Deed of Destruction
(2023)
author(s): Susana Santa-Marta
published in: Research Catalogue
Research documentation for Auto de Destruição/ Auto de Destruição
Walk-in-progress-- taking a stroll/scroll through public spaces with others
(2023)
author(s): Sonam Chaturvedi
published in: Research Catalogue
This is an experimental piece in writing; it is a walking together of thoughts through words, and thereby, mapping virtual and physical spaces created from a series of iterations and responses between the writer and her co-walkers. The piece emphasises on walking-as-practice, and as they take each step in their own individual/shared spaces, they keep conversing and moving randomly on this virtual ground through writing.
Collaborative Live Composition with Frankie (audio clips)
(2023)
author(s): Esa Onttonen
published in: Research Catalogue
Audio clips to a paper submitted to TENOR BOSTON 2023 conference.
Poner el cuerpo – Making spaces public
(2023)
author(s): Rossanaconda
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
In this exposition, I expand the notions and practices of collective body-action intervention (dance, performance, happenings, etc.) as a method to strengthen embodied knowledge, an instigation to engage in restorative encounters, and an invitation to intervene and disrupt political biases of (public) spaces. These methodologies propose alternatives for knowledge exchange/production beyond hegemonic, Eurocentric education.
In parallel, I reflect on my own practice and the anti-patriarchal and decolonial feminist political basis of the collectives of which I am part. We work with strategies and methodologies inspired by feminisms from the Global South, such as taking care of others as a practice that puts aside the patriarchal capitalist model of life that mainly separates, individualizes, prioritizes, and promotes competition and exploitation. We promote exchange, cooperation, and interdependence. I reflect on how these encounters summon the festive memory of our territories and the resilience of our* wounds.
Emotions of the bodies and the resistances will trigger our rituals in Abya Yala**, the flows and drifts will make this poetic-affective encounter, as will the skin itself.
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*We: Here I refer to collectivity in a broad sense in each case: We as the collectives I am part of, we as women (cis, trans, nonbinary), we as immigrants, we as bipoc, etc
**Abya Yala: Self-determined name for the territories in the global south named "America" as a result of the colonizing process.
Shadows of Intimacy, collaboration with Jia Yu Corti
(2023)
author(s): Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
published in: Research Catalogue
Interactive digital art installation for dance performance in collaboration with choreographer Jia Yu Corti, London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), 2011.
Dance improvisation by Robert Anderson and Kathy Crick.
Scented Rooms
(2023)
author(s): Shauheen Daneshfar
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
The exposition Scented Rooms aims to be a form of resistance that finds itself in poetry and politics, poetic imagery, re-thinking censored archives, existential reflections on photography and cinema, and dance.
At the very core of the research is an important historic icon in Iran; The country's oldest theater which was burnt down by extremists during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, closed forever and has decayed over time. The burning of this theater, along with many others, was the starting point for imposing restrictions on art and culture.
The research departs contextually from the efforts of the Islamic government to control civil society. It is a reaction to a history of imposing a specific language discourse and discarding elements that represent a non-religious view, visual changes in the urban space and limiting access to specific types of information that refer to citizens’ collective memory.
Giving agency to this theater, the research aims to revive the collective and public memory of a society, being the voice of those that have been silenced for a long time.
