Lucia Palladino

Intercanvi Practicable Hangar - BUDA Art Centre

May 2025

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).