Decolonization Praxis & the Art of Talking Disability is a dance piece which flirts with other art media, for a matter of taste but also accessibility. It tells stories of immigration, physical pain, ableism and sickness, and how these subjects intersect when your condition of existence is the one of a person coming from the Global South and living in the Coloniser´s Lands. Each disabled body is an archive of the experiences we crip people go through, and culture also plays an aspect on it. With this project we hope to highlight some of these features.​
Choreography, Production, Performance: Anajara L. Amarante
Performance: Nara Rosseto
Video Performance: Manoela Delgano, Grazielle Leuchtenberger
Host and technical Assistance: Suzanne Stavast
Production assistance: Uli Pilwax
Video artist: Marc Philip Gabriel
Photographer: Ana Cichowicz
ANAJARA AMARANTE is a chronically ill, queer Brazilian artist. Their main media of work is the moving body. Their professional interests are personal and political: queer, dissident bodies, marginalized communities and art practices. Their main artistic practice is concentrated in the field of performing arts (focus choreography), with previous formations in Biology and Communication. As a Brazilian living in Europe, Anajara is interested in immigrant people, the construction of their identities, and post-colonialism, as well as the construction of joy, inclusion, and diversity.
NARA ROSETTO is an intermedia artist from Brazil. She is currently in the first year of her Master in Fine Arts at OPorto University in Porto, Portugal. She’s also a performer, poet and filmmaker. Next to her specialization in Brazilian History and Culture she holds a BA in Architecture by Mackenzie University at São Paulo, Brazil. Her research is motivated by the diagnosis and experience of an illness characterized by chronic pain. Through diaries, photo, performance and textiles she seeks to create collections on the vulnerability of the human condition. Here she is especially interested in the women's body, in pieces that portray everyday situations, revealing both its fragility and invisibility.
SUZANNE STAVAST is a nondisabled Berlin-based artist with a BA in Anthropology. Their interest goes around performance art to translate their observations about society. They are the host of this piece.
