Katharina ‘Senki’ Senk and Theresa ‘Ray’ Scheinecker

A Tactile Introduction into the installation Choir of Kin

brut nordwest
Tactile introduction in German
imagetanz 2024
{Accessibility} {Sensorial practice} {Aesthetics of access}

In poetic narrations providing histories and backgrounds, we learn stories and potentials surrounding the objects that play an important role in the installation. The tour addresses blind or visually impaired audiences. We will wander through the landscape together with a sighted person guiding us on a fixed route and providing us to get in touch with the materials. 

In the installation Choir of Kin, the voices of numerous lifeforms come together in a fictional habitat. The collective Transformative Narratives applies a queer understanding of kinship to research involving ecology, biology, and musical theory as a way of rethinking our relationship with our natural environment.

, © Photo: Anaïs Horn, Graphic design: Fondazione Europa

A group of sparrows against a background of fir branches. In the foreground a sparrow is flying, its bright wings are spread and the movement is blurred in the shot. The other sparrows are sitting on branches in the background. Light falls through the branches and bathes the scene in warm green. An idyllic atmosphere that radiates a sense of optimism.

Katharina ‘Senki’ Senk will devise the tactile introduction, advised by Theresa ‘Ray’ Scheinecker, an expert through personal experience.

Katharina Senk aka Senki (she/her) lives in Vienna as a white, female, non-disabled dance artist. She performed in pieces of, among others, Doris Uhlich, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Ostertag, Georg Blaschke, and Michael Turinsky. In her own creations, Katharina tries to combine her interest in post-humanism, pleasure, and intersectional feminism with her knowledge in the fields of dance, movement, and martial arts. Senki co-hosts the association tanz.sucht.theater with Maartje Pasman that has been a framework for many exciting creations in recent years considering the issue of accessibility on several levels and involving important companions such as Tanja Erhart. Since late 2022, Senki also engages in artistic audio description.

Theresa Scheinecker aka Ray (she/her) lives in Vienna as a white, disabled artist and psychologist. Ray was part of PARASOL (Tanzquartier Wien) in 2022 and has appeared in works by Ian Kaler, Alix Eynaudi, and Michael Turinsky. Ray’s movement language develops from various practices, such as urban styles, acrobatics, and contemporary.

Last year, drawing on her experience as a person with visual impairment, Ray entered the field of audio description, where she wants to share her perspective with the goal to create more accessibility for blind and visually impaired audiences in the dance/performance world.

 

Note

Participants are welcome to leave the room or to take a break at any time. The stage will be reorganized as a space for relaxation and retreat, where curtains, pillows and mattresses invite the audiences to linger and lay down.

*Early Boarding means that brut will provide sufficient time for everybody before the event to arrive, find a place, and get comfortable in the space with no rush. The brut entrance area will be the gathering point. brut staff is happy to assist you. Beanbag chairs and different seating possibilities will be available.

If you have any further questions regarding accessibility while arriving or during the event, please let us know at any time at: info@brut-wien.at

Dates & Tickets

Registration: info@brut-wien.at 

Participants are welcome to leave the room or to take a break at any time. The stage will be reorganized as a space for relaxation and retreat, where curtains, pillows and mattresses invite the audiences to linger and lay down.

*Early Boarding means that brut will provide sufficient time for everybody before the event to arrive, find a place, and get comfortable in the space with no rush. The brut entrance area will be the gathering point. brut staff is happy to assist you. Beanbag chairs and different seating possibilities will be available.

We are happy to organise a pick-up service for you from Nordwestbahnstraße (line 5) and Taborstraße (line 2) tram stations at 5:45 pm. Please register at: info@brut-wien.at

If you have any further questions regarding accessibility while arriving or during the event, please let us know at any time at: info@brut-wien.at

March 2024

Sat. 16.03.2024, 18:30
Free admission, registration: info@brut-wien.at / Pick-up service from 5:45 pm/ Early boarding* 6:00 pm

brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
accessible

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