Hidden stage
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A lustful, passionate concatenation. A hybrid of vibratory intensities. An assemblage of the human and the non-human, the organic and the inorganic, activated by multidirectional desires and impulses. It is all a proliferation of moving and widespread, unpredictable erogenous zones. Aughterlony's performance triggers experiences and imaginations of corporeality and agent matter in complicity with the paths opened up by trans-feminist, neo-materialist thought from Barad to Bennett. How does the stage question man's central role? Can there be a dance for non-human bodies? What forces inhabit the stage and take shape? Flesh trunk rope shell, matter vibrates, hot and sentient, even where we see only the inanimate. Everything we know turns wild, laughing and climaxing. A countersexual and non-anthropocentric practice.
Ilenia Caleo is a performer, activist and independent researcher. She has been working as an actress, performer and dramaturg on the contemporary stage, collaborating with various different companies and directors, since 2000. Trained as a philosopher by training, she produced a research doctorate on the body and the performative between performance studies and political philosophy at Rome's Università La Sapienza.