SPRING Academy: Decolonial Dramaturgies: Reclaiming the body hosted by Choy Ka Fai
Please note: there is space for 20 participants per trajectory
This trajectory explores how performing arts can question and unsettle colonial ways of understanding bodies. Rather than approaching decoloniality only through a geopolitical lens, this trajectory focuseson an intersectional perspective that examines how bodies are disciplined through power structures. Participants will engage with different artistic approaches that reclaim the body as a site of agency, resistance, and reimagination.
Host
Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imaginenew futures of the human body.
Dates & times
- Wed May 20: 19.00-22.00
- Thu May 21: 10.00-21.20 (incl. breaks)
- Fri May 22: 16.00-22.25 (incl. breaks)
- Sat May 23: 10.00-13.00 (incl. breaks)
Costs
€171 incl. tickets for all performances in this package (excluding optional performances), €145 if you wish to buy a passe-partout (with special Academy discount).
Included
Performances:
- Work Body – Michael Turinsky
- The quiet – Anthony van Gog
- IsLand Bar – orangcosong
- Giselle. A Summary – Toshiki Okada
- Home Bound – Luke George & Daniel Kok
- No man’s Land – alaa minawi
- SoftMachine: The Return – Choy Ka Fai
Masterclass:
- Surjit Nongmeikapam
Talks:
- Topic Talk
- Opening and Reflection session with Choy Ka Fai
- After talk with Toshiki Okada, alaa minawi, Choy Ka Fai
- Bar talk
Lunch: Provided on 21st and 23rd of May
Optional events (sign up required):
- Engeki Quest
- Reading Group with Michael Turinsky
- LILITH.AEON – Aoi + Esteban