Exercises for Ungrounding

Under the name "Exercise for Ungrounding", a workshop has been developed in which artists at the beginning of their careers are invited to look at and try out alternative life practices together.

It’s about relationships – with ourselves, with others, with our work, with nature, and with the environment.
It’s about time, place, profession, and the private spheres.
It’s about money, about all the roles we embody, about care work and balance.
Everything is interconnected, everything is part of us – some by choice, others simply by chance.
Ultimately, it leads us to a fundamental question: "How do we want to live?"

In response to this question, Toni Brell, Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko developed the concept of Ungrounding during their residency: a life practice that consciously engages with structural uncertainties and seeks to create security, creativity, and balance by connecting to elements beyond fixed systems.
Ungrounding invites us to embrace instability not as a threat, but as an opportunity to reimagine how we move, relate, and sustain ourselves in an ever-shifting world.

Building on this practice, we created a participatory workshop where participants are invited to explore their own personal and collective strategies for navigating uncertainty. Through embodied exercises, dialogue, and playful interventions, the workshop opens a space to experience Ungroundin as a living, shared process of resilience and transformation.

workshop, 31.03.2023 – 31.03.2023 , Maschinenhaus Essen
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artist

Toni Brell

Kati Masami Menze

Daria Nazerenko

supported by

Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR