Paula Caspão: "In Terms of (Un)Freedom"

Lab presentation

"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.