With the first appointment of the outstanding performance artist Marina Abramovic to the Pina
Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts the focus in the 2023-23 academic
year was placed on transdisciplinarity artistic daring and social awareness. The project
supervised by Abramovic entitled "Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL)" was
realised in a class put together by her in which she brought together over 20 students from
the fields of music (classical and jazz instrumental vocal and composition) dance design
photography (physical) theatre and directing. The students developed individual or collective
concepts for performances and learnt how to develop a long-term performative work form in an
experience-based process. In a workshop entitled "Cleaning the House" which was organised
according to a method developed by Marina Abramovic method developed by Marina Abramovic the
students developed a sense of the presence required in performances including the exploration
of their individual physical and mental limits. The outstanding performance artist Marina
Abramovic was the first holder of the new Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University
of the Arts in Essen in 2022 23. She focused on transdisciplinarity artistic daring and social
awareness. In her Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL) Abramovic brought
together over twenty students from the fields of music dance design photography (physical)
theater and directing. Over two semesters they realized artistic-performative projects that
dealt with agency resilience and body awareness and explored physical and mental boundaries.
