Wobbles

Wobbles is an artistic research project conducted by Omer Keinan during the New Performative Practices Master's program at Stockholm University of the Arts. This project unfolds through three primary momenta: a publication, an artistic research methodology, and two research-creation processes. The publication “Wobbles” includes a series of essays and poems that articulate the concepts of wobble technique: a know-how for grappling with the intensities of relationality as rife with instability and potentiality. And wobbling practices, tools for bringing that which had been rendered static and fixed into dynamism and transformation. This publication includes a range of excerpts from the various workshops and literature encountered through the NPP studies, a snapshot of a body at the end of a stretch. The artsitic research methodology “A Performance Practice Interface” experiments with the study, circulation, and craft of forms-of-practice (exercises, activities, scores, experimental systems) as particularly potent conveyers of experience and knowledge. This methodology is developed through two primary activities: Shop Talk, a studio conversation format which seeks to document forms in their situated thickness; and Blue Sky, a dance-based gathering format which invites practitioners to open their forms to collective play. The research-creation processes “Telos” and “Knots” practice various methods for collapsing beyond order and logic into discord and dysregulation, from the sacred into the profane. Playing between affirmation and negation, constitution and destitution – beckoning conflict and mischief through spicy wobbling.