I’m excited to announce Gatherings to Disappear that I organize with Áron Birtalan. It´s a 3-day symposium for performative practices, lived spirituality and unruly thought. Bringing together voices from choreography, performance, religion and mutant academia we are looking forward to times of swarming, crumbling, melting, choiring, blooming anew.
28-30 November, 2024 at
𓀤 Stockholm University of the Arts, Institute for Dance
𓁥 Church of St Peter and St Sigfrid
𓀡 Studio NYXXX
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The theme Gatherings to Disappear calls forth the dissolving power of coming together and the practices that host it. Togetherness and closeness renders bodies permeable and thoughts contaminated. Voluntary or involuntary may the occasion be, gatherings are a place of unknowing, of unreliability, of possibility. Because of this, a gatherings hold both persistent questions and answers precisely in their contamination and unruly multitude – and pose a very real threat to the myth of the individual, the sovereign. A less than the sum of our parts.
Likewise, with an emphasis on religious and spiritual practices, we want to highlight how, akin to artistic practice, modes of inter-subjectivity from religion and spirituality can be a critical sensitivity to reckon with, and not just the object of criticism or a mystified opposition to intellectuality.
We will become choirs singing songs unheard and unknown; extend our hands into the matrix of the dead; communally read the words of a medieval body raptured in ecstasy; feel the breath of past gatherings on the back of our necks; explore ceremonies to cleanse and infect; dance, sweat, drift, repeat.
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