: André Lepecki and Sandra Noeth