​​Delphine Chapuis Schmitz (Basel/Zurich)​

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In higher arts education, teachers and students alike often ask: How can we read theoretical texts as practitioners? The Master Transdisciplinarity in the Arts at ZHdK has developed a range of reading practices that address this question directly and are currently being brought together in a collection to be shared with practitioners across theoretical, artistic, and transversal fields. This workshop offers insights into this work in progress.

 

Drawing on Barthes’ claim that «the text is worked out in a perpetual interweaving,» and Anzaldúa’s understanding of texts as «acts encapsulated in time, ‘enacted’ each time they are spoken aloud or read silently,» the workshop approaches textuality and meaning performatively. Reading is proposed as a shared practice of activating the senses—both semantically and aesthetically.

 

After a brief introduction to the emerging collection and its conceptual framework, participants will be invited to experiment with a reading situation designed specifically for the conference context. The session unfolds as an iterative process combining embodied and situated reading in individual and collective constellations. The practical exploration will be followed by a collective reflection on what it means to share reading practices: their relevance, transferability, and the concrete challenges involved.

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Dienstag, 9.00–10.30 Uhr

Viaduktraum 2.A05