Arts & Enaction

Alva Noë is Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Center for New Media, the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, as well as the Program in Critical Theory. Professor Noë is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2018 recipient of the Judd Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies. Until the end of 2026, he is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University in Berlin. He is the author of Action in Perception (2004), Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (2009), Varieties of Presence (2012), Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (2015), Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark (2019), and Learning To Look: Dispatches from the Art World (2022). His latest book is The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are (2023). He is currently writing about love, life, perspective, and AI.

Fabrice Mazliah is a Swiss choreographer and performer based in Frankfurt am Main. A former member of Nederlands Dans Theater and Ballet Frankfurt/The Forsythe Company (1997–2015), his work blends choreography with artistic research, exploring embodied knowledge and the evolving relationship between bodies, objects, language, and environments.

Mazliah is known for centering the role of the spectator, creating works that invite multiple perspectives and challenge binary interpretations. His practice merges movement and language, seeking new forms of narrative and poetry.

He has developed a diverse repertoire both independently and collaboratively, including key works such as REMOTE VERSIONS, HUE, and ZERO, and co-founded the collectives MAMAZA, HOOD, and Work of Act. His projects have been presented widely, from Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Théâtre de la Ville to the Venice Architecture Biennale.

In addition to his artistic work, Mazliah teaches internationally, contributing to programs like P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), La Manufacture (Lausanne), and C.U.P. (Giessen). In 2024, he is Artist in Residence at Künstler:innenhaus Mousonturm and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. He lives between Basel and Frankfurt.