16 December 2021

Michael Turinsky

Precarious Mobilizations - A crip choreographer’s perspective in settling / unsettling / resettling

https://hessische-theaterakademie.de/de/ringvorlesung

Articulating disability studies and queer theory in his work on "crip theory", Robert McRuer has coined the notion of "crip" which can be roughly summarized as a disabled body's resistance against what McRuer calls "compulsory able-bodiness". How can we engage in a broader choreographic practice of inventing new forms of movement organization that attend to and, so to say, "care for" mobilization's inherent political and ecological precariousness?

PRECARIOUS MOBILIZATIONS: A CRIP CHOREOGRAPHER`S PERSPECTIVE ON SETTLING / UNSETTLING / RESETTLING

https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb05/atw/aktuelles/un-settled-performance-protection-and-politics-of-insecurity

Michael Turinsky lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. His interest focuses on an engagement with the specific phenomenology of the body, marked as disabled, its specific being-in-the world, its relation to temporality and rhythm, affect and affect production, gender and sexuality, visibility and invisibility; as well as on a rigorous engagement with discourses around the productive tension between politics and aesthetics. Between 1998 und 2005 he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. As a performer he collaborated with, amongst others, Bert Gstettner, Barbara Kraus, Robin Dingemans and Mick Bryson and Doris Uhlich ("Ravemachine", awarded the Nestroy Special Prize 2017). Michael Turinsky held lectures and workshops a. o. at the universities of Linz and Salzburg, at the College Art Association in New York, at Tanzquartier Wien as well as in the frame of the Impulstanz-Festival and he published in various journals.

http://www.michaelturinsky.org