Dates
| 29.06.2024 / |
| 30.06.2024 / |
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The Festival of Queer Knowledge is a week-long event in Prague. Organized by local non-profit and grassroots initiatives, the festival invites you to get to know queer & feministic approaches, histories, and perspectives. The Festival aims to accommodate voices of both local and international queer cultures, create a communal atmosphere and share the knowledge of many with the entire world.
The multicolored event is brought to you by SVĚTOVA 1 🌍 Plusko+ ✨ Artbiom 🌱 Sdruženy 🌸 Studio ALTA 🔴
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Becka McFadden & Daniel Somerville: Non-Binary Embodiment – workshop (garden)
29.06. 17:00-19:00
In this workshop, friends and collaborators Becka McFadden and Daniel Somerville of Beautiful Confusion Collective will share approaches to movement and embodiment from their performance-making practice. Becka and Daniel have a particular interest in the performativity of the non-binary body and the visibility of non-binary embodiment onstage — particularly when the performer, to quote a line from their project Black Dress — is never going to be mistaken for the non-binary emoji (i.e., is not androgynous in appearance). Infused with pleasure activism (adrienne maree brown) and queer joy, their work draws on a shared practice of butoh and approaches they have developed individually, drawing on architecture, opera and creative writing in a studio setting. Come dressed in comfortable clothes and prepared to move and feel pleasure.
Becka McFadden (she/they) is a performance maker, performer and director based in Prague. They are the founder and artistic director of Beautiful Confusion, an interdisciplinary, international collective based at Venuše ve Švehlovce. With Beautiful Confusion, Becka makes performance works at the intersection of dance, theatre and live art for theatres and site-specific locations.
Daniel Somerville (he/they) is an independent artist, performer and dramaturg. They are also an academic researcher and lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK. Their work spans the fields of cabaret, neo-burlesque, dance, Butoh and contemporary performance, collaborative theatre and live art. Much of Somerville’s work is rooted in a particular understanding of gender and queer theory.
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Jatun Risba: The Intimacy of Otherness – performance
29.06. – 19:30-20:30
The performance-lecture “The Intimacy of Otherness” explores new forms of transmedia story-telling that gives voice to “other” (untold, private, transgressive…) narratives. The goal is to cross-pollinate experiences, methods and wisdom practices across generations, nations, cultures and even species. The work is informed by the author’s personal lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-19) but transcends and queers the usual boundaries of autobiographical representation.
Jatun Risba (they/them) is a migrant transmedia performance artist from Slovenia. Their work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, conceptual art, relational art and practices of abjection, détournement and art intervention. Risba is the founder and co-facilitator of the global performance ecoart project Be-coming Tree. They hold a BA from NABA, Milan and a PGC in Art & Science from UAL, London. More at https://jatunrisba.com/, https://becomingtree.live/
without reservations, admission is voluntary