Index welcomes you to the release of sex and place vol. 1 – 4, a publication project by artists Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen. sex and place is a series of workshops and publications exploring score-based and semi-anonymous writing as a tool for articulating shared concerns.
The ‘sex and place’ series is part Domestic Anarchism, a project devoted to coalition-building beyond biological, chosen, or national conceptions of family. Dance serves as a set of tools and knowledge that can be applied beyond “the spectacle” to collectively study, write, and move. January 23rd to 25th MDT will present a Domestic Anarchism program. The project has a blog which can be found here.
On this occasion Andrea and Adriano will briefly introduce Domestic Anarchism, invite the audience into a collective reading of excerpts from sex and place and open a conversation about the projects.
About the book
sex and place is a series of workshops and publications exploring score-based and semi-anonymous writing as a tool for articulating shared concerns.
Vol. 1: preliminiaries is written by Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen. In the midst of (learning) child care, (unlearning) performance and (experimenting with) sex, the publication interweaves three registers of writing as analogies and interruptions of each other.
Vol 2: discores is written by Kexin Hao, Luca Soudant, HaYoung, Andrea Zavala Folache & Adriano Wilfert Jensen. Five strangers are stuck in changing boots next to each other and decide to embark on an intimate conversation starting from the question: “What is troubling your sexuality at the moment?”.
Vol 3: The Edge is a movie script written, edited, printed and recorded over three days at Performing Arts Forum by Picot Chapman, James Elsey, Carina Erdmann, Andrea Zavala Folache, Patch Hofweber, Steph Holl-Trieu, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Steph Joyce, Hasan Khalid, Nick Koppenhagen, Laurent Van Lancker, Lilly Markaki, Orion Maxted, Patch Hofweber and Tony Parisi.
Vol. 4: you asked me is written by Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen. Like vol. 1 it weaves different registers of writing with questions about polyamory, childcare, family abolition and class struggle.
About the artists
Andrea Zavala Folache has a transdisciplinary approach to dance informed by her/their training in visual arts, painting and choreography. Apart from engaging in long-term collaborative creations and performance experiments, such as Domestic Anarchism, Lands of Concert and Performing Arts Forum, Andrea is interested in questioning pedagogy and creation, teaching at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam and co-coordinating ISAC (Bachelor and Master in Choreography) in Brussels. In recent years she/they have been showing and performing in mostly European contexts such as Bâtard Festival, Les Urbaines, TanzQuartier Wien, Conde Duque, La Casa Encendida, Kaai Theater, De Singel, Brakke Grond, FLAM, amongst others.
Adriano Wilfert Jensen uses dance and choreography to analyze and produce conditions for relations. Since graduating from School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam they have worked with dance as a set of knowledge and tools that can be used for making dance performances, but also for making publications, curating and more. After some years of touring internationally way too fast, she is working with Andrea on developing a methodology for international collaboration in dance that is more artistically, environmentally and relationally sustainable–And which can provide a good enough environment for his toddler. Recent engagements include: feelings and mixed feelings, dance performances, Galerie, an immaterial gallery and publisher for immaterial artworks, Performing arts forum, co-coordination of a self-organised residency. Dog Days Discourse, a peer-to-peer publication on dance Kitchen 3, a risograph print workshop without an owner.
The Bookshop Situation Series at Index is based on events to present books, magazines, records and other artistic formats. The bookshop situation is a way to test content, to share it, to distribute it, offering situations to be part of a community of experimental producers and users.
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