Vulva Club #17 Octopuss_y

Fxtrouble initiated the public platform VULVA CLUB with the objective of bolstering and activating a community. VULVA CLUB is a regular event series, an attempt towards peripheral visibility, amplifying underrepresented feminist/queer perspectives. With VULVA CLUB fxtrouble invite guests and fellows to choreograph challenging and experimental encounters of art/works, people, communities and conversations – all through mutual affection in real time. 

photo credit: Judy Landkammer

FEMALE TROUBLE presents : VULVA CLUB #17 – octopuss_y
with Maque Pereyra, Pauline Payen, Vala T. Foltyn

SAT 17.02.2018 19:30 I 19:00 Doors Open I Free Admission
at Vierte Welt, Kreuzberg Galerie 1. OG / Kottbusser Tor (Use stairs outside Adalbertstr.96 up to Galerie (Cafe Kotti). Turn right. Walk on Galerie to the very last location on the left in front of the flower bed)

“We are many bodies and so we can easily multiply. We are young and not as young as you might think. Our ideas do not operate by establishing skeletons, so we expand our bodies into an octopus-like form. Our limbs are many suckers that we use to grasp substratum, catch prey and move from place to place, embracing non-linear locomotion. We chose each other differently than it was asked. We share resources horizontally. We are many vaginas, many phalluses and many rectums, or maybe even more?
How do we choreograph awareness? What is the process of thinking, feeling, sensing, and knowing? What is the embodied knowledge? Where does it arise from and how this knowledge meet other bodies? What leads us to the process of empowerment? How do we empower ourselves and each other in our art making practices?
This encounter investigates different ways of generating knowledge, one that comes out from mutual affection and trust. When we think/say/dance knowledge – we are looking for the one passing through various bodies and mediums, protocols and (hacking) strategies of its own creation. This knowledge is longing for participation/engagement rather than explanation. We come together as a collective, yet we support individuality. We choreograph/shape our limits as waves and we surf them.”

This performative lecture led by Maque Pereyra, Pauline Payen, Vala T. Foltyn was programmed as a panel titled Strategies of Empowerment / The Force of Dance, at Inventur #2 – Contemporary Dance & Performance international conference, May 2017 in Dusseldorf. This time the four artists will meet again and share their practices in the frame of VULVA CLUB in Berlin. The ongoing process of sharing the knowledge among those four artists will shapeshift the current form of this encounter, into which we invite you to witness, feel and experience with us.

Lecture Performance for Vulva Club

FEMALE TROUBLE presents : VULVA CLUB #17 – octopuss_y
with Maque Pereyra, Pauline Payen, Vala T. Foltyn

SAT 17.02.2018 19:30 I 19:00 Doors Open I Free Admission
at Vierte Welt, Kreuzberg Galerie 1. OG / Kottbusser Tor (Use stairs outside Adalbertstr.96 up to Galerie (Cafe Kotti). Turn right. Walk on Galerie to the very last location on the left in front of the flower bed)

“We are many bodies and so we can easily multiply. We are young and not as young as you might think. Our ideas do not operate by establishing skeletons, so we expand our bodies into an octopus-like form. Our limbs are many suckers that we use to grasp substratum, catch prey and move from place to place, embracing non-linear locomotion. We chose each other differently than it was asked. We share resources horizontally. We are many vaginas, many phalluses and many rectums, or maybe even more?
How do we choreograph awareness? What is the process of thinking, feeling, sensing, and knowing? What is the embodied knowledge? Where does it arise from and how this knowledge meet other bodies? What leads us to the process of empowerment? How do we empower ourselves and each other in our art making practices?
This encounter investigates different ways of generating knowledge, one that comes out from mutual affection and trust. When we think/say/dance knowledge – we are looking for the one passing through various bodies and mediums, protocols and (hacking) strategies of its own creation. This knowledge is longing for participation/engagement rather than explanation. We come together as a collective, yet we support individuality. We choreograph/shape our limits as waves and we surf them.”

This performative lecture led by Maque Pereyra, Pauline Payen, Vala T. Foltyn was programmed as a panel titled Strategies of Empowerment / The Force of Dance, at Inventur #2 – Contemporary Dance & Performance international conference, May 2017 in Dusseldorf. This time the four artists will meet again and share their practices in the frame of VULVA CLUB in Berlin. The ongoing process of sharing the knowledge among those four artists will shapeshift the current form of this encounter, into which we invite you to witness, feel and experience with us.

Panelist @ INVENTUR # 2

I will hold the panel Strategies of Empowerment together with the talented Agata Siniarska, Vala Tomasz Foltyn , and Maque Peyrera during INVENTUR #2 in Düsseldorf. Program under.

FACEBOOK EVENT 

Panels, Lectures, Live Acts, Performances

Topics: Globalism / Postcolonialism
Audience and Attention
Bodies in Crisis / Dance and Crisis
Social Practices and the Inherent Politics of Dance
Education
Performing the Museum
Expanding the Institution
Theory
Strategies of Empowerment / The Force of Dance

With: Anurima Banerji, Rustom Bharucha, Claire Bishop, Jonathan Burrows, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Nora Chipaumire, Bojana Cvejić, Dan Daw, Gurur Ertem, Vala Tomasz Foltyn, Susan Leigh Foster, Sujata Goel, Trajal Harrell, Maria Hassabi, Ana Janevski, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Ralph Lemon, Lina Majdalanie, Babette Mangolte, Achille Mbembe, Joe Moran, Rabih Mroué, Sandra Noeth, Opiyo Okach, Jay Pather, Pauline Payen, Manuel Pelmuş, Maque Pereyra, Javiera Peon-Veiga, Chantal Pontbriand, Laurence Rassel, Jan Ritsema, Lia Rodrigues, Georg Schöllhammer, Agata Siniarska, Gabriel Smeets and Susana Tambutti

Performances: Raimund Hoghe, Mithkal Alzghair

Concept: Sigrid Gareis, Gabriele Brandstetter, Martina Hochmuth, Bettina Masuch

Registration is open: http://bit.ly/Inventur_2017

The event will be held in English.

INVENTUR 2 wants to analyse the current situation within contemporary dance and performance art, across genre boundaries and in a cross-sectoral manner. 12 years after the first INVENTUR, which took place in Vienna in 2005, the field’s most prominent performers discuss central topics within the latest developments of contemporary dance and art, all the while taking in consideration current political, ecological and economic crises. In 9 panels, both the inventory as well as the inventory-taking itself will be up for discussion.

An event of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia in collaboration with the tanzhaus nrw, supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. INVENTUR 2 takes place within the framework of the European Dancehouse Network (EDN), co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.