Steph Hanna
Steph Hanna is a socially engaged artist from Berlin. She has been working for many years in a situation-specific and process-oriented way in the fields of visual, performative and healing arts.
In 2017, in the book “a depowerment manifesto. artistic attitudes and practices to fairly rebalance the world”, she reflected on how her human-political attitude shapes her artistic practice - and realized that to have a social transformative potential, ideas must be embodied. Since, she has been training in somatic movement pedagogy and offers embodied thinking and reading laboratories in which she freely combines her pluridisciplinary artistic approaches to socio-philosophical issues. Steph Hanna's education includes a BA Theater Design (HKU, NL 2001), an MA Art in Context (UdK Berlin, 2006) as well as trainings in Somatic Movement Pedagogy (2020-22) and in the PranaYoga Method (2023-25).
Ohnmacht und Mitmacht / powerlessness and participation
If violence produces counter-violence, as Foucault states, a conscious renunciation of power could perhaps put an end to the existing relations of exploitation. The only question is, how does this not create a power vacuum that would again be occupied by the greediest and most attention-hungry of humanity? This question inevitably leads to further questions, such as:
(How) can power flow, be equally distributed and held within a group in a socially just way? And this, of course, leads to next questions, such as: How do we listen to our counterparts without prejudice, how do we accept them unconditionally?
Wouldn't this be a basic prerequisite for free and fair interpersonal communication that could lead us to a sea of collective awareness and understanding?
And last but not least, what (else) constitutes a queer consciousness and (how) could this contribute to socially just(er) interaction?
Workshop
10. - 12. Oktober 2025
In a three-day workshop, we will explore these questions and more (your questions!) by reading and discussing selected excerpts from texts (by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaclav Havel, Lynn Margulis, Pauline Oliveiros, Arundhati Roy and Robin Wall Kimmerer, among others), and alternate these mind activities with physical improvisation exercises and somatic movement meditations as an embodied access to our intuitive knowledge.
The texts will be offered in English and / or German. Participants can choose the texts and languages they want to work with. The physical exercises are inclusive and adaptable..
Participation is free of cost.
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