Workshop with Benjamin Richter

TLO- The Language of Objects is an intensive workshop with Benjamin Richter part of UpDown Circus Festival.

The TLO workshop has left a strong trace in the contemporary circus world, and is based on a structured checklist of questions and impulses designed to sensitise humans to the presences, agencies and affordances of objects. Initially a personal creation method, it encompasses many aspects of Benjamin's choreographic and performance philosophy. Rooted in Graham Harman's Object-Oriented-Ontology, J.J. Gibson's Theory of Affordances, and Benjamin's research into the Bauhaus and post-modernism, TLO enables others to not only develop their own object-oriented sensitivity, but to understand more about their own creative processes.

Benjamin has taught at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), the Ècole Supérieur des Arts du Cirque (ESAC), as well as at other performing arts universities and institutions and in independent workshops all over Europe.

Find out more about the Benjamin Richter Company HERE

UpDown Circus Festival is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

This intensive workshop is supported by Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Irish Street Arts Circus & Spectacle (ISACS), the National Circus Festival of Ireland, and the Goethe-Institut Irland.