Less-Than- Human
with Amanda Piña, Paz Rojo & Victoria Pérez Royo
Artists and researchers Amanda Piña, Paz Rojo, and Victoria Pérez Royo find each other around practices of decentralizing the classical-western human condition. They boldly propose the less-than-human, instead of adding new and extra attributions. This conversation took place in the context of the Series of More-than-human Encounters, in collaboration with VUB/Crosstalks.
• Victoria Pérez Royo is a performing arts researcher and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy (Unizar) and has taught internationally. Member of the research association ARTEA, she has devised and coordinated practice-based research contexts at art centers like Reina Sofia Museum, La Casa Encendida and Matadero (Madrid).
• Amanda Piña is a Chilean-Mexican artist living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her work embodies the political and social power of movement, grounded in indigenous forms of knowledge and world-making/maintaining practices. A versatile artist, working through choreographic and dance research, creating and curating performances, educational frameworks, and writing and editing publications around what she refers to as Endangered Human Movement Practices. Her work is concerned with the colonisation of the arts and is to be found within performing and visual arts contexts. Her new creation EXÓTICA will be co-presented by Kaaitheater at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, at the beginning of June.
• Paz Rojo holds a BA Degree in Choreography from the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam University of the Arts) and a doctoral degree in Philosophy in Fine Arts in Performative and Media Practices from the Stockholm University of the Arts. She has a long trajectory teaching, organizing seminars, conferences, lectures and supervising artistic projects in European art programs as well as in independent artistic initiatives in Europe and Latin America.
presented by Kaaitheater, VUB Crosstalks, Artea - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha & La Casa Encendida
