This one-day workshop introduces artists to the physical and conceptual demands of durational performance.
Led by Ida Sophia, it focuses on building endurance through the body, time, and using materials that hold personal significance.
Participants will work with methods that extend their capacity to remain present, attentive, and committed over long durations. The day asks for a level of vulnerability and self-trust, while offering a structured environment to test limits safely and with intention. Each artist will bring a material that has transformative qualities, and be taught how to uncover gestures and meaningsful actions, repetitions, and urgencies that can form the basis of a future endurance work. The aim is not only to experience duration, but to begin shaping a practice that can hold it.
About the Artist
Ida Sophia (b. 1989)
Working in sculpture, performance, and video, Ida Sophia’s practice is rooted in autobiographical entry points. Using conceptual materials, ritual and time, she explores themes of regret, longing, forgiveness and the complexity of connection. Ida Sophia’s works employ beauty and sensory elements as a kind of lure, inducing audiences to linger in discomfort, reflection, or revelation in order to elicit physiological and emotional responses. Though secular in intent, her aesthetic draws from religious material culture, creating works that feel both sacred and subversive. Interested in how interpersonal dynamics and unspoken experiences are carried by the body and played out in society, Ida Sophia explores how art can become a site for acknowledging and transforming conditioned experience.
Ida Sophia is an Australian artist currently based between Adelaide and Berlin.