Shared Practice as Relational Matter is a series of six practice-sharing sessions initiated and organised by connective matter works / Antoinette Helbing, hosted in collaboration with different co-production partners. The sessions establish a shared space for artists, researchers, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to gather around specific thematic inquiries, offering insight into one another’s practices and modes of working.
The series is conceived as both a personal and collective process. It enables connective matter works / Antoinette Helbing to encounter and learn from practices that closely relate to ongoing artistic research, while simultaneously opening this exchange to a small and growing community of participants who engage with these questions from multiple perspectives. Each session invites an exploration of practices of voice, lamenting, and laughter, situated at the intersection of body, theory, and collective experience.
As continuous knowledge-sharing is integral to the artistic practice of connective matter works, Shared Practice as Relational Matter runs in parallel with the development of choreographic works by Antoinette Helbing. Through workshops, conversations, and other formats of practice exchange, artistic research is shared in process, inviting both professional and non-professional participants directly into ongoing questions and methodologies.
All sessions are free of charge and publicly accessible to both general audiences and the professional performing arts field. This openness aims to frame research as a dialogical process and to foster spaces of shared reflection rather than closed presentation.
In 2026, Shared Practice as Relational Matter turns its focus toward crying and laughter as affective counterparts: mirrors of one another, closely intertwined, and often co-present within embodied and collective experience.
Dates:
2./3. May Shared Practice as Relational Matter – embodied voice flow with Alessio Castellacci (https://www.the-world-is-sound.com/)
10. January Shared Practice as Relational Matter – Introduction into Lamenting with Tuomas Rounakari