A b o u t O R Y X :
Oryx is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance artist, movement practitioner, researcher, archivist, and writer. Oryx’s artistic work spans contemporary dance; butoh; immersive theatre and acting; durational performance and installation art.
They investigate the embodiment of cultural histories, queer theory, gender and class politics, and psycho-somatics. Their work tends towards the political and philosophical: using speculative world building mechanisms and conceptual or poetic writing to postulate and structure their practices. Through their Literature and Art History studies, and later their various movement and dance studies, they became interested in the intersections of critical theory, movement, and bodywork, and the means by which movement and consciously modified experiences through the body can resignify socially encoded experiences of the body, intimacy, self concept, and affect.
Oryx works as a freelance researcher, archivist, educator, and in galleries, as well as a performer. They host workshops and facilitate spaces, they have experience curating and producing events largely in independent scenes, such as experimental music, experimental short film, and in art contemporary and modern galleries. Their university studies revolved around the history of science through cultural artifacts; neurology, psychology, and philosophy of mind applied to narrative theory; and the analysis of cultural movements through literary and object based artifacts.
Their further research topics included the cultural history of sexuality within the museum context and the private erotic art collection of Naomi Wilzig, conducted with the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami and Humboldt Universität; to the practice, documentation and institutionalisation of performance art with the Guggenheim in Venice; and methodologies of archiving the lives and histories of children during wartime, through children’s voices, drawings, games, and documents as well as adult retrospective accounts, as in independent research projects for documentary film. They are dedicated to the preservation of many various cultural histories, whether through historical document, artistic artifact, or through bodily reinterpretation and transformation.
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