WORKSHARING: Point of touch: Practices of Empathy / ‘In discrepancy and consonance’
Schedule
Thu Oct 02 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Thoravej 29, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, SF
At this WORKSHARING we invite you to get an insight into Minar's artistic research Point of touch: Practices of Empathy and Lindemann's research ‘In discrepancy and consonance’.POINT OF TOUCH: PRACTICES OF EMPATHY. With this research Alica minar explores empathy as an embodied and relational practice, rather than an innate trait. Through somatic inquiry, authentic movement, and choreographic experimentation, the project investigates empathy as a cultivated redirection of attention. Skin is treated as a porous threshold — a tactile and perceptual border where self meets other. Drawing from phenomenology, affect theory, and ethics of care, the research examines empathy’s contradictions, including empathic bias and compassion fatigue, while proposing presence and witnessing as political gestures.
Practices such as touch-based improvisation and guided encounters become tools for tuning perception and navigating shared vulnerability. The work does not seek resolution but creates conditions for BEING-WITH — for staying open, affected, and attentive.
‘IN DISCREPANCY AND CONSONANCE’ is a research based on the voice and movement of 1 solo performer. With the research Kirstine Lindemann discusses self versus other, belonging versus disconnection, while exploring the potential in discrepancy and consonance between gesture, sound, audience and space. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir and her book, The second sex, questions of othering and identity form the core while starting from the very start: The voice and the body in the room.
How can voice and gesture relate to each other, to the room and to an audience? Can this relation disintegrate? Which possibilities do we find in the gaps of discrepancy?
The research is based on workshops made in collaboration with classical singer and performer, Hanne Marie le Fevre.
THE ARTISTS
During their residency Alica Minar and Kirstine Lindemann, share studio with both each other and choreographer and dancer Antoinette Helbing. They have chosen each other and hope that working side by side can contribute with inspiration to their individual work.
Shared in their artistic practices is a research into empathy, physicality, and choreographic presence. With a distinct angle, they each approach a embodied experience: Lindemann through sonic tactility and spatial listening, Helbing through sensory empathy and somatic intelligence, and Minar with attention to how skin functions as a perceptual threshold. What emerges when their artistic languages meet — in discomfort, in listening, in attunement — and how can these crossings inform methods?
Read more about the artists at www.hautscene.dk
TICKETS
Participation is free, but please reserve your ticket as seating is limited.
THE RESIDENCY
This WORKSHARING is the culmination of 2 artists' 4-week IN DEPTH residency at HAUT.
IN DEPTH is HAUT's 4-week residency that gives experienced performing artists time to immerse themselves in their own artistic practice.
