
#INSTAR @ documenta: Autonomous expanded practices
Autonomous expanded practices Guests: Marianela Boán Choreographer, dancer and teacher Víctor Varela Theater director Mariela Brito Actress Nelda Castillo Theater director Lynn Cruz Actress Tania Bruguera Artist, activist and director of INSTAR Sandra Ceballos Artist Moderated by: Ileana Dieguez Researcher and writer Embodied experience is a term used by theorists of situated thought, and in particular by Donna Haraway, to validate the body and lived experience as discursive sites. Working out of such a discursive position we would like to encourage here a dialogue between people who have led autonomous practices committed to the exercise of free, independent thought in a context of overbearing social, intellectual, affective, and human control. In the search for sources that may aid us in thinking beyond our insular condition, we hope to explore Hakim Bey's thoughts on "temporary autonomous zones" and "intentional communities" in order to reflect on the weaving of information networks in Cuba as alternatives to institutional venues and forms of production. We are interested in discussing to what extent these might be conceived as the source of poetics that, mired in cumbersome situations and materialities, set the ground for independent practices that were able to articulate voices and bodies that identify with other ways of doing, generally not allowed, and which for that same reason were eventually branded as illegal, repulsive, dissident, and—why not: independent.
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