The course consists of four interactive workshops featuring a multi-disciplinary team of instructors from the JKU's Institute for Legal Gender Studies, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and a dancer/choreographer from Sri Lanka. The course will introduce students in different majors to the multifaceted aspects of respecting people's rights regarding personal privacy and family life (Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights).

The project aims to raise the students' awareness regarding their everyday rights and encourage them to actively assert these rights when necessary. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights encompasses a range of topics that concern all of us, ranging from respecting gender identity, improving the quality of life for those who have disabilities, and protecting the copyright to one's own photos, to providing protection against cyberbullying, exercising the right to independently determine one's own medical treatment, safeguard mental health, and recognize diverse family relationships and domestic arrangements.

The workshop focuses on learning physical gestures and movement to help the participants experience situations they consider to be highly personal, physically address the legal parameters, and explain the process of law enforcement. We will also incorporate role-play and discussions. By means of physical experiences and visual representation, we aim to convey complex legal and bureaucratic processes to the participants in a more comprehensible manner and easy-to-remember methods. At the end of the workshop, we will choreographically pool all of the aspects together to create a short performance featuring the physical gestures/movements of the various bureaucratic/legal processes and ultimately tell a "personal and intimate" story.

Refreshments will be provided during the workshops (blocked course sessions).

If you are commuting from elsewhere (such as from Vienna), or if you have to pay for an accompanying assistant, please contact us.