GOING MAD
A two-session workshop using action and performance to think from a queer perspective about ways of being that are beyond binary categories and fixed definitions of identity.
To meet up, to write, to speak, to read an extract, a sentence, a word, to keep silent, to get up and go to the blackboard, to dither
Q ENCOUNTER 2018
With The Last Letter is Q, Changing Name and Project Q, this year we continue our exploration of queer research and pedagogies, which we began some years ago now.
La Casa is a quest, a deal, an adventure, a disaster of one’s own making, a practice that refutes that “always is never possible.”.
Schools are places where forms of interrelating and identity are produced. At times, the classroom is governed by a set of rules based on a binary vision of gender, sex and sexuality that limit any other possibility of being in the world.
Experience-based practices involve a much higher level of learning that those focused on the transmission of given knowledge. That is why, at the end of the academic year we organise a summer workshop for teachers with the goal of exploring the educational potential of action and ways of constructing knowledge that can come from action.
This workshop will be taking a critical approach to some of the possibilities for creative action that the open spectrum of identity brings to artistic practices today.
The dance technique of Contact Improvisationwas introduced during the seventies and then began to spread worldwide in the following decade of the eighties.