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LAB<\/mark> – The Transparent Body<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I explore through embodied practice<\/mark> how physicality is connected to image-making<\/mark>. Therefore, my creations and teaching content move between performative and visual art, from a need to approach the human figure from a different perspective: a difference of acting in or about physicality<\/mark>. This area of work stimulates each other and constantly seeks new forms and relationships. This culminates in a broad spectrum of outcomes or interventions within different media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across all disciplines, my practice is characterized by a sustained rethinking of how the human body is involved in the works. I explore intimacy as a practice of pursuing honest physicality<\/mark> within the arts. Intimate connections do not come about quickly and in numbers. Therefore, my artistry is based on a trust-building methodology<\/mark> of respectful and reciprocal encounters with the people I work with. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Why<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For me, bodily awareness is the key underlying my own working method, that of the so-called Transparent Body. The Transparent body<\/em><\/mark> is my embodied understanding of a person’s most pure and porous physical presence. My priority as a teacher in higher art education, as a researcher in the arts and as a maker is always to create a working biotope<\/mark> in which I can guide those I work with to come to their most available bodily state of pure, sensory receptivity. This allows the performer to give pure attention to what is – being in the moment<\/mark> stripped of outside influences<\/em>, and occupying space in the creation process\/image in all its authenticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practice of Bodily Awareness, combined with my embodied knowledge as an actor (I graduated as an actor from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2007), form the denominator within my artistic practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I think the effect of Bodily Awareness is difficult to generalise because it reveals different things about one’s own anatomical body, physicality and emotional being for everyone who participates in it. The ongoing process of becoming more physically aware starts and unfolds from the inside out. This means that the person’s personal inner world in the here and now determines the experience of the process. As a human being, you work from your personal inner world, thus connecting with the outer world. Through bodily awareness, certain aspects of physicality come together that for me formulate substantive conditions and properties of authentic embodiment: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, the inner world exists in and from the artistic anatomy; the skeleto-muscular system, the inner space planes, the way skeleton and muscles connect (biotrensegrity and connective tissue), how to use your muscles and tonus correctly (eutonia), what role breathing plays in making space inside. These ingredients of artistic anatomy shape and lead to a concrete and all-encompassing body practice. After all, the body addresses a dynamic system in movement(s). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About Karel Tuytschaever<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Karel Tuytschaever (\u00b01985, Belgium) works as an actor,<\/strong> as a teacher<\/strong> in higher art education and as a researcher<\/strong> in the arts, as well as creating<\/strong> his own hybrid work. His fascination with physical presence within art plays a common key role in these four cornerstones of his artistic practice. For him, the cross-pollination that these four different approaches offer him in terms of physicality and embodiment is vital. Together, they form the unique heartbeat of his artistic development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karel<\/strong> obtained a master’s degree in acting<\/strong> from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2007, as one of the last classes under the guidance of Dora van der Groen<\/a>. To date, he works as a freelance performer<\/strong> for theatre, film and television series. You can also hear him in voice-over work for TV, radio and museums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2008, he teaches in the Bachelor’s programmes Drama<\/strong> (Physical Awareness) and Contemporary Dance (Drama) at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp<\/a> \/ AP Hogeschool He is a member of the dance training committee and the student mentoring team. He is regularly asked as a coach and gives workshops and master classes organised by theatre studio Nest, OPENDOEK, University of Antwerp, deDansPunt, Let’s Go Urban Academy, scenography course KASKA, Zuidpool, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, De Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten & Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n