Mira Hirtz invites you to collaboratively explore what comfort, discomfort and rest mean to you, and what they might spark – curious encounters, creative dreaming or sleepy uttering. The workshop was developed from Mira’s artistic research on how chronic health conditions and crip time can intervene in our expectations around productivity and efficiency and inspire us to explore the messiness that having a body entails.
How can we allow space for non-anticipated being? How can we grasp the need for rest within urgent world issues as a creative practice? We will work with movement, improvisation and writing and take over Pushkin House with scores for radical rest! Starting from everyday movements and moments of sitting, talking and walking, we will use various somatic and creative techniques to find different bodily positions and expressions in relationship to each other, the architecture around us and the city we are in.
No prior experience in movement or dance is needed. Pushkin House is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please get in touch with us if you have particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
About the Artist
Mira Hirtz is a performance artist, curator and art mediator who bases her work on somatic practices. She explores the value of creativity for human beings and non-human beings in many different formats including performances, painting, video, workshops and exhibitions. She graduated from the MFA Creative Practice at the TL Conservatoire London and from the MA Art Research programme at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe, where she taught performative research practice.
She worked as an art mediator at documenta14, co-curated the program series How do we care? at Badischer Kunstverein 2020, is part of the collective ANTHROPOS EX researching the theatre of the Anthropocene, and is currently the co-project manager and co-curator of the touring exhibition Critical Zones, initiated by the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the Goethe-Institut South Asia and Bruno Latour. She is currently investigatinh the dialogue between chronic health conditions, healing and art.