Workshop & research-based teaching
Introductory Talk on 18.4 2024 at 12-14
Universidad de Granada
Spain
with: Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja,
Cordula Daus, Léna Seraphin, Paula Urbano
in collaboration with Prof. Jaime Mena de Torres
https://writinginpublic.space/

The research project transitory writing in no one’s land is an inquiry structured as corporeal gatherings or workshops interweaving situated, performative and embodied writing as a collective writerly method. In the workshop we will practice explorative writing in a public space and focus on how we can position ourselves in shared spaces and reciprocated texts. Writing as a multi-lingual joint performative activity offers the potential for participants to become aware of one’s cultural disposition and tendencies; how one’s senses and sensitivities might have been culturally conditioned. The workshop is multi-lingual, and writing can be done in any preferred language including made up ones. The workshop is inspired by Georges Perec and his experimental book Tentativa de agotar un lugar parisino. Perec observed Place Saint-Sulpice during three days in October 1974. His idea was to pay attention to the seemingly insignificant, to notice and notate what is taking place when nothing special is happening.

APL Performance Studio, Neues Haus für Wissenschaft und Kunst (ehemalige P.S.K)
Georg-Coch Platz 2
1010 Wien

Mariella Greil, Ricarda Denzer, and Charlotta Ruth, Angewandte Performance Lab (APL), University of Applied Arts Vienna
Cordula Daus, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life
edited by Mariella Greil
The book brings together contributions from the fields of performance, activism, psychoanalysis, and contemporary dance, connecting content and form in a unique way.
To the book

ganz ohr / all ear – Audio Trouble, Para-Listening, and Sounding Research
edited by Ricarda Denzer & Christian Höller
This publication brings to the fore the performative character of the human voice and the unifying, spatial quality of sound and presents works by the artist Ricarda Denzer from the last ten years.
To the book

Questionology – Are you here?
Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth
A zine and exercise book for all those who’d like to know more about the applied art of questioning.
To the book

Zine Launch & Performative Reading
with Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth
brut Wien
Vienna

→ to order the book
Errant Bodies Press, Berlin
from the series Research Practices N°1
21 x 29 cm (softcover)
56 pages
ISBN: 978-3-9823166-9-7
15 EUR

This is the age of the answering machine. Of infinite input fields, of prompts and problem solving, of algorithmic feeding frenzy. But wait. Who/what is behind this text? Have you been reading these lines for real? Are you here?

Since 2019 the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth have explored and trained what might be the last genuinely human quality: how to question, how to make oneself response-able. Together they have created environments, performances, writing exercises and live situations where ideas become material to be touched and processed between people.

Questionology – Are you here? is a zine and exercise book for all those who’d like to know more about the applied art of questioning. Unfolding across three conversations, the zine recombines tricks and moves from midwives, Socratic maieutics, witchcraft and malfunctioning technology. In the opening text an anonymous author-mechanism lures the reader into a series of questions trying to grasp what reading is. Secondly, Daus & Ruth meet the sound artist and editor Brandon LaBelle to reactivate elements of the participatory work Questionology – Program for Applied Questioning (co-produced by brut Vienna, 2021). Equipped with new vegetable names and a towel, the three try out different selves and stances including one of the most complicated ones: listening. Thirdly, the artist Erik Valentin Berg joins the conversation to examine the field of artistic research. Together they defend each others’ titles, fight over ‘useless art’ and get caught in a failed thesis scandal. Hope to meet you there!

Convocation II
Gathering for Language-based Artistic Research
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna

‘We’ is a strange language thing. Depending on its use and context the plural first-person pronoun may include or exclude you and me, the readers; it may co-opt us into unwanted communities or turn us into majesties. Inside the participatory performance Questionology – Program for Applied Questioning (Daus/Ruth 2021), we-speak was used as a central element for world-building. In their workshop Cordula Daus and Charlotta Ruth take up this thread to further explore the potentials and qualities of constrained we-speaking and writing with fellow language nerds. The participants are invited to one-on-one walks and error-friendly conversational improvisations: What happens when we leave the ‘I’ behind? How does language (English) perform through ‘us’?

POETIKWISSEN
Forschen im Schreiben / Schreiben im Forschen
Programm: Michael Eberle & Leonie Pürmayr
Kuratiert von Thomas Eder
Kunsthaus muerz

Mit: Simon Angerer, Ann Cotten, Cordula Daus, Lyrikkollektiv fährten, Lydia Haider, Sophie Liepold,  Barb Macek, Regina Menke, Theresia Prammer, Thomas Raab, Philipp Schönthaler

Wie lässt sich literarisch forschen? Wann ist Forschung literarisch? Und wie lassen sich literarisches Schreiben und wissenschaftliches Forschen in ein produktives Verhältnis setzen? Welchen Einfluss nehmen Archive aller Art auf literarische Prozesse, und vice versa? Welche Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten ergeben sich durch die Nutzung digitaler Textverarbeitungsprogramme und technischer Hilfsmittel?

In ihrem Beitrag untersucht Cordula Daus Konversationsspiele als Behälter für gemeinsames Forschen in und mit Sprache. Anhand von Beispielen aus ihrem Projekt Outer Woman wird sie der Frage nachgehen, was wir eigentlich tun, wenn wir uns unterhalten. Wenn wir uns gegenseitig be/fragen, Metaphern hin- und hertragen: Wie können wir Zustände, die noch nicht da sind, experimentell erahnen? Was können wir von Schwangeren lernen? Lässt sich Inspiration verhüten? Welche neuen Begriffe werden gebraucht? Inkl. Übung: Miteinander Vorbeireden!

I’m happy to return to the artist residency Villa North in August. For five days the performing artists Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck and Charlotta Ruth will join me. Together with the artist Marie-Andrée Pellerin we will play and document „Das Aufhebungsspiel“. Please drop us a line, in case you’re in Kärnten!

Erik Buenger with Cordula Daus and Mihnea Mircan
Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Vienna

What is the relationship between voice-over and image? Does a voice-over give voice to the image? Does it help the image communicate something that images cannot communicate on their own? Common sense tells us that this is how voice-over functions. This artistic research project explores a line of thought that runs contrary to common sense. A voice-over functions – not by giving voice to the image – but by taking voice away. By speaking of the image, the voice-over commands the image to silence. 

Thou Shalt Not Speak brings a group of artists together in a research project that examines whether it is possible to use this paradoxical logic against the voice-over. If the voice-over commands the image to silence, can this silence be mobilised against the voice-over? Can it become an obstacle to speech that blocks the voice-over from articulating what the image means? The evening will begin with Erik Bünger and Cordula Daus introducing the artistic works they have produced as part of their research. Bünger will present his video ‘Nature See You’. Daus will premier her brand new lecture performance ’nipplepeople‘ that responds directly to Bünger’s work. The event will conclude with a discussion between Bünger, Daus and curator Mihnea Mircan where they speak about the research presented and the implications this research has for the wider questions addressed by the project.

Erik Bünger is an artist, writer and composer whose work presents a continuous investigation into the human voice and its paradoxical relationship to human language. His videos, lecture performances and musical compositions have been presented at venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Wellcome Collection in London, The Curitiba Biennial in Brazil and the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara.

Cordula Daus is a writer-artist whose work is concerned with questions of place, sexuality, body and language. From 2010-2016 she published the journal series Toponymisches Heft (Fantôme Verlag Berlin). Her novel SEHR is forthcoming. She has presented her books, lecture performances and collaborative works at brut Vienna, the Research Pavilion #3/Venice and Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Mihnea Mircan is a curator currently based in Bucharest. His most recent projects are the exhibitions Landscape in a Convex Mirror, for the 2021 edition of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara (RO), and A Biography of Daphne at ACCA in Melbourne. From 2011 he served as artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [AR688] 

In ihrem Vortrag spricht Cordula Daus über ihr aktuelles künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt „Outer Woman“ und die Herausforderung, sich einer entfremdenden Praxis, der Ektogenese, auf künstlerische und performative Weise zu nähern. Gemeinsam mit den Künstler*innen Sebastian Bark, [M] Dudeck und Charlotta Ruth, arbeitet sie an einer neuen Phänomenologie der Schwangerschaft bzw. des Schwangergehens. Dabei kommen verschiedene Verfahrensweisen zum Einsatz: Séancen, Atemübungen, Fragebögen, Mythen, Konversationsspiele und andere Formen experimentellen Ahnens.

Eine Veranstaltung der Kunstuniversität Linz (Abteilungen Kulturwissenschaft sowie Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie) in Kooperation mit dem Kepler Salon
Gastgeberinnen: Anne von der Heiden, Jasmin Mersmann

I’m very happy to have been invited to a residency at Villa North in Millstatt/Austria. Laurien Bachmann and Sebastian Six have created an amazing space to work and to co-inhabit. I’m enjoying the deers in the garden, Peter North’s book treasures and The Lake. Besides that: Working on Outer Woman, the podcast. I’ll be back in August!