The workshop "Black Ritual and Durational Action" starts in April, in which 15 Folkwang students from various disciplines will work with the artist in a three-week intensive course and produce their own performances. With his spectacular durational performances, the artist also attracted international attention in the context of the last Venice Biennale.
The students will have the opportunity to learn about Greenberg's principles and practices in the field of performance art and to develop individual durational performances, according to a statement. Miles Greenberg (born 1997, Canada) focuses on the relationship between the body and space in his artistic work. With this approach, he creates large-scale, sensorily immersive, and site-specific environments that he activates through long durational performances. He uses the body as sculptural material. Strict and ritualistic in his methodology, he places particular emphasis on aspects such as slowness and the decay of form.
The performances are recorded live and serve as a basis for video works and sculptures. Apart from formal educational institutions, he has worked under the mentorship of choreographer and dancer Édouard Lock, theater director and artist Robert Wilson, and performance artist Marina Abramović. He was also an artist in residence at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
