Varsity of Maneuvers is an umbrella for collaborative art projects. It was intiated by the artist Birgit Binder and Jorda Planellas in Bristol (UK) in 2007/2008. Meanwhile Caspar Pauli, Anja Bodanowitz and other artists are collaborating with Birgit to realize performative research and educational projects with specialists from various fields, different interest groups and young people.
The process of moving and researching through movement is key to the projects as a strategic starting point but is also motivation and momentum. A recurring working methodolgy is the confrontation of movement (walking, hiking, canoeing, climbing) with intellectual ‘material’: data, facts, history and cartography. Both are combined to from parts of artistic research processes, performative tours, events through urban and rural spaces and installations.
