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Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator's Toolkit for Overcoming Language Barriers (2025) Alice Presencer
'Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator’s Toolkit for Overcoming Language Barriers' is a practice-led research project that explores the ways to encourage group connection through non-textual, embodied communication within diverse communities. Drawing on work experience with immigrant children, refugees, and deaf/hearing collaboratorsβ€”as well as recent research residencies with ASSITEJ Norway, The Flying Seagulls and Red Nose Emergency Smilesβ€”the project contains a growing body of facilitation strategies as an open-source toolkit. Rooted in my personal experience of linguistic displacement and background in voice and dance, this project proposes a shift away from text-centric facilitation models toward approaches that prioritise emotional intuition and situational awareness. The project is underpinned by critical frameworks around embodied knowledge, power, and positionality, aiming to challenge colonial and exclusionary norms around communication. Ultimately, it seeks to empower facilitators and communities alike to trust in the expressive potential of the body and encourage inclusive, trust-based spaces for collective performing arts experiences.
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SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo (2025) Diana Ferro
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo Two weeks workshop held in Benidorm, Spain, in August 2024. In the context of EASA, European Architecture Students Assembly 2024 event. Tutored by Diana Ferro and Angelo Ciccaglione. πΌπ“‰β€™π“ˆ 𝒢𝓁𝓁 π’Άπ’·π‘œπ“Šπ“‰ 𝑒𝓂𝒷𝓇𝒢𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 π“‡π‘’π“π’Άπ“π’Άπ“‰π’Ύπ‘œπ“ƒ. 𝐿𝑒𝓉'π“ˆ 𝑒𝓂𝒷𝒢𝓇𝓀 π‘œπ“ƒ π“‰π’½π’Ύπ“ˆ π’Ώπ‘œπ“Šπ“‡π“ƒπ‘’π“Ž π‘œπ’» π“Œπ‘’π“π“π“ƒπ‘’π“ˆπ“ˆ π“‰π‘œπ‘”π‘’π“‰π’½π‘’π“‡. In a sauna, people meet strangers and exchange stories while absorbing heat being naked and sweaty. In this workshop we brought the sauna to a step further: we absorbed heat, stories, gestures, words, objects, skills, dreams and sweat them out to other people, re-enacting what we have learned. Also naked, why not. We learnt how to live, how to breathe, how to make a kebab, how to embody old wisdom, how to tie shoes the proper way. All you need is a fan, a towel and a body. A kebab stick, a drink, some snackies. Participants developed a deeper perspective on what it means to operate within a complex identity such as the city and gained skills to open their own kebab shop.
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Traces and Paths Towards Singularly-Plural Companionships (2025) Fulya UΓ§anok
This exposition emerged from my participation in the second interval of the Simultaneous Arrivals (Simularr) Artistic Research Projectβ€”a research project inviting international artist-researchers to explore relational, situated, and process-based inquiries in dialogue with core researchers. Core researchers: Nayari Castillo, Hanns Holger Rutz, Franziska Hederer, and Daniele Pozzi. For the second interval, the visual artist and researcher Elena Radaelli and I were invited as visiting artist-researchers. (More information on Simultaneous Arrivals: https://simularr.net/about/) The exposition presents my process during the residency, i.e. my Traces and Paths Towards a Singularly-Plural Companionships. The eight-week residency (3 March-30 April 2024) took place across three sites: Graz (Austria); Lecce, San Cesario (Italy); and Klagenfurt (Austria). The exposition traces this journey through various mediums, including texts, graphics, video and audio material experiments, field encounters, and theoretical companions. My processes, are informed and shaped by my companion collaboratorsβ€”human (research-creation companions), more-than-human, textual, and materialβ€”who co-inform and co-create the unfolding of the research.
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How do chairs lead to extinction? (2025) If applicable
Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025. BA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design Summary (8968 words)
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my Mothers (2025) Timour Bonin
This thesis explores the interwoven relationships between women, the textile arts, and its heritage, through a personal familial lens. Beginning with the question of the importance textile-making has held in our lives, I investigate whether engaging in crafting practices can reconnect us with tradition and allow us to re-root ourselves in the lives of our ancestors. Drawing from both historical context and intimate family stories, I trace the lineage of textile practices among the women in my family - my Mothers. These include my mother, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, whose experiences with sewing, knitting, crocheting, and weaving shaped their identities and daily lives. For many of them, textile-making was an act born of necessity, a survival skill often dismissed as β€œwomen’s work” within a patriarchal framework. For me, it is a conscious act and a choice - an exploration, a reclamation, and a form of personal and cultural healing. Through self-taught practice and reflection, I came to realise how textile traditions carry knowledge, strength, and connection across generations. My research, grounded in both historical analysis and storytelling, shows how making can become a language of remembrance and resistance, a way to bridge fragmented identity and reclaim belonging. In honouring the textile legacies of the women who came before me, I have tied myself into their story, not by romanticising their struggles, but to acknowledge their creativity and resilience. With each thread, I reconnect to a maternal lineage that continues to live through my hands.
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A glimpse of the past (my Mothers' appendix) (2025) Timour Bonin
This appendix is comprised of a small collection of photos that can be examined alongside the thesis 'my Mothers'.
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