[Workshop]
Movements of Collective (Un)balance
18 November 2025
Commissioned by Feminist AI Lab and ran at the Feminist GenAI Symposium at TU Delft.
I guide this workshop with: A Guide on Data Classification and Annotation
Course Brief
In this artistic research workshop, we explore what lies between standing and having fallen, the unstable and negotiated space where balance becomes a collective act. Drawing from the ongoing inquiry Autonomy of a Fall and its use of the AI fall-detection software, participants are invited to sense, move, and think through thresholds that resist fixed classification, such as control and surrender, autonomy and dependency, care and collapse.
Through shared movement exercises and conversation, we will experiment with reclassifying gestures and states that usually go unnoticed: the trembling, the hesitation, the almost-fall. These micro-movements may echo our shifting relations with technological systems that claim to sustain wellbeing.
Rather than seeking stability, we approach wellbeing as a dynamic and relational practice, a capacity to fall together, to depend, to reorient. The workshop concludes with the creation of a collective dataset, composed of selected movements documented through photographs and video, forming a shared archive of embodied classifications and alternative readings of care within and beyond the loops of AI.
This workshop needs
A relatively safe ground to collectively fall.
Participant outcomes
After experiencing movement exercises and collective falls, the participants grouped up to create their own dataset that lies between control and collapse. Collaborative thinking & making, negotiation, and collective decision-making are embedded in this process.
Subjective labelling, such as ‘flying’, ‘cushioning’, and ‘ teetering’ have been used to classify the movements in between.
I sincerely thank every participant who actively played like a child. For sure, they weren’t afraid of throwing themselves into the mat.
