Teaching period: 25th September – 6th October, 2023

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Michael Portnoy

ECTS: 6

Number of available places for KUNO students: 4

Level: BA

Course description:
Radical Cringe is a 2-week production course where we’ll wallow in the aesthetics of glorious embarrassment, shame and bad taste. Oversharing, overacting and over-being, we’ll watch each other through our fingers as we search for a radical agency in being free from self-awareness. In an era where the pressures of self presentation are almost paralyzing, and conversely, where cringe culture has become a veritable force in the entertain-ment industry, we’ll engage cringe as a joyous escape valve. If the feeling of cringe is a warning that one has violated some social normand strayed from the cultural path, is it not also precisely a territory we should seek out as artists, a place where authenticity, vulnerability, otherness and innovation overlap. The working process will involve daily active sessions borrowing techniques from devised theatre, improvisation, performance art and contemporary dance, combined with discussion. Mixing solo and group production, we'll create a performance, which will be presented at the end of the course.

Application deadline: 10th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply by sending a motivation letter to Maj Hasager:
maj.hasager@khm.lu.se Please state the course name “Radical Cringe” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact maj.hasager@khm.lu.se