APL Courses

List of APL's courses and seminars in 2025 WS

 

08 October 2025, 15:00–18:00, TanzQuartier Wien (special event: Shaken Grounds – Trembling Bodies)
21 October–16 December 2025, Tuesdays, 10:00–11:30, APL Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (mezzanine)
13 & 20 January 2026, 10:00–11:30;
27 January 2026, 10:00–11:30 (course end)

The course introduces somatic practices that cultivate intuition and body awareness through touch, imagery and applied anatomy. Participants examine habits and expand movement ranges toward integrated, conscious performative actions, relating techniques (e.g., ideokinesis, fascia/myoreflex work, BMC) to concepts such as gravity, space and momentum. Somatic processes are framed as tools for individual and collective artistic research.

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05836/

08 October 2025, 15:00–18:00, TanzQuartier Wien (special event: Shaken Grounds – Trembling Bodies)
21 October–16 December 2025, Tuesdays, 11:45–13:15, APL Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (mezzanine)
13 & 20 January 2026, 11:45–13:15
27 January 2026, 11:45–13:15 (completion)

Practice-led exploration of scores (underscore, improvisation, real-time composition) as dynamic tools that weave aesthetic action, somatic experience and compositional decision-making. Students develop, apply and analyse scores, testing performative processes and learning through collaborative exchange; partial links to the artistic research project “Shaken Grounds.”

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05837/

09 October 2025, 17:30–18:30 (preliminary discussion), APL Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (mezzanine)
16 October–18 December 2025, Thursdays, 17:30–19:00

Starting from Hartmut Rosa’s notion of resonance, improvisation is treated as a social practice of collectively “searching and finding.” The seminar introduces compositional ideas that consider the collective experience choreographically, moving from guided to self-devised techniques to perceive and transform space through performative impulses.

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05695/

14 October 2025–27 January 2026, Tuesdays, 17:00–18:30, APL Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (mezzanine)

The seminar explores the body as space and space as an extended body. How do interactions emerge between us and the places we inhabit, and how can these dynamics be discussed, visualised and used constructively? Participants develop individual performative concepts, exchange feedback in group, and consider presentation formats toward semester’s end.

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S04103/

03 October 2025, 15:00–17:00, APL, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (intro; bring laptop)
10/17/24/31 October 2025, 14:00–17:00
21 & 28 November 2025, 14:00–17:00 (28 Nov: examination)

Composing and performing with audio-visual media in time. Participants build a real-time multimedia environment for embodied interaction, working hands-on with a tailored software library to minimise coding and maximise experimentation (composition, musical structures, dramaturgy, gesture-based performance).

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05420/

weekly Fridays, 10:00–12:00; first session
10 October 2025 (mandatory), Seminar Room 34, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (mezzanine)

Examines contemporary performance as both “labour” and “lab,” where theory and practice move through one another. From Derrida’s deconstruction to Barad’s agential realism, the course rethinks agency away from doxa toward paradox, addressing more-than-human bodies, intra-action, and the political potentials of performance between activism and art; also touches on artistic research as intra-activity between art and research.

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05421/

 

List of further courses and seminars related to performance practices in 2025 WS

 

Institut für Bildende und Mediale Kunst

Digitale Kunst

Ortsbezogene Kunst

Bühnen- und Filmgestaltung

Transmediale Kunst

Institut für Kunstwissenschaften, Kunstpädagogik und Kunstvermittlung

Kunst und Kommunikative Praxis

Institut für Sprachkunst

 

Course Archive within the last Semesters

 

 

28. March 2025, 10:00–13:00 APL-Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (preliminary meeting)
29. March 2025, 10:00–20:00 APL-Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2
30. March 2025, 10:00–20:00 APL-Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2

Performances of Doris Uhlich transcend conventional notions of body, dance and nudity in a subversive way. Central themes are her philosophy of flesh, the body as the epicenter of action and change and the archeology of energy. The artist sees the body as an archive in a constant state of flux in which the own biography and the biography of the world are stored. For her, the skin is a permeable structure, events of a political, social, economic and cultural nature are inscribed. The body is in the world, the world is in the body. We go through the partly self-determined, partly externally determined, complex choreography of our biographies. These topics are the starting point for the joint workshop.

More info & ways to join here:

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05417/

  • On Material Crush: Interaction between human and non-human performers (Asher O’Gorman)

12 March 2025, 10:00–14:00, “APL Angewandte Performance Lab, Georg-Coch Platz, Hochparterre” (preliminary meeting) For further dates please look at the registration link below.

This course focuses on performative interactions that explore the haptic nature of things highlighting the exhilarating experience of the body when given over to working with real stuff. Within a fantastic realm we open out the personal, relational, and metaphysical manner in which we engage with objects and each other. We touch upon the philosophy of Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) and physically demonstrate this theory. OOO asserts a radical and imaginative realism that claims that things do exist beyond the purview of human conception. The course is grounded in practical and physical based practice employing visual art and choreographic perspectives and utilising compositional/generative tools such as; movement improvisation, object and material experimentation and compositional tools i.e tempo, rhythm, space, texture etc.

More info & ways to join here:

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05416/

02 May 2025, 14:00–16:00 Angewandte Performance Laboratory, postsparkasse, Georg Coch Platz 2 (preliminary meeting) For further dates please look at the registration link below.

In this course, you’ll learn how to interactively connect a performer’s body to visuals and sounds. Instead of using knobs, buttons, and staring at screens, you’ll perform with audio and visuals through dynamic bodily actions. We’ll focus on simple and effective ways to harness embodied interactivity to control media in real-time using simple cameras and microphones to interpret body movements and voice. The seminar is hands-on; you’ll work on your laptop and also have opportunities to move and engage with the interactive tools we create. Participants will receive a tailored library of software modules specifically designed for this seminar. This will minimize programming time and maximize your experimentation with the technology.

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05420/

More info & ways to join here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05418/

  • Performance und Raum (Peter Kozek in Zusammenarbeit mit Timohy Nouzak)

04 March 2025, 17:00–19:00 (preliminary meeting) For further dates please look at the registration link below.

Performative Practice: Dialogue between Repetition and Creative Redefinition

In this course, we will experimentally examine the concepts of Reenactment, Instruction and Score and as artistic strategies in contemporary performance art. Based on various reference examples, we will together strive for the attempt to reinterpret past performances and place them in an altered temporal and spatial context within the framework of social happenings.

More info & ways to join here:

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S04103/

13. March from 11:00-16:00 (preliminary meeting) For further dates please look at the registration link below.

The Greek word soma means the living body referring to the core of structure and function. An introduction to a range of body mind concepts and somatic practices will activate intuition and sensitivity of the body. Using perception as a tool for empirical observation, directed touch and imagery create an awareness of physical habits and expand the radius of movement responses towards articulate, differentiated and integrated performative actions, having their source in cultivating an openness within the body.

Introduction and practice of a selection of somatic techniques (applied anatomy, ideokinesis, meridian stretching, fascial unwinding, myoreflex work and body-mind-centering as well as various improvisation techniques) and basic somatic understanding (gravity, horizontality, momentum, space, dynamics), performing and developing scores (underscore, improvisation, real time composition) lay the ground for individual and collective experiments. The aim of the module is to practice a discourse with the physical self, probing a sense of embodiment of aesthetic, social and political contexts through “narrations of the body” as performative realisations and conceptual-compositional reflections.

More info & ways to join here:

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S04462/

07 March 2025, 10:00–12:00 (preliminary meeting) For further dates please look at the registration link below.

Unser be-coming together wie das Zusammentreffen differenter Gründe und Begründungen in zeitgenössischer Performancetheorie und -praxis – weg von der Doxa hin zum Paradox – stellen die Problematik dieser Lehrveranstaltung dar. Untersucht wird – entlang der Analyse von künstlerischen und theoretischen Arbeiten – die Spezifik von Performance als labor und lab, als Arbeits- und Forschungspraxis zugleich. Neben Performancetheorie bietet der Kurs auch Feedback zu performativen Einzelprojekten der Studierenden an. Die Kursteilnehmer:innen können einzeln oder als Gruppe performative Entwürfe vorschlagen, vom Feedback der Kursleiterin und der ganzen Gruppe begleitet. Diese performativen Arbeiten können dann im Rahmen des Angewandte Festivals gezeigt werden.

More info & ways to join here:

https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05421/