#Didakitk „The Digital Dérive: Embodied Experiments in Practising the Social during the Apocalypse“ Michelle Teran

Michelle Teran lecture „The Digital Dérive: Embodied Experiments in Practising the Social during the Apocalypse“ as part of our lecture series #DIDAKTIK, in cooperation with the @HKB Vermittlung / Art Education program at the Bern University of the Arts.

13.10.2021, 18h
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The Digital Dérive: Embodied Experiments in Practising the Social during the Apocalypse

Social Practices is a socially engaged art and design practice of working with social relations, collaboration, and embodiment. Put another way, it can start with how the body senses and makes sense of its environs, while speaking about the ethics and relationality of place, and how we are all intermeshed in the material world. Yet, how can one develop these social and bodily art practices when suddenly most interactions move to a digital environment? In this lecture, I will speak about some of the challenges social practitioners face – artists, designers, and educators – introducing some creative strategies developed by teachers at the Willem de Kooning Academy during the pandemic lockdown. Performance art, movement and score-based practices, locative media, networked performance, and mail art inform these examples.

Michelle Teran (born in Canada) is an educator, artist, and researcher. She is a practice-oriented Research Professor of Social Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA). Her research areas encompass socially engaged and site-specific art, counter-cartographies, social movements, feminist and critical pedagogy. Her artistic works inhabit multiple forms and formats, pedagogical experiments, film, performance, participatory events and video interventions in public space and bookworks. She received her Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. She is former Associate Professor Art & Technology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Winner of several awards she received the Transmediale Award, the Turku2011 Digital Media + Art Grand Prix Award, Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention, and the Vida 8.0 Art + Artificial Life International Competition. She lives and works between Rotterdam and Berlin.

The lecture series #DIDAKTIK Articulations, Algorithms, Infrastructures and Social Media in Critical

Art Education in Digital Times poses new questions in the field of the increased digitization of art education.