Domestic Anarchism:
Köket (The Kitchen)

Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Information

Times: 10am to 5pm


Tickets: Free – booking required


Running Time: 6 hours, including 1 hour lunch break


Age Recommendation: Intended for adults, but children are welcome


This workshop takes place in person in our Recreation Room

Is it possible to abolish the family and still dance as a group? Join artists and dancers Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen for a workshop exploring how artistic practice can inspire different ways to organise social reproduction.

Domestic Anarchism is a production and piece of dance research developed through the ongoing collaboration of Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen – artists, dancers, and co-caretakers of Penélope (born 2021). Using dance as a tool for sensing and sense-making, the pair explore how care and solidarity might be shared beyond the boundaries of “the family”, and how such redistributions can reshape artistic practice.

During this workshop, Andrea and Adriano will discuss their collaborative methodologies and open up a conversation that traces questions, imaginings and tactics from the group. They will propose drawing, writing and score-based movement practices to collectively metabolize and annotate the conversations as they unfold.

No previous artistic (dance, writing, drawing) experience is required.

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This workshop is part of Open Research: How to be Many Mothers?

Biographies

Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Andrea Zavala Folache has a transdisciplinary approach to dance informed by her/their training in visual arts, painting and choreography. Apart from engaging in long-term collaborative creations and performance experiments, such as Domestic Anarchism, Lands of Concert and Performing Arts Forum, Andrea is interested in questioning art school, teaching at SNDO in Amsterdam, and co-directing ISAC in Brussels. In recent years she/they have been showing and performing in mostly European contexts, such as Bâtard Festival, Les Urbaines, TanzQuartier Wien, Conde Duque, La Casa Encendida, Kaai Theater, De Singel, Brakke Grond and FLAM, amongst others.

Adriano Wilfert Jensen uses dance and choreography to analyse and produce conditions for relations. Since graduating from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam they have worked with dance as a set of knowledge and tools that can be used for making dance performances, but also for making publications, curating and more. After some years of touring internationally, he is working with Andrea on developing a methodology for international collaboration in dance that is more artistically, environmentally and relationally sustainable, and provides a good enough environment for his toddler. Recent engagements include: feelings and mixed feelings, dance performances; Galerie, an immaterial gallery and publisher for immaterial artworks; Performing Arts Forum, co-coordination of a self-organised residency; Dog Days Discourse, a peer-to-peer publication on dance; Kitchen 3, a risograph print workshop without an owner.

Credits

The workshop Köket is created and facilitated by Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Andrea Zavala Folache.

The project of Domestic Anarchism is created in collaboration and cohabitation with HaYoung, Alissa Šnaider, Paolo Gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman, Malcolm-x Betts, Jennifer Lacey, Lauren Bakst, and Oda Brekke.

Co-produced by and with venue support from Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), Lieu D’Arts Contemporain (Sigean), School for Temporary Liveness at The Kitchen (New York City), MDT (Stockholm), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Kanuti Gildi Saal (Tallinn).

Supported by Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, William Demant Fonden, and Jan van Eyck Academie.

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This workshop takes place in person in our Recreation Room. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before the event detailing important information about your visit.

This workshop will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the workshop at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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Part of Open Research: How to be Many Mothers?

In an exciting new partnership with Kaaitheater (Brussels), BAC expands the Open Research programme with a curated series of talks, workshops and performances exploring mothering, family, and care beyond the norm.

This artistic research program offers multiple entry points, ranging from playful speculative thinking to the creation of new scenarios for (chosen) family dynamics. It shares imaginative strategies for combining (co-)parenting with artistic practice, while also challenging and unmasking idealized notions of motherhood.

 

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