EXPANSIONS I
Communal Biographies
Workshop with Li Lorian - 3. December 2023
In this workshop participants will develop their own (real or fictitious) biography emerging from (individual or collective) memories, history, language and cultural heritage, while negotiating personal tales within the social context of a group. Combining several disciplines, the workshop functions as a proposal for creative people to involve their private queries within the liberating frame of a research space.
The workshop is free of charge and will include individual exercises of writing, group discussions and carrying a small performative intervention. Come curious!
Who is this workshop for: This workshop is open to authors and creative writers who want to explore the topic of communal biographies. Members of the NMT are invited as well as those who are interested getting to know the NMT. You don`t need to be a published author for this - if you like to write and consider yourself a creative person - this is for you. We especially would love to see a diverse crowd in this workshop: creatives with migration experience, disabilities, BIPoC & queer artists, writers of different ages, religions and diverse skill levels are welcome. The workshop will be conducted in English, but yours doesn`t need to be perfect!
Expansions is a series of events and interventions that the NMT organizes in order to broaden its network, to challenge the limits of the dramatic text and see what working together and in different forms opens up. The workshop is an artistic meeting place and is intended to provide participants with a space for creative exchange and potential future collaborations. Come and play.
How to take part: If this sounds exciting to you please apply via this google form (until 26 November 2023).
The number of participants is limited!
Date: 3. December 2023, 11-16 and public showing 18.30-19.30
Place: schwere reiter Studio, Dachauer Straße 114a, 80636 Munich
Materials: Please bring a notebook and a pen with you.
Li Lorian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer. Her practice consists of long-term research processes in search for visual languages and new performance practices; she is interested in political situations and in the ways documentary materials can be translated into poetic elements.
A Graduate of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem (2011) and the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at Gießen University (2020), where she obtained her MA in Choreography and Performance. She is currently a researcher at the PhDArts program of Leiden University and the KABK, where she examines Jewish cultural connections between body, text and the act of reading. Her work questions existing modes of sovereignty and is looking for the imaginative potential of the performance-space to extend beyond given realities.
Pictures by Michal Hai
