Diffractive Dialogues is a three-day immersive gathering where three selected artists are invited to exchange practices, ideas, and gestures in a shared space of ongoing inquiry. This format is inspired by Karen Barad’s concept of diffractive engagement - as a way to think about how artistic material shifts as it moves through different perspectives, bodies, and sensibilities.

The central questions guiding this format are:

What if giving feedback became an act of "reading through"—

diffracting and filtering artistic material through one's own practice? 

How would this approach transform the feedback process?

Diffractive Dialogues is a format born in 2022 - designed to foster discussions around and through performative, somatic, and artistic practices.

At each encounter, we welcome and value the contributions of all peer-professionals committed to exploring the embodied experience and its potential to generate knowledge and foster critical discourse.

STRUCTURE

Each Diffractive Dialogues is led by a team of three artists — two teaching artists and one documenting artist — whose exchange is open to a wider group of participating professionals.

Duration: 3 consecutive days
Daily schedule: 5 hours per day
Activities include: practice-sharing sessions, communal meals, and informal exchanges.

Day 1

Facilitator A

Practice sharing (2 hrs)

Facilitator B 

Diffractive Dialogues (1.5 hrs)

Day 2

Facilitator B

Practice sharing (2 hrs)

Facilitator A

Diffractive Dialogues (1.5 hrs)

Day 3

Facilitators A & B

Co-facilitated practice session

Facilitator C

Wrap-up session of the three-day event

PAST EVENTS

Diffractive Dialogues @Im_Flieger - March 2025  

Diffractive Dialogues @eindorf - October 2024