Upcoming
Mapping Places: Cartography and Choreography in Artistic Research
28 March 2025 | Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan (ICA)
For nearly two weeks, I will be in residence at the NEST Art Residency hosted by ICA Yerevan. My time there will focus on creating a new piece at the edge of Somewhere which will be performed on 29. March [see below]. To conclude my time in residence, I will present Mapping Places, an artist talk regarding my approach to intersections of cartography and choreography and ways in which these overlaps can inform how bodies occupy, interact with, and understand space and place.
I will share my research trajectories and how I have used my stay at NEST Art Residency to apply choreographic methods to explore and create a performative map of Yerevan. The talk will include a video screening of The Approach and the Square followed by a Q&A.
19h00
47 Avet Avetisyan Street, Yerevan
at the edge of Somewhere
29 March 2025 | Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK)
To conclude a research and development project in Yerevan, I will share my sixth investigation of the interconnectedness of choreography and cartography. at the edge of Somewhere is a performance work resulting from time spent using choreographic strategies to explore public spaces of Yerevan, engaging with their architectural, social, and cartographic contexts. The sound score for the piece will be created in collaboration with Liam Byrne.
at the edge of Somewhere is generously hosted by NPAK
17h00
1/3 Buzand Street, Yerevan
Thicker Maps: Methods for (Re)Covering Space
28 Apr - 2 May 2025 | University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
As a guest teacher at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), I will lead a one-week intensive with the first-year students on the MA Solo Dance Authorship (SODA) program. Through the frame of this workshop, we will engage in conversation about understandings of site, differences between space and place, and movement practices that take these ideas into consideration. Relaxed discussion around excerpts of texts focused on location and mapping research will work as the backdrop for the more practical and physical application of walking scores to better understand cognitive mapping and meaning-making in our everyday landscape. Our research explorations will take us through streets and public spaces of Berlin in unexpected ways before we work in the studio to uncover the performative and narrative potentials of place.
Past
Researching Elsewhere: Arbeitsresidenz mit Susanne Soldan
19-23 August 2024 | Elsewhere + Uferstudios, Berlin
For one week, Susanne Soldan and I will apply our continued Elsewhere practice in an exploration of (un)familiar spaces in Berlin, using time in a studio to build and interact with performative maps of place.
Thicker Maps: Methods for (Re)Covering Space
10 Jan 2023 | Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU)
As a guest teacher invited by künstlerische Mitarbeiterin Daniela Ehemann, I will lead the second of a two-part input session with MA students from the urban planning and architecture departments of Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus (BTU). Students will continue investigation and experimentation with different methodologies to find how an architectural space can be made to “speak” and inform movement within it.
Sammlung trifft Forschung
2 Dec 2022 | Online
In the frame of Entwicklung neuer künstlerischer Aufführungsformate in Bibliotheken (Development of new artistic performance formats in libraries), I will be giving a short presentation of and introduction to my site-sensitive work The Twenty-Second Seventh. This workshop, facilitated by Prof. Nik Haffner and Friederike Kramer, is one part of a day-long symposium exploring ways in which objects and documents in collections can be used in the performing arts. Specifically with a focus on the interests of teachers, students, and graduates, the symposium is a collaboration between Der Bundesverband Theatersammlungen im deutschsprachigen Raum (TheSiD) e.V. , Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch (HfS), Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT) Berlin and AG ARCHIV der Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft.
More information, including a link to the day’s program, can be found at https://www.hfs-berlin.de/veranstaltung/sammlung-trifft-forschung/. Details regarding how to register to attend can also be found there.
Thicker Maps: Methods for (Re)Covering Space
11 Nov 2022 | Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (BTU)
As a guest teacher invited by künstlerische Mitarbeiterin Daniela Ehemann, I will lead the first of a two-part input session with MA students from the urban planning and architecture departments of Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus (BTU). We will use our first meeting to work in a repurposed grade school in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. Here, the students will investigate the space and experiment with different methodologies to find how an architectural space can be made to “speak” and inform movement within it.
A follow-up session will take place in early January.
Performing Open Access
13 Dec 2021 | Online
In the frame of an online workshop hosted by the Berlin Open Access Office and the University Library of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), I will share a bit about my artistic research practice and obstacles I have encountered in accessing resources. My short presentation will give insight not just to my topics of interest, but also to ways I have worked toward increasing my understanding of those topics and the challenge of networking within those fields.
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“Together we will look at the ways of publishing, the opportunities, but also the challenges of the publishing process. In two thematic blocks, we would like to facilitate an opportunity for exchange between academics, artistic-scientific practitioners and artists on the topic of Open Access.”
Dance-in-Residence (DiR) Brandenburg
6-12 Jun 2021 | Cottbus (DE)
Beginning 6. June, I will use my time as a visiting artist for DiR to begin looking at ways narrative can emerge from objective locating strategies for the body in space. This residency is part of the research process for the next layer of my new work The Approach and the Square. A work-in-process showing will take place Friday 11.6 at 17H in BLMK/ Dieselkraftwerk (Uferstraße/Am Amtsteich 15, 03046 Cottbus).
https://blicklicht.com/residenz-national-jason-corff/
https://www.blmk.de/programm/jason-corff-the-approach-and-the-square/
DiR is coordinated by fabrik-moves Potsdam and TanzWERKSTATT Cottbus in Brandenburg, Germany.
Beyond UdK_Talks
1 Jun 2021 | Online
On 1. June, I will join a panel of three other alumni of Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) to speak with graduating students of the performing arts about next steps as they work toward solidifying their practice.
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BEYOND UDK_TALKS aims to provide international students who are about to graduate with orientation and support in professionalising their own artistic practice. Which paths lead from studies into the independent scene? How can artistic independence be organised after graduation? Where can young artists get advice and coaching for their projects?
Our guests will speak about obstacles and chances in panel discussions as well as small group discussions and will answer your questions.
Articulations: Theory Into Practice
3-21 May 2021 | University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
For three weeks, I will lead a workshop with students of the BA Tanz, Kontext, Choreographie program of the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT). We will explore methodologies of architecture and map-making as a way to give context to both space and the body’s position within it. Performative maps will be constructed which can be used to deepen understandings of site and movement as well as our responsibility as makers for the (dis)engagement with narrative, agency, and perceptions of place. The sessions will be built around a combination of discussion, practice, and feedback aimed toward finding ways in which seemingly non-performative disciplines can be woven into choreographies.
Workshop with HZT [postponed]
9-20 Nov 2020 | University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
With Nik Haffner, I will co-teach a workshop on site-sensitivity and -specificity for the BA Tanz, Kontext, Choreographie students of Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT). A public showing will mark the end of the workshop. Details TBD.