I originally wanted to bring my sewing machine to the LAB to work on a costume, but since it's raining I don't feel very comfortable to transport it. I would propose that I work at home in the morning and join you via zoom and in the afternoon I will have finished the parts I need the sewing machine for and join you in person.

I aim to work on a performance project started in the context of another seminar (Switch on the light and listen); the idea is to develop an audiovisual improvisation setting, in collaboration with musicians. This performance would be presented in the context of the Lange Nacht. In parallel, I would like to work on some text I started recently; maybe - hopefully - those two things will come together in some way.

A series of factors determine our actions in work processes. The lab should enable to take into account which basic conditions, spatial atmospheres, personal constellations or individual moods are the most important factors for the success of a project. To promote one’s own action, but also which skills, knowledge, procedures or rules that may be necessary – or even obstructive – for this. For example, how does the environment influence the work process? What role does the scenography play in this, and how does the working space differ from the performance space? What are the mental spaces that are created, which narrative will be revealed? How important are disturbances or intuitive settlements?

In transdisciplinary arts, the work processes are just as different as their results. Whether alone or in exchange with others, what is essential are the actors and the place from which thought and practice are carried out. The knowledge brought in and individual experiences influence the procedures as well as the techniques used. It is therefore necessary to ask how do we orient and navigate through the multitude of factors and how do we create a frame of reference through our actions.
The constellation of the Lab also allows us to relate these questions, materials as well as the resulting sketches, approaches, intermediate results or experiments to each other, whether by looking over each other's backs, by bringing ideas and skills into the work of the others or use it mutually. This way and to this end, we will develop playful, poietic rules that enable a productive working environment.

For emerging artistic or creative works there is the possibility, but not the obligation, to be shown within the framework of existing formats – such as the series of events "Klang und Krach" (24.11.), the "Lange Nacht der Zeitgenössischen Musik" (4.12.) – or in a selforganized presentation in the Kunstraum (12.-15.12.).