Updated Call for Presentations: BODY IQ 2019

BODY IQ 2019:

On being human in a world begging for our passion, compassion and action.

Somatische Akademie Berlin  15.-17. 11. 2019

Organisers: Kai Erhardt (Somatische Akademie Berlin) & Thomas Kampe (Bath Spa University, UK)

Body IQ Festival 2019 aims to address questions of re-embodiment in a context of global ethical and ecological crisis. Over the last decades somatic practices have become a growing field of sensorial, experiential and emancipatory learning within a broad range of educational, therapeutic and artistic contexts. How can somatic practices contribute to a re-education of attention and human interaction with a sustainable living world? How do we mobilise, activate and organize a culture of somatic passion and care for a dignified future for all?

The 2019 festival has a focus on dissemination, networking, application and somatic-activisms beyond the field into a diverse range of cultural and social environments.

The three day festival runs between 15th and 17th of November 2019, and offers workshops, talks, panel-discussions and performances with international presenters.

Invited presenters include: Funmi Adewole (UK); Glenna Batson (US/IE); Jenny Coogan (DE); Elisa Cotroneo (US);Marion Evers (DE);  Tiago Gambogi ( BRA/UK) ; Heike Kuhlmann (DE); Chris  Lewis-Smith ( UK); Katja Münker (DE); Obrador de Moviments (ES); Mike Poltorak (UK); Sian Sullivan (UK); Lisa May Thomas (UK);Mark Walsh ( UK);  Dörte Weig (ES) ; Sarah Whatley (UK)

BODY IQ Festivals have been hosted by Somatische Akademie Berlin in dialogue with international partners since 2015 as a forum for critical engagement with and development of practices of embodiment in socio-political contexts.  Find more information about past BODY IQ Festivals visit: 

https://www.somatische-akademie.de/deutsch/angebote/Body-IQ-Festival.html

We are inviting artists, educators and scholars to contribute through workshops, academic presentations, performances and artefacts, lectures, or other alternative formats:

Topics might be concerned with:

Critical Somatics ; Somatic Activism  & Applied Somatics

Somatic Performance Cultures; The Power of Touch

Moving Masculinities; Moving Gender; Critiquing the Euro-centric

Somatic Education for different Age-Groups ; Somatics and diverse abilities

Re-moving Trauma; Somatics in the Digital Age; Intercultural Somatic Networks

Somatics and Enactivism; Eco-Somatics & Eco-Crisis

Re-Embodiment and/as Re-Empowerment

Deadline for Applications Dec 1st 2018; feedback from organisers by December 10th 2018

To apply send a 200 word abstract/proposal and a 200 word biog. to t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk

For more information contact Thomas Kampe t.kampe@bathspa.ac.uk or                                                                                                       

Kai Erhardt     erhhardt@somatische-akademie.de