Dialogues are exchanges and sharings between the FORUM artists and curators and their selected guests inviting to consider current society through the lens of their embodied thought practices.
Wednesday 17th September
11am - 1pm
Salle Conférence
Hospitalities – Opening Gathering
*With the FORUM artists/collectives– Origina Bomber Crew (Brazil), devynn emory (Etats-Unis), Marrugeku (Australia), Fangas Nayaw (Taiwan) et Idio Chichava (Mozambique) et les curateurices invité.e.s- Angela Conquet (Australia), River Lin (Taiwan), Angela Mattox (USA), Nayse Lopez (Brazil), Quito Tembe (Mozambique) *
The FORUM artists, together with their curators, invite you to discover orientations of practice and of imagination that mobilise senses and sense-abilities offering concrete pathways into active forms of presence, of listening, rooted in deeply ancestral and somatic knowledges. Taken together, they represent specific ecosomatics for resisting and for responding to the current societal crises we are experiencing. They are invitations as much as they are provocations to think and feel the world through a shared embodied with-ness. Through these artists’ offerings, you are being hosted within new ecologies of relations welcoming you to recalibrate perception, attention, and intention. The Forum will open with a Gathering where each invited artist/collective will briefly introduce their invitations in dialogue with the FORUM curators.
Thursday 18th September
12pm - 1.30pm
Salle Conférence
Dance, Climate and Contested Land - Marrugeku (Australia)
Marrugeku’s co-artistic directors Dalisa Pigram (Yawuru/ Bardi/Malay/Filipino) and Rachael Swain (Celtic-settler) propose to share methodologies to embody and investigate the implications of climate justice for choreography and dramaturgy: Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain will introduce Marrugeku’s approach to dance and cultural dramaturgies in contested land that underpins their body of work. Together they will share Marrugeku’s intercultural choreographic truth telling practices co-created by diverse Indigenous and settler artists working together on contested land. They will introduce working through a diversity of platforms and methods to activate the interface of dance, land, colonial aftermaths, resource extraction, Indigenous knowledges and diverse communities, in order to make visible alternative futures.
Friday 19th September
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm
Salle Conférence
Hospitalities as Responsibilities
Forum Curators in dialogue with Tiago Guedes, Artistic Director of the Biennale de la danse
In this conversation, the Forum curators – Angela Conquet, Angela Mattox, River Lin, Nayse Lopez et Quito Tembe - will respond to their own provocation underpinning the FORUM and relying on the semantic ambiguity of the Latin origins of hosting meaning both ‘hosting’ and ‘being hosted’. If we were to imagine a form of hospitality that implies a simultaneous hosting and being hosted, what would this double posture enable? Or demand? What modes of responsibility, of accountability, would this require to be able to embrace the strange/r, the foreign/er, the unfamiliar?
Saturday 20th September
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm
Salle Conférence
(Be)coming Ecosomatics
Emma Bigé (France) and Thomas F DeFrantz (USA) avec Philipa Rothfield (Australia)
A dialogue inviting to mobilise senses and sense-abilities by offering concrete pathways into active forms of presence and of listening, rooted in specific bodily imaginaries such as afro-futurism and ecosomatic practices. They also suggest a form of response-ability to understand and protect these relational ecologies summoning a recalibration of both our intention and attention.
Sunday 21st September
12pm - 1.30pm
Salle Conférence
Closing dialogues : Who will be there to sing the rain song? History, Indigenous Land and Changing Weather Patterns
June Oscar (Australia) and Françoise Vergès (France) in dialogue with Dalisa Pigram (Australie) and Angela Conquet (France-Australia)
Bunuba cultural leader and long-term advisor to Marrugeku in the Central Kimberley, Dr June Oscar will discuss history, geology and climate futures for the Bunuba people who face extreme flooding events that have altered the landscape. June will outline the cultural hosting of Marrugeku’s experimental choreographic processes in a 300-million year old Devonian reef on Bunuba lands and the complexities of climate futures in colonial aftermaths.
Political theorist Françoise Vergès will close the FORUM program in dialogue with its coordinator, Angela Conquet, by bringing an European perspective on urgencies linked to climate disasters and decolonial processes and the role artists can play in activating a collective response-ability.