Performance lab Urban Bodies
Since 2009, the Eruptions Method has offered a playful approach to engaging with public space. It enables people of all ages and body types — with or without prior experience — to quickly explore new ways of relating to their surroundings: to architecture, objects, passers-by, and the social dynamics of the city.
At the heart of the lab is the experience of moving through public space in a non-everyday way. Participants explore what it means to move together as a cohesive body, in contrast to the individualism that often dominates urban life. Rather than flowing along with the daily rush, they pause, shift attention, and create personal, unexpected actions or dances — opening up alternative ways of inhabiting and experiencing public space.
From the Eruptions Method, performative walks can also emerge, in which audiences move alongside the performers and directly experience the tensions and interactions between bodies and the urban environment.
As Eruptions investigates both conscious and unconscious structures that shape bodily behavior in public space, collective reflection is an essential part of the process — shared through conversation, tea, and cookies.
