HKB / Audience guidance, agency & bewilderment 

Campus Wahlmodul / Master Class / Kursangebot der Partnerschule (HKB)

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Nummer und TypMTH-MTH-WPM-04.23H.001 / Moduldurchführung
ModulMaster-Campus-Theater-CH 04 ECTS 
VeranstalterDepartement Darstellende Künste und Film
LeitungKate McIntosh
Zeit
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 12
ECTS4 Credits
VoraussetzungenWorkshop
InhalteThis is a practical seminar focused on exploring relationships with audiences, particularly in the context of works that invite an audience to physical or social involvement. The early sessions of the seminar include an introduction and analysis, in discussion with the students, of existing interactive works from my own practice.

The following sessions focus on a possible methodology for approaching the design of interactive formats. These are methods that I am continually developing through my own practice and can be offered as mutable tools for others. They map a working flow – from initial questions that inform the design of audience invitations and situations, through to the subsequent ethical and artistic questions that are likely to arise, and strategies to address them. This includes discussions about audience agency and autonomy, transgression, exposure, implicit and explicit instructions, refusal, collaboration, sensorial situations and thinking-through-doing.

After this theoretical groundwork, the main part of the seminar involves students proposing their own designs for audience interactions, on different scales and in varying formats and durations. Through accumulative tasks and guided conversations, these designs are tested, developed and refined. Some will be fully realised within the workshop, others will be considered as hypothetical proposals.

A vital element of the seminar is developing techniques for exchanging with colleagues and “test” audiences to gain insight into one’s own and others’ work. Students will have the option to work alone or in small groups, but tools for a collaborative culture of feedback and co-development will be introduced across the whole group. I will also suggest strategies for relating with test audiences, whose responses become a key element in understanding and refining the interactive proposals.
Termine06.-10.11.2023 and 20.-24.11.2023
Dauer10:30-17:30 Uhr, ausser 10.11.2023, 10:30-13:00
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SpracheEnglisch
BemerkungKate McIntosh (1974, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist who works across the boundaries of performance, theatre and installation. Her work often focuses on the physicality of both performer and public, the misuse of objects and materials, and developing direct relations with and between audience members. She has ongoing fascinations with the sensory, transformation, collectivity, animal-human connections, destruction, mess, humour, care.
https://spinspin.be/about/kate-mcintosh/