Try out/Werkstatt
Cordula Daus mit Sebastian Bark und Charlotta Ruth
Angewandte Performance Lab
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
1010 Wien
Freier Eintritt

In der ersten Staffel von outerwoman.xyz  haben wir uns intensiv mit dem menschlichen Reproduktionskomplex und seinem möglichen Umbau auseinandergesetzt. Dabei hat sich in und um uns vieles angesammelt: Absonderliches, Anrührendes, Bescheuertes, Comic-haftes, Misogynes,  Umarmendes, Wutentbranntes, Zynisches. Bevor wir in Staffel 2 ein Programm für neue Beziehungsmuster entwickeln, wollen wir kurz innehalten.

Gefühle sind unser Antrieb. Wir brauchen sie. Doch sind sie nicht auch manipuliert? Spricht nicht „der Mensch mit der alten Weltauffassung“ aus uns (Alexandra Kollontai)? Sind unsere Gefühle nicht geprägt von der patriarchalen und binären Ordnung, der wir gerade zu entkommen versuchen? Und wenn ja: Wie falsch sind diese Gefühle?

In unserem Workshop werden wir konkrete feelings analysieren, um uns als revolutionäre Subjekte neu zu positionieren. Sebastian Bark, Charlotta Ruth und ich geben eine Einführung in eine Technik, die wir gemeinsam testen und verfeinern wollen: Das Selbstgespräch zu Dritt. Ich ist da, und ich und ich auch. Wir laden ein in unsere Ich-Zelle/n um sie mithilfe von KI-generierten Stimmenclones und unseren Gästen zu sprengen. Für Getränke und Spekulatius ist gesorgt.

Situated Writing, Workshop, Research
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
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with Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin,

Just in time for Día de los Muertos! I’m very excited to spend the next weeks in Mexico where I will be writing, researching and teaching alongside to my dear colleagues and as part of Transitory Writing in No One’s Land.

My novel SEHR is out! The cover shows Ulrich von Liechtenstein, aka Venus, in a slightly punked-up version of himself, embarking upon adventures of courtly love. My protagonist Kay goes on a similar quest just a few centuries later. Happy coincidence: Now the book is published by Ritter Verlag. Ask your local book dealer to order SEHR!

Many thanks to Paul Pechmann, publisher at Ritter Verlag, for bringing the book out into the world, to Mark Duran for his dedication to getting the printing right, and to Till Gathmann for the cool typography and design. Special thanks to Daniela Plügge for supporting me throughout the process of writing SEHR, and to the poet Ferdinand Schmatz for being such an amazing mentor.

For more info and to purchase directly from Ritter Verlag, click here.

outerwoman.xyz
Audio work and podcast series
English/German
Cordula Daus with Sebastian Bark, Charlotta Ruth and [M] Dudeck and invited guests

Take out your headphones and tune in!

After months of hard work, and fighting bugs the first five episodes of outerwoman.xyz have finally been released.

Ever thought of leaving your family? Interested in different ways of coming into the world? Enjoy parenting too much? Then this podcast series is for you.

The development of a custom website and audio player came with unforeseen challenges… Special thanks to coder and designer Sophia Msaoubi for allowing me to develop ideas in a work by doing approach!

*Please check out the desktop version of the site for an easier read. Some episodes include translations and transcripts.

Transdisciplinary Workshop
Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Wien

Cordula Daus, Sebastian Bark & Charlotta Ruth
with Anna Dobrosovestnova, Barbara Fischer and Katrin Klebermaß-Schrehof

The German verb ahnen is difficult to translate. It means something like to anticipate, to guess, to suspect, to foreshadow or to forebode. While pointing to a rather dark future – «Ahnung ist dunkle Vorerwartung» (Kant) – it is phonetically reminiscent of the noun Ahnen (ancestors). So there is a sense of not-yet-knowing that stretches all the way back to bodies that have existed before. While a premonition, Ahnung, overcomes a person, more active forms of Ahnen allow for a self-induced poetic state or collective frenzy: «doch sind wir entzückt uns hinein zu ahnen in jene zustände zu ahnen, in welchen die dichtenden gelebt haben» or, «dichtung, eine geahnte füllung der lücken» (von Arnim).

outerwoman invites three scientists from the fields of biology, neonatology, and science and technology studies to participate in an exchange and testing of practices: How can fieldwork and scientific knowledge be combined with forms of fabulation or fictioning (Burrows/O’Sullivan)? What ethical challenges arise? How can we use language-based and performative practices to go to places that we cannot go in scientific research? How can we inhabit other bodies, roles, positionalities? How can we make our practices accessible to non-artists? How can we enable interdisciplinary thinking or even forms of co-creation between art and science?

Drawing on previous interviews related to the future of pregnancy and extracorporeal states, the workshop will focus on three aspects: 1. biological evolution & latency – the bodies of those who lie behind us/before us; 2. neonatology – anticipating the characteristics of those to come; 3. machine-human relations & empathy: understanding the relationships between m/other machine, new bonds. The two-day workshop will include a panel session; a collaborative session generating a synthesis of the panel using a score; a cycle of three practical exercises.

Workshop & Research-based Teaching
Universidad de Granada
Spain

Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja,
Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin and Paula Urbano
in collaboration with Prof. Jaime Mena de Torres
https://writinginpublic.space/

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 our upcoming workshop we will practice explorative writing in public space focusing on how we can position ourselves in shared spaces and reciprocated texts. 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 Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien. Perec observed Place Saint-Sulpice during three days in October 1974. Paying attention to the seemingly insignificant Perec noticed and notated what was 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

with Cordula Daus, Ricarda Denzer, Mariella Greil, and Charlotta Ruth

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!

Workshop
Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth
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’?