Pedro Risse
THE FUTURE IS RELATIONAL: embodying relationality through co-created performances
Intensive Workshop, English/Deutsch, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Saturdays/Sundays, 13./14.6., 10-18 h, 27./28.6., 10-18 h resp. 14-19 h
Fasanenstr. 1B, room 013

Registration on Moodle starts on 9.4.2026:https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=3053
Enrollment Key: relational

Infosession: Wednesday, 23.4.2026, 10 h: https://uni-erfurt.webex.com/meet/pedro.dos_santos_risse

In this workshop we will combine improvisation frameworks with a relational approach to ecological thinking. We will practice to recognize the „patterns which connect“. And that when we describe a thing, we describe ourrelationship with it. Perception is an act of participation in a network of relationships. We will investigate relationality through cybernetics, game theory and contemporary native-american thinkers. We will improvise together, combining movement, audiovisual, text, sound. By the end of the seminar we will share an improvisation-based multimedia performance with an audience in a Berlin art/dance space.

It is not about creating a performance „about“ ecology or relationality, but to practice co-creation which is based on interdependence and relational awareness of patterns. These patterns are affective dynamics that emerge between bodies, space and things and produce a common game language and a shared game ethic without not one of us having priorly defined them. It is about creating a play environment in which rules evolve and roles are not fixed. In which playing conditions can extend infinetely, cycles of life of the game are recognized, and all players can inhabitandmake worldtogether.

References:
Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson, 1979
Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse, 1987
Ancestral Future, Aílton Krenak, 2024
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2022
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, Shawn Wilson, 2008

Fulfilment criteria for ungraded accreditation: Engaging actively in reading and discussing texts, taking part in the improvisation practices and the public showing, Translating improvisation experiences into reflections about living together / ecology. 

Pedro Henrique Risse is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working in the fields of performativity, embodiment, and improvisation. He teaches Performance Art in the art department at the University of Erfurt. Recently, he directed the multimedia performance WARUM TANZEN MÄNNER NICHT, co-produced by LOFFT Theater Leipzig and curated the two-month program THE OUTLINES OF CONTROL: Performance, Partizipation, Wahrnehmung at Galerie Waidspeicher Erfurt. He holds a master’s degree in Art and Media at the UdK Berlin and is a former member of the performance collective gruppe tag and the intercultural association interaction Leipzig.