COURSES

 

 

  

Reimagining Fluxus Scores: Performance, Reinterpretation, and Embodiment
with Colette Copeland

This course explores the Fluxus movement’s practice of creating and performing “scores” as a means of experimentation, reinterpretation, and artistic embodiment. Through historical and contemporary perspectives, participants will study key Fluxus artists, adapt and perform scores, and develop their own. Weekly exercises, group discussions, and project development will culminate in a final performance. 

DATES:  May 5-26, 2025; Mondays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Acts of Absurdity: Contemporary Performance Art and the Absurd
with Rosie Gibbens 

This course explores absurdity as a methodology and inspiration for performance art. In addition to historic and contemporary case studies, participants learn about the meaning and purpose of absurdist strategies such as cycles and repetitions, nonsensical language or imagery, humour and slapstick, or unconventional combinations of bodies and objects and discover how they can employ absurdism for their own purpose. 

DATES: May 13-June 3, 2025; Tuesdays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Strange Strangers: Performing with Nonhuman Bodies 
with Verena Stenke (VestAndPage)

Following recent artistic and scholarly inquiries into possibilities of human and nonhuman collaborations, this course explores matter and species as active artistic partners in performance-making. Drawing on feminist, posthuman and Indigenous approaches, this course uses practical exercises and critical reflection to generate different understandings of the material world and our ecological entanglements 

DATES:  June 2-23, 2025; Mondays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Body of Document: Towards an cross-disciplinary Performance Documentation Practice 
with Fenia Kotsopoulou

This practice-based workshop explores performance documentation through feminist-queer lenses, challenging dominant approaches. Participants experiment with interdisciplinary methods, reflecting on memory, ethics, and activation of archives. Through critical engagement and creative tasks, they develop their dynamic "body of document"  whilst questioning and reimagining documentation beyond mere preservation and representation.

DATES:  June 10-July 1, 2025; Tuesdays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Performance art: from idea to execution 
with Marta Jovanović

Drawing from a variety of theories, exercises, and interdisciplinary practice, this course guides students through the creative process of developing of a live performance art piece. In the process, participants practice how to think critically about performance art and find their unique way of expression.

DATES: October 6-27, 2025; Mondays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Up to and Beyond my Limits: Transgression in Performance Art
with Marta Jovanović and Anja Foerschner

This course focuses on an exploration of transgression in performance art. Through theory, discussion of case studies and optional practical exercises, participants are introduced to modes of transgression but – even more importantly – are guided to develop an informed understanding of what transgression – bodily, socially, culturally – means and the political magnitude it can carry.

DATES: November 3-24, 2025; Mondays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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Being in Place
with Marilyn Arsem

This course is focused on creating public actions. Participants are asked to consider their immediate neighborhoods as a place to re-embody their art making in ways that are responsive to and integrated with the natural world and the community around them. Through practical exercises and readings, they will be prompted to think about different modes of being in public, considering the complications of making art in and from a place that is familiar.

DATES: November 18-December 16, 2025; Tuesdays 6-8PM CET

Fee: EUR 175

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If you are not able to attend the live sessions of our courses due to scheduling conflicts or time difference, you can also participate in our courses remotely, on your own schedule. All of the live sessions are being recorded and made available, together with the course material, in the ECC Performance Art Workroom, a virtual repository that participants have access to.  

 


"Thank you ECC Performance Art for the wonderful courses! All of the tutors are excellent and generous and skilled and it has been fantastic to participate in them. Thank you for all the organization and quick replies to queries and also for the promotion of our work!" (Jojo Taylor, UK)