Learning as Movement

5 April 2023, 17h00 - 19h00 CET
Speakers: Silvia Bottiroli and Sarah Vanhee
Moderator: Vânia Rodrigues

With Learning as Movement as a motto for the session, Silvia Bottiroli and Sarah Vanhee in the company of Vânia Rodrigues, talked, among other topics, about their processes and practices in developing and curating artistic work marked by the participation of people outside of the artistic community and how to navigate those situations.

Silvia Bottiroli, PhD, is a curator, researcher, organizer, and educator in the field of performing arts. Since 2018 she has been the artistic director of DAS Theatre in Amsterdam. Between 2012 and 2016, she directed the Santarcangelo Festival and in 2018 curated the program The May Events for KunstenFestivalDesArts in Brussels and Vooruit in Ghent. She is interested in the intersections between theoretical research, curatorial practices, and education. In these fields she has written numerous articles, focusing in particular on the politics of performativity and spectatorship. She has (co)curated artistic, discursive, and educational platforms, collaborating among others with Aleppo in Brussels, the Homo Novus Festival in Riga, the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and Gent University. Since 2011 she has been teaching Methodology, Critique, and Research in the Arts at Bocconi University in Milan.

Sarah Vanhee (1980, Oostende, Belgium) is an artist, performer and author. After graduating from the Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2007, her transdisciplinary work travels between civil spaces and institutional art fields. She worked in open fields, prisons, private living rooms, theatres, public canvases, corporate meeting rooms, etc.  Recent works include, amongst others, bodies of knowledge (school), undercurrents (intervention), collected screams (lecture performance), Unforetold (stage performance), The Making of Justice (film), Oblivion (stage performance), Untitled (meetings in private houses), Lecture For Every One (series of intrusions), The C-Project (artist novel and work in public space).

Vânia Rodrigues (1979, Porto, Portugal) has a PhD in Artistic Studies – Theatrical and Performative Studies from the University of Coimbra, with the thesis “MODUS OPERANDI – For a redefinition of production and management practices in the performing arts” (with Distinction and Praise). Graduated in European Studies from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and a Master in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management from the City University of London (with Distinction), in 2009. Vânia has worked as a manager, curator and consultant for several cultural organizations, both in the institutional sphere and with independent structures in the areas of strategic planning, cultural programming and management, project design and international partnerships.