Everybody is in need of care
with Chiara Bersani & Giulia Traversi
Artist Chiara Bersani and curator and producer Giulia Traversi have been collaborating for nearly ten years — and care work based on interdependence has been a big part of their time spent together. Drawing upon more-than-human and intersectional feminist accounts of care, Chiara and Giulia open up a discussion on the many questions their joint care work has raised.
This conversation is part of the Series of More-Than-Human Encounters, in collaboration with VUB/Crosstalks.
• Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and author active in the field of performing arts, research theatre and contemporary dance. As an interpreter and as a director/choreographer, she moves through different languages and visions. Her works, presented in international circuits, are born as creations in dialogue with spaces of different nature and are mainly aimed at a ‘neighbor’ to the scene.
• While still at university, Giulia Traversi specialised in theatre criticism by working as an editor for the Italian Atti and Sipari magazine. In 2014, they were an organiser and promoter at the NID Italian dance platform and from 2015 to 2017, they worked at the promotion and communication office of the Teatro Nazionale della Toscana. In 2017, they directed their first festival at the Teatro di Via Verdi in Vicopisano and they also created the Festival La torre Starta, a queer festival in Pisa. They now work as a manager and curator of the performer and choreographer Chiara Bersani.
presented by Kaaitheater, Crosstalks VUB, Rosendal Teater & The environmental humanities research group at NTNU
