The Symposium form/RELAY/content brings artistic and scientific contributions and formats on artistic material in music and dance into dialogue. With performances, lectures, dance-based and sound-based formats, feed forward and feedback moments as well as talks, the symposium negotiates the theme(s) form, relay and content from the perspective of dance and music, inviting research-based contributions as well as artistic practices.

The symposium is part of the three-years EU-funded research project „RELAY – Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance“, supported by the ERASMUS+ programme „Cooperation Partnerships“.

The Breath Art Project
Maribeth Diggle
Workshop, Studio 3
Until now, the role of breath as a central part of the performative and
interpretative act has been largely under analysed, treated more as uti-
litarian, and lacks definition as an essential form of communication and
tool to discover and embody authentic expression. This in an era of the
recent COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd by law enfor-
cement in the United States, and the air quality control index indicating
breathable and non- breathable indoor and outdoor air according to the
particle pollution of our zip codes causing millions of premature deaths.
The Breath Art project investigates how breath can be identified and stu-
died as a primary actor in practices of dynamic physical expression by defining breath‘s diverse agency in bodies and physical practice, not exclusively from a therapeutic point of view, but from an expressive, performative, and creative perspective in connection with newly defined breath cultures. It will do so by analysing what Maribeth Diggle calls dynamic breath output (the multiple characteristics in which breath produces a form of expression), which does not seek to standardise one specific output or result. The goal will be to design a unique and personalised methodology which can update performance practice through the wide medium of breath.