a Wing that was a Hand 🪽
XR-Workshop with Dancer Viviana Defazio, and Transdisciplinary Artists Pascal Marcel Dreier & Paula Strunden
Thursday 18.09.25 (10-18h) und 19.09.25 (10-15h) @ Multispecies Studio, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Heumarkt 14, 50667 Köln
Open to students from all disciplines. To register, please send an email with your cv and short motivation to multispecies [at] khm.de
In this workshop we explore a bird’s lived experience through our bodies as well as extended realities. More info coming soon.
This workshop forms part of the artistic research project "A Wing That Was a Hand" by Pascal Marcel Dreier and Paula Strunden, developed during Strunden's media art fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The project explores the (im)possibility of becoming-bird, creating immersive experiences that deepen our understanding of birds, ourselves as humans, and extended reality (XR) technologies.
Viviana Defazio is a freelance dancer, choreographer, workshop facilitator, Shiatsu practitioner, and resides in Berlin. After completing her studies at Folkwang University, she worked and toured with Johannes Wieland, Anna Konjetzky, Romeo Castellucci, Jo Parkes, Stella Geppert, and Sasha Waltz. As a choreographer, she realizes participatory dance projects with children, teenagers, and adults, including intergenerational contexts at the Humboldt Forum, Bode Museum, and Feld-Theater in Berlin. Currently, she is working with Isabelle Schad as a dancer and co-choreographer for her piece "The Shift of Focus" and other new productions. Website︎︎︎
Pascal Marcel Dreier (Cologne, Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher with a focus on human-animal relationships. Pascal studied Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as Media, Design, and Fine Art in Cologne, Vienna, and Schwäbisch Gmünd. His artistic-research practice includes ethnographic fieldwork as well as working with game engines, video games, 3D scanning and printing. Exhibitions include at Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Museum Brot und Kunst Ulm, Next Level Festival for Games, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen. Pascal is currently assistant professor of Multispecies Storytelling at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
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Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary VR artist with a background in architecture. She studied in Vienna, Paris and London and worked at Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. As the founder of XR Atlas, an interdisciplinary online platform, Paula advocates alternative historiographies of virtual technologies.
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Gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen als Medienkunstfellow.
