Call for suggestions for IETM Tromsø
Dear Collegues
Dansearena nord and the Norwegian team is looking forward to having you all join us for the spring plenary meeting in Tromsø. The theme for the plenary meeting is Art and Activism - we will be looking into how performing art can serve a means of protest. If anyone wants to suggest artists, academics or others that could enlighten us on the issue please leave me a message. Otherwise I am looking forward to seeing you alle in Tromsø next year: April 30th to May 3rd 2020.
Hey dear Susanne and ARTivist in Tromsö!
I guess we have some Gothenburgers with both broad and narrow insite in that subject.
-Invite Therese Svensson on "De-Coolinising White feminism" https://lir.gu.se/om-oss/personal?userId=xsveth
-Invite Malin Aghed https://www.artivist.nu/om-artivist-nu/
and she also works in the BIG house;-) https://sv.opera.se/om-oss/personal/portratt/malin-aghed/
All the best and I hope to be there!
Kjære Moa!
Takk for forslag: jeg skal sjekke og se hva vi får til! Håper du har det bra etter fine dager i Turku. Gleder meg til å se deg igjen!
Beste hilsner fra nord
Susanne
We have a bustling collective called Peng!, based in Germany who are also familiar with the subject and who have been collaborating with theatres for a while now: https://pen.gg/
Dear Maike
Thank you for your message and your suggestion. As you probably can imagne there are lots of information coming in at the moment, so I will have to get back to you in case we are able to do something for the next plenary meeting.
Thank you for getting in touch and looking forward to seeing you in Tromsø!
Greetings from dark Hammerfest
Susanne
I would love to come with my Light Ladd & Emberton co-director, Deborah Light, to talk about our experiences as director-choreographer and producer sitting alongside our very close involvement in Extinction Rebellion UK national movement. In addition, we also have a new co-production in the offing with a non-arts partner, Size of Wales, an NGO which specialises in preventing deforestation, and protecting forest habitats and peoples globally. The new project(s) may well happen during the UN's COP26 in Glasgow next year, as well as other elements happening in India through a university partner we have there in Bolpur, nr Kolkata, as well as in Wales ongoing.
On a different note entirely, I would also highly recommend my colleagues in Diverse City and Cirque Bijou to talk about Extraordinary Bodies, the UK's integrated circus company of D/deaf, disabled and other performers. It's about the company being fully representative on and off stage of the publics who are in the audience and wider society, making change in both the arts and in the world. A short promo here and a 5 min overview here.
That's all for now but let me know if you want an e-intro to both of them?
Having moderated for the whole IETM Satellite in Wales, and also now co-writing a Fresh Perspectives publication on rural arts with Vassilka and others, I would be glad to be considered for a moderation role for one or more sessions too if appropriate.
Dear Laura
Thank you for your mail. As you can imagine there is a lot of information coming in at the moment. I have shared your information with Victor in IETM. I cannot tell if we are able to do something regarding your suggestion at this point, but I will be getting back to you in case we do.
Thank you for reaching out and I do hope to see you in Tromsø next year.
Greetings from Hammerfest
Susanne
Hi Susanne,
I can recommend to you the Belgian group of artists 'state of the arts'. They are very active at the moment with the announced budgetcuts in Flanders. You find more info on state-of-the-arts.net
Good luck!
Veerle
Dear Veerle
Thank you for making me aware of this. I will for sure have at look at it - a very important topic these days as both Belgia and Hungary are suffering severly from cuts in the arts sector.
Greetings from the North
Susanne
Dear Veerle
Thank you for making me aware of this. I will for sure have at look at it - a very important topic these days as both Belgia and Hungary are suffering severly from cuts in the arts sector.
Greetings from the North
Susanne
Hi Susanne,
Hope you are well!
This is all really exciting.
I would love to propose a couple of sessions and have recently faclitated the IETM Satellite in Milan.
- Micro-activism
An interactive session designed to encourage people to question the ways in which they can activise for change within their capacity, taking the fear out of activism and encouraging dialogue about the ways in which we are all gatekeepers, allies and potential change makers in our everyday lives.
- Are We The Problem?
A conversation session, recently delivered and developed with Edinburgh International Festival as part of their International Delegate Programme, which encourages us all to be honest about our role in systemic issues so that we can take action to affect genuine change. The session dicusses the obvious, nuanced and complicated ways in which we can believe one thing but demonstrate another with our actions, putting our work in a real world context.
Happy to Skype to talk these things through more if that is helpful.
Would also recommend Slunglow (https://www.slunglow.org/slung-low/) doing lots of great work to do with class and Black Ticket Project (https://www.patreon.com/blackticketproject).
Thanks,
Em
Hello Susanne, hello everyone!
I'm answering to this post after a mail of Fernando Bittencourt who made me aware of this forum...I don't know if im still on time.
I'd like to explore this topics, that I can't find so often in our meetings:
1. LGBT / QUEER Aesthetics and Poetics: not just drag queen, not just gender fluidity, not just performance openly on the subject. Is there a Queer approach to performative practice?
2. What remains of the Sontang's"camp"?
3. How limited is a "non-category" like "Queer"?
4. How much has Anglo-Saxon thought and its definitions influenced and shaped aesthetics and practice of activism in this field? Is there a Mediterranean "queerness"?
5. What are the forms of LGBT and Queer activism and what resonance do they have in the world of art and performative art
6. How much being activists marginalizes someone's artistic practice, resizing it to a less official art.
And to explore them I'd like to suggest a name: Giulia Casalini, art curator and researcher, involved into queer and feminist activist based in London.
I asked her a short presentation in order to post it here:
"My research focusses on queer-feminist methodologies in live art.
Is very much based on my own experience as a producer and curator and on the activities that I have been running with my organisation since 2012. More info n www.cuntemporary.org
Info on my research:
"Counter-histories of Queer-feminist Live Art: A Transversal Cartography"
My research will provide a contemporary analysis of artists and collectives whose lives and practices have been informed by queer and feminist politics, aesthetics and ethics. Departing from post-2000s artistic manifestations, I will lay out the case for what I will argue is ‘queer-feminist’ live art by employing a transversal approach to the art historical canon.
With this research, I aim to map and connect, transnationally and cross-generationally, a queer-feminist live art network which cannot be gathered under one single ‘movement’ or pre-established historical factors. I will argue that notions of queer and feminism shift and transform both aesthetically and politically according to the context, geography and period to create alliances and hybridisations with specific counter-cultures and publics."
What do you think about it?
Hughs
Tommaso Franchin
exvUoto teatro
Italy
And Another artist I'd like to suggest is Ahmed Umar a norwegian artist who came from Sudan as a political refugee...
https://www.ahmedumar.com/
Hello everyone and to Ema and Tommaso that I did not reply to earlier.
I thank you for your suggestions that I have read and chekked up on all of them. We have received a lot of very good suggestions.
the status for the program as of today is that we are about to close the programming of the plenary meeting. We have too short time to make use of all your splendid suggestions but I do realize that there is a huge potential to work further and into more detail on the issue. For instance in the direction of feminism, colonialism or capatalism and all the other ism´s we know. Could I encourage those who replied to his call or some of your partners to consider a satelite meeting on your suggestions? That would be a really nice way of taking it forward.
Thank you for your suggestions and engagement - some of the suggesions are being worked on and some not due to the lack of time (and space).
- I am looking forward to seeing you in Tromsø!
Dear Susanne,
hopefully I'm not too late so I try to suggest you Vânia Rodrigues whom I had the chance to meet one week ago in Budapest. She had a workshop in which I attended and I have to say it was very inspiring, lots of important and pioneer questions emerged. And also, she is a very good speaker.
On the link below you can see more about her main subject which might not fit totally and perfectly into the theme 'Art and Activism' but based on what I she was speaking about I can say that her research topic easily can be connected to IETM main theme.
https://accessculture-portugal.org/cultural-management-a-challenge-for-civil-disobedience-2/
Kind regards,
Éva Papp
The Symptoms (Hungary)