The workshop follows on from the previous Rehearsing Skin meeting and develops performative methods of working with bodily experiences, which are part of the Scratching the Itch project. It will focus on the skin as a space of perception, sensitivity and communication between the body and the environment.
Participants will work with simple tactile situations in which they will try to capture and articulate immediate bodily sensations. Through work with blindfolds, tactile materials and guided attention, we will explore how sensory experiences can be translated into language, image and performative action.
Although Hofmann works mainly in the field of performance, his artistic practice extends into other fields and media and he is also active as a curator. Together with his peers, he slides down museum railings, deforms his face by pressing it against the glass and using it to create a red line between bodies. In the dark, he steals scaffolding nets, active perfumes and exhibits them as Waters of Life and Death, films the skin that becomes skin. As a curator, he invited an amateur duo of ornithologists to a bird song, had a recital in the sauna and a string quartet concert organized, then had a greenhouse built in the gallery garden.
His work has been exhibited, for example, at the MUDAM Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, the Moderna Museet in Malmö and Stockholm, the Schinkel Pavillon and SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, Art in General in New York, at the Brussels Gallery Weekend, the National Gallery in Prague, the National Gallery in Copenhagen in Ostrava and the National Gallery in Copenhagen in York, Denmark Voltaire for Manifesta 11 in Zurich. In 2018, he received the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize.