<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear readers,
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I wanted to bring your attention to a workshop process that we are initiating at <a href="http://www.xleapx.org" target="_blank">LEAP</a> in Berlin together with the artist group bösediva, t</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia;font-size:15px;line-height:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">he workshop is called „Abwesendes Fleisch“ („absent flesh") and focuses on the search for a new language of the body. (See below)</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia;font-size:15px;line-height:1;white-space:pre-wrap">
John McKiernan</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">LEAP</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">bösediva - Abwesendes Fleisch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Eine Bewegungswerkstatt</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">--German below --</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The artists group bösediva is initiating a workshop process in collaboration with LEAP Berlin. We are searching for five to seven participants for a common open learning process.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The workshop is called „Abwesendes Fleisch“ („absent flesh") and focuses on the search for a new language of the body. We are looking for a new quality of movement, which is not contemporary dance, not theater, not therapy, not sport, but maybe art.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The workshop is open end. During its course it will feature public presentations, the form of which will be developed in the group. All members of the group should have a practical or theoretical interest in the performative in some form. Nevertheless, we hope specifically for participants that do not come directly from the dance or Performance backgrounds.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">During the working process body and movement experts will be invited in order to widen the knowledge of the participants. These experts come from professions that require an intensive examination of physicality on a practical or theoretical level.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">They should inspire us to deal with different body conditions and body images, with control and loss of control, health, the body as a machine, an object, an instrument, with forms of disablement, with torture, sports, nutrition or addiction, without losing sight of the practical work on movement.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The input of experts can be incorporated directly or indirectly in the work. The interventions of experts may be public or private.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The workshop will take the form of a bi-weekly, two-hour meeting at LEAP; a public intervention in the first month is our initial goal. This project is currently not funded, no participants and experts fees or allowances can be paid.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Contact: <a href="mailto:diva@boesediva.de" target="_blank">diva@boesediva.de</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-----------------</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wir, die Künstlergruppe bösediva, gründen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem LEAP in Berlin eine Werkstatt und suchen fünf bis sieben Teilnehmer für einen gemeinsamen offenen Lernprozess. Die Werkstatt heißt „Abwesendes Fleisch“. Es geht um die Suche nach einer neuen Körpersprache. Wir suchen eine neue Bewegungsqualität, die nicht zeitgenössischer Tanz ist, nicht Theater, nicht Therapie, nicht Sport, aber vielleicht Kunst.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Das Ende der Werkstatt ist offen. In ihrem Verlauf soll es öffentliche Präsentationen geben, deren Form die Gruppe entwickeln muss. Alle Angehörigen der Gruppe soll ein praktisches oder theoretisches Interesse am Performativen in irgendeiner Form verbinden. Dennoch hoffen wir gezielt auch auf Teilnehmer, die nicht direkt aus dem Tanz- oder Perfomancebereich kommen.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Im Verlauf der Arbeit werden Körper- und Bewegungsexperten eingeladen, die das Wissen der Teilnehmer erweitern sollen. Diese Experten stammen aus Berufen, die eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Körperlichkeit auf praktischer oder theoretischer Ebene erfordern. Sie sollen uns anregen zur Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Körperzuständen und Körperbildern, Kontrolle und Kontrollverlust, Gesundheit, mit dem Körper als Maschine, Objekt, Instrument, mit Behinderung, Folter, Sport, Ernährung oder Sucht, ohne dabei die praktische Bewegungsarbeit aus den Augen zu verlieren.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Der Input der Experten kann direkt oder indirekt in die Arbeit einfließen. Die Interventionen der Experten können öffentlich oder nichtöffentlich sein.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Für den Arbeitsrhythmus wären sind zweiwöchentliche, zweistündige Treffen im LEAP und eine öffentliche Expertenintervention im Monat ein erstes Ziel. Dieses Projekt wird zur Zeit nicht gefördert, Teilnehmern und Experten können keine Honorare oder Aufwandsentschädigungen gezahlt werden.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kontakt: <a href="mailto:diva@boesediva.de" target="_blank">diva@boesediva.de</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">bösediva</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Robin Detje/Elisa Duca</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span 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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Opening hours</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Exhibitions: 12.00-18.00h Tuesday-Saturday (during exhibitions)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">or appointment.</span></p><p 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