The Space Between Us: Somatic Knowledge and New Techno-Spatial Scopes

The increasing complexity of the body as a data subject within the urban terrain constantly creates a need for the critical terminologies of the somatic to be reconsidered. This studio explores how we can use embodied listening practices to attune to the evolving network-based spatial scopes that shape our social and political urban environment and imagine new forms of matter-body-data alliances.

Course leader

Ofri Cnaani

Target group

Anyone interested in Performance, sound, installation, urban innervations

Course aim

Like a public laboratory, the studio class brings forward the possibility of using embodied, auditory, and visual tools to provoke the prevailing data-centric norms of urban living. Through experimental encounters, the course aims to negotiate the complex relations between body, data, and public space and develop a set of social technologies to expose the temporalities of current techno-political building entanglements. By employing embodied listening, we will pay close attention to how our bodies are regulated by the emerging data landscape and develop personal projects that imagine possibilities of anticipatory spatial forms as enduring spaces for productive interruption.

Fee info

EUR 100: Participation Fee
The fees consist of the enrolment charge of € 100.– (non-refundable) and a course fee which varies according to the length of the course. Students are entitled to the reduced fee on production of a valid confirmation of enrolment at an educational institution for the 2024 summer term as well as SN-Card-holders and members of the Society of Friends of the Summer Academy.

Costs for material used in the courses are not included in the participation fee, and will be charged separately at the beginning of the course.

On acceptance, the enrolment charge of € 100.– should be paid immediately. The course fee must be entered in the Summer Academy account by 30 June 2024.

Payments will be accepted using the following credit cards: Mastercard and Visa
EUR 670: Students attending two consecutive courses pay the enrolment fee only once; the course fee is calculated according to the total number of weeks.
2-week course:
€ 670.– (normal fee)
€ 495.– (reduced fee)

Scholarships

https://www.summeracademy.at/en/studies/scholarships/