PRACTICABLE 11_Open Call: callisto by Lucia Palladino

“For me, all ways of knowing the world are constituent parts of the world itself. They form it, so to speak. Thus to know also means to inform the world while the world is informing us. Practicing different ways of knowing therefore means practicing different agencies on the world. Verbal language is one way of knowing the world, but not the only one. But it is certainly one of the ways that has the most power in the hierarchy of knowledge in our western world. In order to produce change in the world and to begin to learn from the world, understood as a complex system of relationships, I think it is necessary to reshuffle the hierarchical order of knowledge. The hierarchical order is made possible by the fact that classes of knowledge have been generated having more power than others and can therefore have more or less transformative power than others. Verbal language is perhaps the most powerful mode of knowledge, and it seems to me necessary to move it from the apex of power and learn to use it otherwise, weaving it inseparably with everything else. It is therefore urgent for me to activate an operation of deconstructing knowledge from classes: social classes, material classes, gender classes and species classes, in order to imagine ways of learning capable of nourishing other possible worlds which exist in the world we live. We just didn’t see them yet.

During the workshop we will practice some exercises of image thinking and image production through touch, speech, walking and writing. We will work indoor and outdoor. Bring comfortable shoes for walking. Anyone who is interested into poetic languages, neuroatypical knowledge production patterns, and anticapitalist struggle practices is welcome. I will share the practices I’m developing for my project “callisto”. I will propose different materials/exercises depending on the group.”

Lucia Palladino

Practical Information
Date: Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th April
Time: 11 am to 4 pm.
Place: Sala Ricson, Hangar
Registration required: Free activity for a maximum group of 15 participants with previous registration here before Friday 18th April

Lucia Palladino is an independent transdisciplinary artist and researcher in the field of performance and choreography based in Brussels. She has combined and informed her artistic practice with motherhood since the age of 23. Her work focuses on the encounter with the other and on how this encounter questions identities and properties. The fundament of her artistic practice is walking.

She produces site-specific, long durational performances and game-based devices, videos, and writing. As an artist and researcher, she uses movement, choreography, writing, and filming practices as forms of resistance to fixed notions of identity, to institutions, and as tools for institutional critique. She elaborates strategies to decolonize the body from all that is taken for granted (due to culture, history, narration, and all that is considered knowledge). She calls this form of resistance “contemplative activism”: a research into decolonizing, anti-capitalistic practices for the body in relation to the landscapes they are immersed in—bodies transitioning through the encounter with the other.

From 2021 to 2024, she has been developing the research project THE FOREST_ (with the support of Flanders State of Art, nadine, wpzimmer, c-takt, base milano, Indisciplinarte), which has resulted in two book editions of ENTRARE NEL BOSCO / TO ENTER THE FOREST (Nero Editions), the long durational performance the forest_ (premiered at Almost Summer Festival Buda), and the performances CALLISTO’S ROOM (a 4-to-1 performance) and CALLISTO’S WALK (a soundwalk).

Lucia Palladino’s residency is part of the exchange between Hangar’s research line Practicable and the BUDA Arts Centre in Kortrijk, Belgium.

 

Credits: Have You Seen This Place