Design: Basics09
Dez 17, 2025
»Sound & Body« – A Presentation with Rachel Gill
in cooperation wth ABK Stuttgart
Rachel Gill, »The Eight Positions or Could This Go on Forever?«, 2024. Performer: Chelsea Hecht. Photo: Anna Witenberg.
Presentation & Showcase
of the Sound & Body seminar at the ABK Stuttgart
Rachel Gill, in collaboration with the students of the ABK Stuttgart, present process-based improvisations from the Sound & Body seminar.
The presentation explores improvisation as a practice of devotional presence, yielding to what is unknowable as a generative space of encounter across the ambiguous terrain of movement. The practice acts as a porous record, where material moves from bodies to voices to image and back again, a feedback loop born of its own ephemerality.
A fanzine produced alongside the course serves as a poetic archive of the group’s process and as a resource for others to begin their own improvisation practice.
Rachel Gill is a dancer and amateur filmmaker based in New York/USA. Her practice highlights the relational possibilities of performance and analog film, favoring physically demanding improvisation, slowness and tactility, and forms that resist immediate legibility. Rachel Gill is a fellow in cooperation with the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.
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