What memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves, pasts, and futures? Through Embodied Temporalities—Tracing the memories our bodies hold, the core artistic work of this Perform Europe project, cultural practitioners explore identities, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic, decolonial and queer perspectives. Embodied Temporalities is a research, archiving, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi.
The partners behind this project will provide opportunities for mutually benefitting collaborations, from collective healing and empowerment to increasing the understanding of intersectional realities lived in the diaspora. The touring process of this project will be rooted in community engagement through a residency, conversations and localized performances at the SHOUT Festival in the UK. In the Czech Republic, the cultural center Dafa Puppet Theater will offer caring, non-gentrifying cultural and artistic mediation with local communities, and will host live performances, screenings and local conversations at the Liv'in Festival 2022. PPLG – Performing Across Borders, Greece, will curate nurturing exchanges between performers and refugees in empowering artist workshops and performances through trauma-informed facilitation.
Under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi, Embodied Temporalities includes two touring projects by the following lead artists: