The Performativity of Nonviolence In Translation research session 2/19/2012

Move with US is a socially engaged, participatory dance party. This collaborative event re-examines forms of inclusion through contact across boundaries and borders. Dance can be a form of nonviolent movement that names and resists oppression by promoting compassion and vulnerability. Join us and discover and embody ways of moving that shifts perceptions of (in)visibility, identity, and belonging.

Move with US - participatory dance party (feat. DJ Sard)

By Laura Besancon

https://www.laurabesancon.com

A Force with Force Chorus

Ilana Salama Ortar

https://ilanasalamaortar.org

Narration by Luuk Smits

https://www.luuksmits.nl

First Round Of Collective Narration

The Performativity of Nonviolence exhibition @ Liebig12

Force with Force Chorus is a collaborative workshop, hybrid performance, and exhibition. In the first phase collaborators devise a collective narration translating theory in Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind through personal experiences and understandings of violence. Drawing upon practice-as-research methodologies, groups engage in collective processes to resignify theory through autoethnographic and performance-making methods. Collaborators are invited to read their written reflections out loud as well as the writings from others in the group, approaching nonviolence as a technique of connecting a singular experience across multiple subjective experiences. 

During the virtual performance of the collective narration, a group of voices assemble online. Video cameras are turned off. Names are changed to the first letter of a chosen name. A profile picture is replaced with a colorful side. Similar to a Greek chorus, but without a leader, the act of sensing the porosity of words to speak to understand rather than to speak to be heard cascades subjective experiences into virtual space. Both collaborators and audience members are invited to imagine how relationships can be formed without the need to categorize and identify according to gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, or sexual orientation.

Devised and Facilitated by Zoya Sardashti

Force with Force Chorus Liebig12 in Partnership with CTM/Transmediale Berlin 2022

Zoya Sardashti leads Home Soil Projects, a global organization collaborating with arts and educational institutions to advance research methodologies through performance practice.

Zoya Sardashti

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