Lab presentation 
Paula Caspão

In Terms of (Un)Freedom

Paula Caspão

lives and works between Lisbon and Paris, at the blur of theory and fiction, artistic research and archival practices. Since 2005 she has worked extensively on the choreo-cinematographic dimensions of reading, writing and editing, borrowing from the fields of performance studies, expanded choreography and literature, experimental cinema and feminist science studies. She has presented T-Fi [Theory-Fiction] pieces across Europe, Australia, and the USA. In the company of many, she currently studies the ecologies implicated in the kinds of (im)material labour that sustain and maintain museums, archives and history; all addressed as problematic socio-choreographic endeavours. As for institutional life, Caspão is a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University; a lecturer in the same university’s PhD and MD Programme in Theatre Studies; and an associate researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, UNL Lisbon. She holds a PhD in philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University Paris-X (2010). She has been a visiting scholar in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018).

In Terms of (Un)Freedom

In Terms of (Un)Freedom is a three-day Lab to rehearse forms of diverging together. It will be about how to embrace rough, fuzzy, and bumpy intersections between the choreographic, the cinematographic, the archival, the digital and the decolonial in a quest to re-imagine forms of complicated (often understated) collective freedom, away from frantic productivity-performance-oriented demands. Lending an ear to the countless cultural fields and underfields incorporated in our most common practices, we will address how our current vocabularies, somatics and practices of freedom bear colonial and gendered underpinnings and relate to ecological devastation in ways that are not always manifest.

The Lab opens with a public wording performance in the morning of the first day, stitching with an ensemble of voices, whispers, scrubs, steps and cracks across the books, podcasts, movies and videos that have been living with me in the past months.

Paula Caspão

lives and works between Lisbon and Paris, at the blur of theory and fiction, artistic research and archival practices. Since 2005 she has worked extensively on the choreo-cinematographic dimensions of reading, writing and editing, borrowing from the fields of performance studies, expanded choreography and literature, experimental cinema and feminist science studies. She has presented T-Fi [Theory-Fiction] pieces across Europe, Australia, and the USA. In the company of many, she currently studies the ecologies implicated in the kinds of (im)material labour that sustain and maintain museums, archives and history; all addressed as problematic socio-choreographic endeavours. As for institutional life, Caspão is a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies, Lisbon University; a lecturer in the same university’s PhD and MD Programme in Theatre Studies; and an associate researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, UNL Lisbon. She holds a PhD in philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University Paris-X (2010). She has been a visiting scholar in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (2018).

22.11.
Tue
10.30
22.11.
Tue
10.30
TQW Studios
Free admission

In English

 
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