GIORGIA OHANESIAN NARDIN | PLEASURE BODY

from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm

Pleasure Body is a workshop.

The workshop offers itself as a space for facilitating practices and conversations associated with pleasure and rest, exploring the attritions and the multiple meanings enshrined within those words.
Pleasure Body questions the language around care work, posturing as a critical space and a space for exploring such words as well-being, health, healing and recovery.
The somatic proposals of Pleasure Body focus on rest as a practice of resistance.
During the workshop, Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin will interweave her studies as a mover with certain movement practices proper to traditions from the regions of Southeast Asia and of North Africa (SWANA Regions – decolonial acronym replacing the term Middle East), focusing her attention in particular on the areas of the pelvis and the hips.
The workshop has a maximum capacity of 20 people and is open to everyone. You do not need to be familiar with the languages and styles of dance or movement in order to take part.
Priority will be given to queer, trans, non-binary, black and racialised applicants.
The workshop is in Italian. Translation into sign language is not available.

Informations on the space:

• all the spaces in La Pelanda are wheelchair accessible;
• the changing rooms and bathrooms used for the workshop are gender neutral;
• the area used for the workshop will be a low-stimulation space, thus comprising soft lighting and low-volume sound. Essences will also be used;
• we recommend taking a rapid antigen test before coming to the workshop.

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an artist of Armenian descent based out of Milan who works in the fields of dance and performance. Her research comprises paedagogical and perfomance events focusing on the experience of pleasure as a form of resistance against systemic oppression, in which she adopts a transfeminist approach to the study of somatic practices. Raised in the context of dance, she plays out her work in movements/video/text/choreography/sound/meetings, developing narratives on hostility, survival strategies, rest, attrition, sensuality and care.