Visiting Tutors #7

Joshua Wicke

Joshua Wicke is a curator and dramaturge working in the fields of Performance, Dance, and Theatre. Besides his dramaturgical collaborations (with Moved by the Motion, caner teker, Carolina Mendonça, Alexander Giesche amongst others), recent projects include the curation of the series „Poetics of Refusal“ on artistic and political strategies of withdrawal, nonperformance and negativity, co-curation of „Palast der Republik“ at Berliner Festspiele, co-facilitating „Dirty Debüt“, a platform for emerging performance artists in different venues in Berlin. Joshua has taught on collaborative dramaturgy, representational strategies in and of crisis and aesthetics of ecology. His editorial projects include "Theatre in Lockdown" and "Haptic Entanglements“. Previously a dramaturge at Schauspielhaus Zürich, he now works as a curator at Gessnerallee Zürich.

"Unworlding Choir," workshop curated by Joshua Wicke.
March 25-26, 2024
During Studio Program #7, Joshua Wicke led a workshop in which the ambiguous history of dramaturgical practice was examined, understood as a practice of control and normalization. Following historical regulations that outlined which voices and vocalizations were allowed on stage and which were destined for silence, the workshop explored the ways in which dramaturgy patrols the boundaries of the stage.

Mayra Rodriguez Castro


Mayra. A. Rodriguez Castro
is a writer and the editor of Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984-1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020), a collection of unpublished lectures by Audre Lorde, and In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love (2023), a volume of writings by abolitionist scholar Joy James in collaboration with Divided Publishing. Castro is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, 2018) and a recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship (Naropa University, 2019). Her essay, El Nuevo Sublime, was a finalist for the National Award for Essays and Criticism in Colombia (2019). Her words have been hosted by Dia Art Foundation, De Appel, Fivehundred Places, Artforum, Amant Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, Changes Press Review, and MACBA, among others.

"La Sonnambula," workshop curated by Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro.
April 9-10-11, 2024
During Studio Program #7, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro led a workshop in which participants explored the city at night, walking through underground aqueducts and visiting the invisible archives of Rome. The workshop aimed to consider film, photography, writing, and walking as traditions of image-making.

Veza Fernandez

Veza Fernandez is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of vocal expression as a place of relation, imagination and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background stretches between Philology, Pedagogy, Theater, Music and Contemporary Dance. Fields that in a way or the other influence her artistic researches and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. Her work is strongly rooted locally, infiltrating from within the underground scene bigger Dance and Theater institutions. She holds a Masters in Choreography from the DAS Graduate school (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown amongst other in brut Wien, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin, Gesnerallee Zürich, de Singel Antwerp, La Casa Encendida Madrid.

 

"A Carpet of Lungs," workshop curated by Vera Fernandez.
May 20-21, 2024
During Studio Program #7, Vera Fernandez led a workshop focused on training and learning to listen. In this workshop, participants collectively formed a group ear that supports each individual in exploring the depths of perception and learning how to support themselves and others.

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