Location: Corner of Heger Straße and Rolandsmauer
Film projection

Our work begins with the idea of the precarious ensemble: a temporary group of image- and sound-makers collaborating through the RSVP Cycle developed by Anna and Lawrence Halprin. We move between its four elements: Resources, Score, Valuaction, and Performance. We will use them as a flexible framework rather than a fixed order. Resources such as sounds, images, gestures, and locations form the ground from which open scores emerge. These scores serve as invitations to act, guiding movement and decision-making while keeping possibilities open. Through ongoing valuaction (Halprin’s practice of observing, evaluating, and adjusting in real time) we allow each contribution or shift in attention to influence the direction of the work. What we call “performance” is the continuous unfolding of these exchanges: a collective process shaped by the group’s responsiveness and its willingness to stay in motion. In this shifting field, students engage in improvisation and real-time composition, letting performance seep into ordinary spaces and gently disrupt them. We listen to audio topographies: the hum of environments, the resonance of bodies, the friction between public and private rhythms. By drawing on expanded listening practices, we tune ourselves to the subtle politics of place. Images and sounds emerge as responses, questions, hesitations. The ensemble changes shape with each contribution, revealing how small gestures can tilt the balance of a collective.

Sofie Bussé, Ray Hindryckx, Nora Keilig, Susan Smith

⟼ Project supervisor: Prof. Esther Venrooij

• Sektion Section: Campus
• Programm Programme: LUCA | School of Arts