Symposium for Dance and other Contemporary Practices
Opening: July 27, 5pm
Symposium: 28 - 31, 2026 @ The Hall
Fractalising Touch is the final instalment in a four-year-long arch dedicated to exploring a range of socio-political, professional, artistic, and therapeutic aspects of touch at the intersection of art, academia, and activism. From topography of touch (“the privilege of partial perspective”), through hospitality (“how to encounter accountability with grace”), and integration (“what is the difference between theory and practice), in its final year the symposium turns its soft focus to theinterstitial, the state of fluid-in-between.
The interstitial is revealing itself to be about a deeply relational, and deeply responsive way of being in the world. Curators Deirdre Morris, Sylvia Scheidl, and pavleheidler engage with embodied practitioners working across genres to explore themes commonly associated with the interstitial; tensegrity, fascia, emergence, relationality, response-ability, fluid consciousness, fractalization – all of which evidence characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems.
Contributing to this year’s symposium are Olive Bieringa, Ella Hillström, Stéphanie Janaina, Kerstin Kussmaul, Satu Palokangas, Amaara Raheem, Tia Reihana, and Zrinka Šimičić.
Being a practice-based symposium, the LACE Symposium doesn’t simply invite artist-researchers to describe their work or report on their discoveries. At LACE artist-researchers engage everybody in an experiment and disseminate their observation through action.
LACE Symposium takes place annually at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.
Programme and Registration: https://www.impulstanz.com/en/symposia/
Detailed programme: www.lacesymposium.com
The LACE Symposium is part of INTERLACE: Art and Action in Contemporary Dance Education, a project funded by the European Union, Erasmus+.
