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On Being With

Category:
Curating & Dramaturgy
Project Type:
Curation
INSTITUTION:
La Wayaka Current - Atacama Chile & Research in Berlin
DATE:
Since April 2022
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Research - Writing - Curation
TASKS:
In this research project, I am exploring practices of reconnecting to our surroundings and to each other, as well as their translation into the field of curating dance & performance art.
INTENTION:

With the research project "Praktiken der Wieder-Verbindung// Practices of Re-Connection" I would like to not only follow, develop and deepen my main interests in eco-ethical
responsibility as a curator and dramaturg in the field of dance and performance, but also to develop them into a well-founded practice. This is based on the conviction that, regardless of the thematic orientation of projects, festivals, formats, etc., ecological, feminist and de-colonial approaches must first and foremost be anchored in the working methods and embodied practices themselves. The aim is to explore and apply principles of curating that promote ecological-ethical responsibility and focus on the relationships between human and non-human bodies and
matter in terms of the design of 'art spaces or contexts'.

The project was funded under the title: "Manifesting Hope. Ecology & Somatics in Curating" funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

CONCLUSIONS:

After my research stay in Chile in April/May 2022, the residency artists met again this year at an exhibition of the visual artist Solène Kerlo in her studio in Paris. In this context, a booklet of mine entitled "On Being With" was created from text materials of the residency and the research project. In the future I am planning a larger project at the intersection of exhibition, festival and exchange format to this research project.

INVOLVED PEOPLE:
Elisabeth Leopold [Fellow Resident Artists: Solène Kerlo, Bas Steens, Sophie Høeg, Benjamin Gibert, Michelle McCarron, Giulia Fumagalli, Aran Ndimurwanko, Andreas Sanderg & Adam Haugbak]
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