de

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).

Intermission 09. - 12.10.2025

Ohnmacht und Mitmacht/
powerlessness and participation

Workshop

Friday,  10.10.2025

2 hours in the evening (ex. 18-20 / 19-21 h)


Saturday 11.10. + Sunday 12.10.2025

Each 3 hours (ex 11-14 h)

Sign up for free and more info at:
sh(at)stephaniehanna.de
Max. 12 People


How can power be distributed and exercised in a socially just manner within a group? 

How can we prevent a power vacuum from arising that would once again be filled by the most greedy and attention-seeking members of humanity? 


In a three-day workshop, we will explore this question through physical and intellectual inquiry.
To this end, we deepen our body awareness and perceive what is happening within and around us. This simultaneous presence with all our senses is the basis for our collective reading — which gets us moving again. We think in and through motion, as a collective body.


In practice, this inevitably leads to further questions, such as:

How can we hear someone else clearly, without filters of prejudice?

How do we accept other people (and maybe also circumstances) unconditionally? 

How can we behave inclusively and still feel protected at the same time?


Somatic bodywork offers a number of methods to practice this. It can connect us to an intuitive pool of knowledges. All physical exercises can be designed to be inclusive and individually adapted.


For collective exploration, I offer excerpts from texts (e.g. by Michel Foucault, Vaclav Havel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lynn Margulis, Pauline Oliveiros, Arundhati Roy, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, in English and/or German).

You are also welcome to contribute text excerpts that inspire you and fit into this framework. 

Last not least: Please bring comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely
and something to write with and on / in.