Sibylle Peters (D) / Kai van Eikels (D)
Why you can’t tickle yourself …
… is a question that research will never be finished with: the attempts to answer it stretch from Aristotle to Darwin to robotics and neuroscience. As children we all carried out one experiment or another. Two-thousand-four-hundred years of tickling research in theory and practice have inevitably produced a range of interesting concepts: about laughing, anticipation and feedback, threat and relief, bodily boundaries and their blurring. The lecture introduces selected tickling concepts and undertakes an experiment itself: are these concepts transferable – to the laughing of the audience in dancing?
The lecture refers among other things to the choreography of Anne Juren.
Sibylle Peters is a project maker between art and science, a cultural studies scholar, performer and manager of the Fundus Theater / Hamburg.