The workshop explores the potential of empowerment through collective physical movement, using martial arts as a starting point to experiment with and transgress into different forms of movement exploration.
The workshop will teach the participants the basics of the discipline Thai Boxing / Muay Thai and play with the performative transgression of the movement patterns. We will also touch on the specific use of martial arts as a tool for trauma work. We aim to foster a feeling of agency through physical practice and nurture the spirit and the abilities to fight the fights that are meaningful at present.
All bodies and fitness levels are welcome, and you don’t need experience in martial arts or be very sporty. If there are particular needs or injuries, please let me know in advance so I can
adapt the exercise if needed. People who struggle with feeling affected and unsafe due to recent political developments and police aggression, and who struggle with feelings of helplessness, passivity, or freeze responses, are particularly encouraged to join.
Janne Kummer (they / them) works as a cross-disciplinary artist on the intersection of performing and digital art, game design, music and critical theory. JK’s work explores the representational politics of bodies in both analogue and digital space, focusing on current developments in area of Artificial Intelligence. JK uses their work as a tool to question existing power structures and develop alternative queer feminist future visions. Their creative process is based on a somatic understanding and recognises the body as a primary source of knowledge. JK’s background as a martial artist forms the basis for their performative movement practice.
