With making more room for critical thinking, Workspace Ricerca X continues the path initiated in the previous edition: activating and nurturing a research environment as a space where we can collectively ignite and practice critical thinking.
The circulation of knowledge, methods, formats, practices and materials is what keeps defining this environment, where we push the walls to open up further space for reflexive discussions and critical debate between peers, to make frictions emerge, to new intimacies with unthought thoughts.
where does critical thinking reside? how do we activate it and make it circulate? which frictions emerge and how do we dwell them? what happens inside and what happens outside?
For the 2024 edition, the activities revolve around a residency research, supported by Culture Moves Europe – a project funded by the European Union, implemented by the Goethe Institut – involving four international artists: Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Hannah Krebs, Heike Langsdorf, Alice MacKenzie,m together with the presence of Silvia Bottiroli as guest.
With this layer of exclusively international participation, new for the project, addressed so far mainly to Italian artists, we extend the geographical borders of its resonance, in a mixture of different approaches to research shaping and redefining a space for artistic research outside the academic context.
Next to the residency, the third edition of the Research CAMPING will take place, as a space dedicated to the public display of research processes, co-curated with Lavanderia a Vapore, together with the the second edition of the Palestra del Feedback, a training residency for artists and curators focusing on feedback, co-curated with shared training torino e Lavanderia a Vapore.
Making room for more critical thinking is the program of Workspace Ricerca X for 2024, which takes shape through one research residency, supported by Culture Moves Europe and Lavanderia a Vapore / Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, the Research CAMPING – Floating Bodies, a space dedicated to the public positioning of research processes, co-curated with Lavanderia a Vapore, and the Palestra del Feedback, a training residency for artists and curators focusing on feedback, co-curated with shared training torino e Lavanderia a Vapore
The 2024 research residency is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union, implemented by the Goethe Institut.
The EU and the Goethe Institut are not responsible for the views expressed in the publications and/or in conjunction with the activities for which the mobility support is used.
Lavanderia a vapore
Corso Pastrengo, 51
Collegno (TO) Camping Camping
Resident artists Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Hannah Krebs, Heike Langsdorf, Alice MacKenzie Guest Silvia Bottiroli Artists curators Francesco Dalmasso, Elisa D’Amico, Ambra Pittoni Cover and photo Andrea Macchia
*The EU and the Goethe Institut are not responsible for the views expressed in the publications and/or in conjunction with the activities for which the mobility support is used.
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Continuing to research the mutually transformable through performance, text and image making, I am interested to look into, observe and register the notion of the alien, the viral and the infectious as affective, bodily and technological phenomena. In addition to exploring weird fiction as a template for embodied experience, I am curious how the literary character of ‘the scientist’ could work as a score, rather than a script. — Out of nowhere comes a bundle of text, a piece of language. Ominous and threatening, this alien enters (through the ear? or is it the eyes?) and soon it is no longer possible to voice to mouth to speak without housing this intruder.
Marko Gutić Mižimakov (1992) is a visual, performance and text based artist living between Brussels and Zagreb. They are interested in shaping sensory materials through intimate, collaborative and social processes. In their work bodies, as well as digital and palpable objects, are animated, choreographed and sung into non-orientable forms via different media and processes of translation. Often borrowing from queer science fiction they see their work as a speculative technology of mutual transformation. In 2022-23 They were an artistic researcher at A.PASS – Brussels. Currently they are an adjunct faculty member at Paris College of Art in the department of Transdisciplinary New Media.
My current research lingers around storytelling, flirting through a dancing body, set material, world building and serious playfulness. I use imagination as a portal to exchange together in another realm where one can become whoever they feel like today. It will be heavily influenced by my latest production “u n f i n i s h e d b u s i n e s s” where I have studied poses/images of male pop-bands such as Backstreet Boys and Linkin Park. For warm-up and finding joy in sweating I would love to share a Heavy Metal Ballet class which I started to teach last year.
Hannah Krebs (she/they) is a german dance artist based between Stockholm (SE) and Cologne (DE). Their works reveal an urgency for fractures, working with techniques of semi- fictional world buildings from a feminist and critical perspective. Within the craft of dance, Hannah is creating scenarios to insert and widening the cracks as a joint effort to help imagining a radically different world.
They have been presenting at various festivals and venues such as OutNow Festival, MDT Stockholm and Weld. As a dancer they are working with Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Judit Förster and Ellen Söderhult.
Headshot picture credits Linda Wardal Artistic research picture credits Gergely Ofner
During the Ricerca residency I hope to develop my research into the ways in which both speculative fiction and performance scores have the potential to build temporary worlds, spaces for the unknown to play out. I am currently busy thinking, dancing and writing with wetlands, the choreographic potential of scent and the entangled relationship between humans and more-than-humans. Wetlands have caught hold of me for the strange things they do with time. Fertile edge-lands of mud and water.
Alice MacKenzie is a dance artist, performer and writer based in Stockholm. Her practice enfolds speculative fiction with medicinal plants and cultures of bacteria which she shares as performances, perfumes and leaky texts. As a performer Alice has worked alongside other artists in galleries, forests and on stages across Europe. Her most recent commissions include pieces for Sånafest, Nya Nya Norrland, Delta: An Ocean Call and a collaboration with Siriol Joyner for Northern Sustainable Futures.
1.Image credit Pär Fredin. Performer Alice MacKenzie Performance Being With Deeper Softs choreographed by Kristin Nango
2. Image Credit Alice MacKenzie From the work they opened their mouths to speak and the light poured out (2023) in collaboration with Siriol Joyner.
At Ricerca X, she would like to use the opportunity of a research and exchange residency to tie in with her questions about the various privileges she lives with and through.
She will attempt to enter into a dialog with herself as a performer of an older work of hers:
BAGS (2010), in which her mute, motionless and faceless body, completely covered in sack cloth, serves as a projection screen for bystanders.
During the three weeks in Lavanderia, she wants to work with interventions and the exchange of written and recorded testimonies.
Heike Langsdorf is a Brussels based artist exploring the performative qualities of choreographing and conditioning within and beyond the art-institutional field: Trained as a dancer, she connects to artistic making, thinking and researching through a continuous exploration of movement principles: who is dis- or enabling what for whom?
She works at KASK school of arts in Ghent as teacher, mentor and researcher. Together with Simone Basani, Alice Ciresola, Heike Langsdorf and Liselore Vandeput she co-runs radical_hope & radical_house.
Ripetere, interrompere, sospendere. Il ritmo come principio curatoriale (Repeating, interrupting, suspending. Rhythm as a curatorial principle)
Silvia Bottiroli is a curator and researcher, working in the field of the live arts and in particular at the intersections of performativity, institutional practices and pedagogies.
She is part of the artistic cohort of Rose Choreographic School in London, teaches at Bocconi University in Milan, and curates, together with Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo, and Michele Di Stefano, the three-year period 2025-2027 of Short Theatre in Rome.
Within the broader field of research on curating as a choreographic practice, Repeating, interrupting, suspending explores, through an open constellation of case studies (performances, interventions, artistic practices…) rhythm as a curatorial principle, with a particular focus on the relationship between performance practices and public space and on the emergence of forms of political subjectification.
