Let's Talk About Bodies:
Embodiment as a Gateway to (almost) Everything

What is the role of our bodies in the thought process? How can I proactively integrate embodiment knowledge during a creation process? This workshop offers a space for artists and practitioners from all disciplines to explore new perspectives on connecting and collaborating. We look forward to a cross-disciplinary exchange with participants who have prior experience in body movement. Using body-centered exercises as the guidance, we examine concepts around the "body" and its role in both individual and collective creation. Participants are encouraged to bring their existing experiences and methodologies to the conversation.

Sometimes Nothingness is an embodiment practice developed by TingAn Ying. Participants are guided to experience the inner sedimentation – where thoughts, emotions, and sensations settle. The intentional stillness is an embodied, performative exercise of absence as presence that allows clarity to emerge from chaos. The practice is meditative yet incorporates movement possibilities, when relevant, according to personal desire and capacity.

TINGAN YING (she/her)  is a Han-Taiwanese artist and cultural practitioner based in Berlin. Drawing on a solid background as a dancer, her practice is rooted in performance and embodiment, with previous collaborators including Falk Richter, Anouk van Dijk, and Emanuel Gat. TingAn's work examines the inherent conflicts within social constructs, probing themes of memory/ identity/ experience. She strives for transformative collaborative formats and also works as a facilitator and producer. TingAn co-founded Second Half – an artist-run initiative.