Lo Höckner
RESEARCH LAB - IN THE FACE OF THE GAZE
2G event (vaccinated/recovered)
Gloria Höckner (they/them) is inviting to a research lab into the dance studio at K3 - Centre for choreography at Kampnagel Hamburg where they are in residency right now.
The lab aims to research on the gaze and power structures that it can holde. It is part of Gloria’s project Sentimental Bits - This Magic Is In Spite Of Me that they develop within the residency at K3. Sentimental Bits researches on surveillance technology that tracks emotions from facial expressions, and ways of subverting them.
What is the lab about?
The lab addresses the „invisible“ gaze of surveillance technology as a human-machine gaze; Through a movement and body based research we will explore the machine’s gaze as well as the human’s gaze and touch upon questions like: What kind of gaze is directed upon the human body through emotion detection AI (artificial intelligence that tracks emotions)? How can the body emancipate from the (male, western) gaze? How can we direct the gaze and appear in it in our own terms? How can we invite the gaze to touch us or reject it? How can the body become invisible for tracking systems or distract them? In the face of the gaze we can reveille ourselves, we can act out aspects of ourselves that we do not explore if we are alone.
Format
I will provide research frames and questions and will open them up to the participants, so we can together explore them. The structure of the day will also leave space for things that might come up through the group.
Who can participate?
People who already have a movement or performance background (movers, dancers, performing artists f.e.) and are interested in a research situation and/or in the topic.
How to participate: Please send a few sentences about you and your interest to: info@futurecore.de
Lo Höckner
(they/them) is a choreographer, somatic practitioner, and activist. Originally from Vienna, Lo has lived and worked in Hamburg and now Berlin. After experiencing burnout while working as a full-time freelance choreographer, Lo began training in Somatic Experiencing® and Pantarei, and turned increasingly toward activism, trauma resolution work, and embodied change. They are searching for ways to counter isolation and political paralysis by building support systems and relations that are empowering and transformative.
Out of this, they initiated the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle — a bi-weekly gathering in Berlin to practice and learn together. Their work focuses on the connection between the body and social/systemic change, and on countering the experience of disempowerment.
They work in 1:1 sessions, facilitate workshops, practice as a cross-media artist, are engaged in environmental activism and are passionately training in the martial art form Muay Thai. Lo studied Performance Studies and Theatre, Film and Media Science in Hamburg, Vienna and Lyon.
(Status: 2026)