pavleheidler

i like to say that i am a word and movement artist, an educator, and an amateur scholar working in the expanding field of queer critical practice.
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Sweden (residence), Croatia, Sweden (citizenship) °1989
research interests: Gender studies, dance;, dancefilm, performance, performativity
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my name is pavleheidler. i go by pavle or pav. i was born in a country that doesn’t exist, the city that is now capital to croatia, a popular tourist attraction. i identify as trans non-binary, my pronouns are they/them, and i am neuroqueer (adhd/autism).

i like to say that i am a movement-and-word artist and activist, an educator, and a queer critical thinker who specialises in developing research-oriented performative practices within the expanding fields of dance and choreography. my work-ing is meant to be encouraging of the continual re-form-ing in and of the intersectional and the emergent field of queer critical practice.

i think that the practices i am developing are first and foremost embodied practices which necessarily makes them liberatory practices which necessarily makes them emergent practices in as much as working with the body, creating space for the body–*or: body–*necessitates critical observation and the re-thinking of the existing structures that currently create spaces for bodies.

 

research

research diaries

  • interwoven: ADHD and the Creative Mind (last edited: 2024) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Initiated by Christopher Kelly, interwoven: ADHD and the Creative Mind explores one's coming to terns with being diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood by means of crocheting, and dancing.
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  • the history project (working title) (last edited: 2022) author(s): pavleheidler, Alys Longley, Edvard Stokstad This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    My working hypothesis for the history project (working title) states that "the standard narrative timeline" is a work of fiction which–it being historically inaccurate–requires effort to maintain. "The standard narrative timeline" is what I call that version of dance history that all professionals trained in dance in the West will be somewhat familiar with. This version of dance history says that through selective criticism of existing standards modern dance developed "from" ballet, postmodern dance developed "from" modern dance, etc.
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  • to walk to think to dance research diary (last edited: 2022) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    In the summer of 2022, I will be hosting one of the two IDOCDE residencies adjacent to the 10th IDOCDE symposium entitled The Rest of Art, A Manifesto. As I begun reading about walking and dreaming about walking, a desire emerged–to complement the practice by documenting the experience. Documenting–writing, photographing, note taking–the experience of documenting feels like dream-catching.
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  • Odin's Eye: From Dancing to Storytelling (last edited: 2024) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    credits et al
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  • TRÄD working diary (last edited: 2023) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    TRÄD is an intra-active work continually re-created by Cristina Caprioli and collaborators. of all the work i've embodied, performed, TRÄD is the work I performed the most. coming back to TRÄD between FEB 23 and APR 15, 2022, is meaningful not only because this the first time I will take to "the stage" since the outbreak of the pandemic. coming back to TRÄD is meaningful because it includes a coming back.
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poems

  • pavements (last edited: 2022) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    these pictures and words document reflections on the placement of the gaze in dancing. the writing and the photographing is ongoing.
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  • licence plates, 2022 (last edited: 2022) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    this poem is written in or with licence plates.
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research expositions

  • anti-anticipatory aesthetics (last edited: 2022) author(s): Alys Longley, pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    “anti-anticipatory aesthetic” names the experimental creative strategy that functions according to a principle similar to “act first, deduct later,” which–in itself–is an homage-of-sorts to Deborah Hay’s choreographic strategy “shoot, then aim.” the aim of “anti-anticipatory aesthetic” is to put observation at the centre of the creative process instead of anticipation.
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  • the physical consequence to knowing, london 2021 (last edited: 2021) author(s): pavleheidler This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    My research revolves around the questions: what is the difference between theoretical knowledge and bodily knowledge and what is the physical consequence to knowing? My interest lies in articulating study as a quintessentially physical practice and asking in which way would the institution need to structurally reorganise to organise around the experience of study (Bonnie 1994), instead of study as defined by documented intellectual accomplishment? I have come to understand dancers' obedience as integral to the economy and the politic of dance study and dance making. I am looking at how obedience relates to silence, and why a dancer who can afford to learn how not to be silent myst be seen as a threat too the economic, political, and social alignment of neoliberal capitalism.
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