SS 23 / Workshop and presentation by Magdalena Kallenberger

This workshop combines physical exploration, discussion and writing exercises. We will examine the possibilities and impossibilities of adopting and “owning” movement and will take a closer look at notions of copying, imitation, appropriation, passing and other modes of “coming close(r)” to a specific physicality. As part of this workshop I will give insight into my artistic work with physical appropriation and body archives, mainly the projects “9½ minutes dancing dying” (2016) and “Try Leather” (2021).

Magdalena Kallenberger is an artist, writer, educator and researcher. She works with video, photography, performance, installation and text, combining research into feminist histories and writing with autobiography, theory and performative elements. Kallenberger’s research-based and often collaborative practice investigates themes around radical care and feminist practices tackling the in/visibility of care/work and motherhood(s) not just in the Arts. Kallenberger’s most recent articles and essays will appear in publications with MIT Press (2023), k-Verlag (2023), demeter press (2023) and gender(ed) thoughts (2023). She has co-edited “Re-Assembling Motherhood(s): On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices” by MATERNAL FANTASIES, published with onomatopee in 2021, second edition in 2022. Available via onomatopee https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/re-assembling-motherhoods/. Magdalena Kallenberger is initiator, co-founder and active member of MATERNAL FANTASIES collective and was member of CAIRO BATS