A keynote conversation on dance and other embodied practices as a means to study violence, memory, and their intersections, particularly in sites of conflict. Further, this keynote will address how both researchers have utilised digital archives or tools. (English)
Reader in Dance Theory and Performance
Dance studies scholar and contemporary dance practitioner
(English & Spanish) An engaging conversation about the theory and practice of “care for carers” and how to integrate the practice in the engagement with vulnerable populations, including groups of support like therapists, researchers, witnesses, among others. (English & Spanish)
Lecturer in Drama and Theatre
Independent Dance Movement Therapist
The closing event will bring together researchers and arts practitioners from Choco and Pacifico Medio in Colombia to present their work through digital performances and encounters recorded as part of the Embodied Performances project. (Spanish)
A curated conversation about practice-based research, taking up performance as a means of processing memories of conflict for both artists and researchers. Talks will address conflicts across the globe, including in Chile, Gaza Palestine, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. (English)
In order to fully participate in the live event, please watch all of the pre-recorded interventions prior to October 23.
Artist and senior lecturer
Artistic director and PhD researcher
Theatre director and PhD researcher
Physical performer and theatre maker
Creative practitioner and co-founder of Social Art Network
A curated conversation about practice-based research mapping memories of Latin American communities from Nicaragua, Argentina to ‘Pueblito Paisa’ in Seven Sisters, London. The talk explores different media to record unheard voices like dance improvisation, community archives and political mobilisation.
Pre-recorded interventions will be available on the website before the live talk; and a preview of the screen-dance documentary ‘El Cuerpo Partido’ (UK-Costa Rica; 2020) by Paula Guzzanti. (English)
In order to fully participate in the live event, please watch all of the pre-recorded interventions prior to October 26.
Dance lecturer
PhD researcher
Artist and Honorary Research Associate
Professor Geographical Information Science
Sarah, Maria and Manuela will explore the use of digital methods and tools to conduct and disseminate research alongside artists and communities. They will share their experience of community research with older people, digital poetry and victims of conflict to discuss how the digital is transforming research and artistic/community work, its challenges and potential. (English)
Reader in Digital Society
Media artist/e-poet
Artist and curator