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1st call for papers – thinking about the body – BODY AND PRECARIOUSNESS

A precariedade é necessária para a protecção do estilo de vida ou da vida de outros sujeitos. Portanto não se pode pensar em corpo ser ter em conta as condições que o tornam vulnerável à precariedade, sejam questões relativas ao género, origem, orientação sexual, sexualidade, classe, raça, diferença cultural, doença, incapacidade, aspecto físico ou idade. Pretendemos insistir menos na política identitária ou nas pretensões identitárias (e sua subversão enganadora) e mais na precariedade e suas distribuições da diferença e da exploração nos mapas do poder contemporâneo.

Body

06.02.2013 | by Buala

BODY in review . New project

Thinking about the body is a strategic requirement, a way to discuss the normative processes of exclusion, naturalization and production, setting new ways to be in the world, new affections, to expand the horizon of the reasoning about the body. The idea is to insist less in the identity politics nor the identity pretensions (and its deceiver subversion) and more on precariousness and the way it deals with difference as well as the way the maps of power are exploited.

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06.11.2012 | by Buala

Contemporary dance from Africa as creative opposition to stereotypical images of Africanity

On the one hand I try to understand how African dance and as African considered corporalities are used as an aesthetic medium in common European cultural practices. How does European discourse create which images of African dance and performances? On the other hand and crucially, I focus on the African side of the coin: how do African dancers and choreographers (re)act and which are their individual choices in the scope of various challenges and do European discourse have any significance on African dancers’ and choreographers’ decisions?