Dramaturgies of Moving Laterally

Description

As a response to the last question of the workshop abstract “What strategies can be found that undo existing normative conceptions or explore new modes of exchange and thought within artistic work as well as within art’s institutions and infrastructures?”, I probe and propose an approach to dramaturgy as a practice of moving laterally, sideways. In the research project I undertake in collaboration with Dr. Efrosini Protopapa, we approach dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. What are the doings, knowings and embodyings of dance and performance practice, alongside the complementary movements of undoing, unknowing and disembodying? Moving laterally refuses the centered, the linear and the directed, possibilizing decentring, incidentalness, inconsistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. It is also sometimes a way to act counter-productively. Admittedly, in western institutions and organizations, moving/thinking is mostly expected to be progressive and quantifiable and laterality is usually associated with thinking creatively or ‘out of the box’, thus rarely contributing to decentering actions thereafter. This contribution draws on thinking with recent performance and other case-studies to raise and politicise dramaturgical questions around attention, (in)visibility and unruliness. The format of the session also includes lateral dramaturgies in the moment of the encounter with the other participants, and proposes participation and attention to the event through lateral operations.

Period	14 Nov 2024
Event title	Shifting Dramaturgies in Transmodern Worlds
Event type	Workshop
Location	Bochum, GermanyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International