LEARNING STUDIOS Vienna
2023 – 2026
In June 2024, a special Learning Studio took place in combination with a Sensing Workshop, bringing together Zun Ei Phyu, Oksana Lemishka, and Umyma El-Jelede. While their stories are shaped by shared experiences of disruption, each woman brings a distinct cultural background and perspective. Drawing from their personal histories, the session focused on the sudden collapse of political, social, ecological, and economic systems – and the effects these breakdowns have on one’s own psychological and physical system.
Together, the group explored tools that can strengthen resilience and support healing in response to individual and collective emotional experiences. Through open dialogue and sensory exercises, key elements emerged that support grounding and calm: sensory stimuli such as scent, as well as the combination of meditation and haptic perception.
These insights played a vital role in shaping the development of multisensory scenographic elements.
Furthermore, over the years (2023 – ongoing) , numerous learning studios have taken place in Vienna, involving affiliated musicians, scenographers, systems scientists, cultural managers, economists, performance artists, sociologists, conceptual artists, innovation scientists and medical professionals like Umyma Eljelede, Doris Wilhelmer, Zun Ei Phyu, Tanja Beer, Anita Lung, Mara Niang, Juliana Espana Keller, Maya Galimidi, Mine Kucuk, Lucie Strecker, Ulrich Gottlieb, Anna-Maria Irgang, Alexandra Graupner, Taras Komisaruk, Claus Seibt, Stefan Blachfellner, Felix Tretter, Oksana Lemishka and Bernhard Fleischmann.
These Learning Studios have also served as a foundation, guidance and field for feedback, resonance and reflection for the scenographic studies, performances, sound works, etc., which you can discover in the LIVING section.
LEARNING STUDIOS
As part of SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS, the learning studios bring together various artists and scientists with their diverse expertise, experiences and perspectives. In confidential and relaxed atmospheres, they exchange questions and ideas and develop sensory approaches, workshop concepts, and acoustic, olfactory and haptic artworks to create multisensory scenographies for systems awareness.
In the Learning Studios, sensory and body-oriented practices encourage participants to develop and test scenographic and performative elements that make an understanding of living systems physically and emotionally tangible. The Learning Studios take place in a variety of settings – from urban spaces to remote natural landscapes, often in close collaboration with local communities and external experts.
These are collaborative, respectful and practice-oriented spaces, based on the conviction that knowledge and new insights grow through diversity and dialogue, sensual experience and the exchange of perceptions and thoughts.
