Dates
| 05.09.2025 / 18:00 |
Information
“Common body” Is a series of participatory experiences that shape a non-gendered narrative around the human body. By inviting participants to perceive each other through different senses with their eyes closed, they become unable to categorize one another through the gender binary, allowing a new form of relationality to emerge. By shifting their reliance on sight (the dominant sense tied to colonial euro-centric frameworks of categorization, including the gender binary) and experience through touch, sound, and spatial awareness, participants enter a shared flow of movement, where individual bodies dissolve into a common one.
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Performers: Leire de Meer + audience participation
Language: English / Duration: approx. 1 hour
Note: audience participation
Leire de Meer (1999, Madrid) is a visual artist and performer whose practice focuses on the ability that fiction has to alter materiality. Through performance, video, participatory art and the creation of artistic communities they explore questions around queer embodiment, monstrous bodies, and grief. They studied Fine Arts at Complutense University of Madrid and an MA in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from Reina Sofía National Museum in collaboration with Complutense University and Autonoma University of Madrid. Since then, they have exhibited their work internationally in Tokyo (KUMA Gallery), Hiroshima (SAGORI Gallery Space), Helsinki (Lapinlahden Lähde), Maribor (OBRAT Gallery), and nationally in Barcelona (Ca la Dona) and Madrid (Museo Reina Sofía and Intermediae Matadero). They have also participated in contemporary art conferences in Helsinki (ELIA Biennal), Madrid (Acción Springt), Barcelona (Bollos et al) and Tokyo (Stilllive Studies).
