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WRITING
Recent Publications & Curations



ESSAY (German): Der Dartington-Eros: Von wilden schönen Gärten der Utopie und des  postmodernen Tanzes in: Lettre INTERNATIONAL, EUROPAS KULTURZEITUNG 149, Krieg und Frieden, Juni 2025.

Signs: a Shared Habitat exhibition together with Stuart J Young in February/March 2025: Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes.

Tenuis: a group exhibition together with Jamie Mills and Stuart J Young in October 2024: Plymouth Art Weekender.

Gardens of Culture II: A talk by Eila Goldhahn on 19 November 2024: Dance at Dartington Hall at Poolhaus Blankenese
https://www.poolhaus-blankenese.de/projekte/koinzi-dance-dartington-hall/

Gardens of Culture I: Visionen und Experimente für eine Zukunft, Conference & Exhibition Curation by Eila Goldhahn together with Nele Lipp and Brygida Ochaim. November 2023, Warburg Haus, Hamburg.

INTERVAL Photography and Texts. Shared Habitat at Warburg Haus, Hamburg, November 2023.

A talk by Eila Goldhahn on 17 November 2023: Dartington College of Arts and postmodern dance in the 1980s at Warburg Haus, Hamburg, November 2023.
MoverWitness Interdisciplinarity at Authentic Movement Summit: A Chinese /English Conference Presentation by Eila Goldhahn, 21 May 2023:
“MoverWitness (Goldhahn 2007) is a new term (for the Discipline of Authentic Movement, Adler 2002) and aids to transfer core values and practices usefully to other disciplines.” (Conference Proceedings)



BOOK (English): Reflections on Authentic Movement: Theory, Practice and Arts-led Research (Goldhahn 2022/ Routledge)


Questioning ‘Normality’, a Book Review (Goldhahn & Plevin 2022)
in: Journal for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

Here we are now: The MoverWitness Project Talk and film showing E. Goldhahn in Alongside British Art Show (CAMP, Plymouth, April 2022)

Blue Bed / Blaues Bett an installation in Mnemosphere Project (2021), Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Being seen digitally: exploring macro and micro perspectives in Journal for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy (August 2020)


MoverWitness. Authentic Movement photographic chapter frontispieces by Eila Goldhahn in Essential of Dance Movement Psychotherapy (Payne 2017)

© 2024. Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young. All rights reserved.

Matricycle


The haptic contact with materials leaves imprints  of physical movements in the emerging sculptures. These visible forms are like an echo of the movement: they mirror the fleeting performance with the  material. They touch upon the beginnings of embryonic movement: form and folding of early developmental stages like blastula and gastrula.
Material: steel wire and gauze
Works shown at: Dartington College of Arts UK
Kunsthalle Halle
Kunstverein Basis Frankfurt
Open Studios South Devon U
Development grant for the upcycling of pocket springs with support from the  University Plymouth UK

Durch den körperlichen Kontakt mit Materialien enstehen Abdrücke von Bewegungen in Skulpturen. Diese Formen ähneln einem Echo: sie spiegeln die Begegnung von flüchtigen Ereignissen mit Materialien. Sie deuten auch auf den Anfang von embryonalen Bewegungen an, nämlich die Formung und Faltung in frühen Entwicklungsstadien wie Blastula und Gastrula.              
Material: Stahldraht und Gaze
Dartington College of Arts UK
Kunsthalle Halle
Kunstverein Basis Frankfurt
Open Studios South Devon UK

Entwicklungszuschuss für die Wiederverwertung von Federkern in Designkontexten und Produkten mit freundlicher Unterstützung der University Plymouth UK

Eine Publikation über MATRICYCLE kann hier als PDF heruntergeladen werden. Realisiert mit Unterstützung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. 

Matricycle



                                                                                          

                                                                    

Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Pfaelzer Hof Artists Residencies is located in a small, former, hotel in in the town of Idar-Oberstein, Germany’s jewellery making capital, and set in a  wooded and vine growing area. Shared Habitat have curated exhibitions and artists residencies since 2013 and are members of the international network of ResArtis. Shared Habitat enable international artists’ retreats that support new ideas and work to flourish in a relaxed atmosphere.



Nina Mischler (Switzerland) creating a mural on the terrace.
Jeder Zug zählt (Every move counts) depicts billiard champion Paul Schneider, the former hotelier of Pfaelzer Hof, with balls and globe.

Kelsey Harrison (USA) with her sculptures Pillars of Support, made with architectural timbers from
the underpinning of the Pfaelzer Hof’s historical facade.


Joanna Tam (USA) in her award-winning film Wasenstrasse, conceived of and shot during a Pfaelzer Hof residency on the topic of home and homelessness.



Bruce Asbestos’ striking video works were shown at Pfaelzer Hof Gallery in 2021. Bruce has recently exhibited at Bangkok Bienale (2024) and the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern London (2025).

Lydia Corbett painted a Madonna and Child mural in the entrance lobby of Pfaelzer Hof during her residency in 2013. A second exhibition showed Lydia’s paintings together with Stuart J Young sculptures in 2020.


Member of ResArtis.

Collaborative Photography 

Stuart J Young and Eila Goldhahn create photographic and textual projects with a single authorship.


Interval: Impressions of Dartington in times of change
A commission for Gardens of Culture by KOINZI TANZ, Hamburg and created for Abi Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Germany, November 2023.
(Also exhibited at Birdwood House, Totnes in February 2024.)


© Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023

...beguiling & haunting as a comment on a fading beautiful thing.

Fascinating, insightful commentary on the changing life of Dartington.

Profound, thoughtful with visual acumen.

Excellent, beautiful composition.

Meaningful images of change.

Very, very impressive.



Other photography by Shared Habitat:
All texts, ideas and images © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2023

Archive:
Dartington to Totnes
Foot- and Cyclepath


In 1989 Shared Habitat initiated the Dartington to Totnes Foot- and Cyclepath. Since its completion in 1991 the path has had a unique positive social and ecological impact. Eila Goldhahn negotiated rights of way with Dartington Trust, worked with the national charity SUSTRANS and Totnes and Dartington communities. The path was built with the help of a committed group of volunteers and has become a much loved, safe route for cyclists, walkers and wheelchair users alike, avoiding a dangerous road.
Dartington Trust have a nice website about the path and we hope to receive acknowledgment for our work: https://www.dartington.org/visit/walks/totnes-dartington-path/



Shared Habitat’s original proposal was to connect Totnes with Buckfastleigh. Thirty years later, new local groups are campaigning to complete the path to Buckfastleigh.

(map drawn by Juliet Robertson of NUTSHELL Natural Paints)