11.4.2024, Thursday 19:00 – 21:00 Uhr
4 Legs Good - Lecture Demonstration by Claire Cunningham
Venue:
- Extended Library der HFBK Hamburg
One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Claire Cunningham, presents a lecture demonstration exploring her artistic practice.
Claire will talk through the development of her career as her focus shifts from explorations about the connection between her crutches and her body, to how her crutches connect her to the world.
She will demonstrate her own unique movement style Quanimacy, illustrating how she is influenced by the use/misuse, study and distortion of her crutches; rejecting formal dance training and techniques created for non-disabled bodies. She will discuss how her work is also influenced by her lived experience of disability and its impact on the way society thinks about knowledge, value, connection and interdependence.
This is a relaxed, informal event where the audience is free to make themselves comfortable. There will be Sign Language Interpretation and a variety of seating options.
The evening will be introduced and hosted by Margarita Tsomou (Professor of Contemporary Theater Practice at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Curator for Theory and Discourse at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin).
Admission is free, registration is not required.
In English with translation in Sign Language. Audio description in spoken English will be included as part of the presentation.
If you need help on site, please contact Stefan Aue before the event: +49(0)40-428989-312, stefan.aue@hfbk.hamburg.de