Angela Alves
Resting and quitting as a resistant practice
Programme change: Due to illness, the Input & Exchange Sick Times: Resting and quitting as a resistant practice will take place without Angela Alves’ presence. The content was originally pre-produced by Angela Alves in such a way that the input would work as an audio performance even without her presence. The subsequent workshop “I won’t be there.” Cripping Cancellations and Refusals has been cancelled and will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
Resting is difficult. Within the precarious and performance-oriented structures in which we create art, it is particularly difficult to consciously pause. This is because exploitative behavior is unconditionally assumed for success and supposed professionalism. With the input Sick Times: Resting and quitting as a resistant practice and the workshop “I won’t be there.” Cripping Cancellations and Refusals, together with Angela Alves, we will question familiar working structures and forms of collaboration that are often declared to be incontestable, but which make healthy and inclusive work almost impossible.
Programme
12:00 Early Boarding
13:00 Input & Exchange Sick Times: Resting and quitting as a resistant practice
15:00 Workshop “I won’t be there.” Cripping Cancellations and Refusals – Cancelled
Sick Times: Resting and quitting as a resistant practice
Angela Alves describes herself as an “expert in the practice of resting and quitting” and explores the socio-political dimension of rest. From the perspective of chronic illness, the choreographer, scientist and performer looks at various (choreographic) concepts of resting and the extent to which resting and quitting can be understood as a crip strategy and practice of resistance. What are the challenges of resting – what are we resting for? And what does allyship and solidarity mean in order to make resting possible for diverse groups of people?
Sick Times: Resting and quitting as a resistant practice takes the form of an audio performance. With alternative seating and reclining options and a sound concept, a space is created in which the visible speaker position is decentralized and thus content can be experienced equally by visually impaired and blind people. After an input from Angela Alves, there will be plenty of space and time to talk and share experiences.
“I won’t be there.” Cripping Cancellations and Refusals – Cancelled
The workshop “I won’t be there.” Cripping Cancellations and Refusals is dedicated to “saying no” as a resistant and subversive practice. Why is “saying no” and showing boundaries often so unpleasant and negatively connoted in our everyday (working) lives? How do I manage to perceive, recognize and communicate individual boundaries? And what role does the other person's reaction play in this? With the help of the porch sitting method, the workshop will look at various strategies that make it possible to say no in a self-empowering way and explore the anti-ableist potential of stopping and saying no.
Angela Alves lives in Berlin with a chronic neurological illness and works as a choreographer, dancer and cultural worker at the interface of art, body and politics. In her work, she questions dominant social narratives of “healthy” and “sick” and brings her sensitive and intelligent nervous system to bear in her exploration of voids and contradictions. From the perspective of “lived experience”, she creates anti-ableist performances and sound installations as well as a cultural practice of mutual care and solidarity, which Angela Alves trains in collaboration with others.
Angela Alves studied dance at ArtEZ (NL) and dance studies at the FU Berlin. Since October 2023 she has been working as an artistic collaborator in Prof. Claire Cunningham’s project team at the Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), where she researches, teaches and practices neurocrip-feminist practices such as resting, cessation and pleasure.
Registration
Registration for the workshop is possible via the ticket button, via WhatsApp or by calling Katrin Brehm on +43 676 587 8723.
Accessibility
The workshop takes place in a room on the ground floor and is barrier-free.
Registration for assistants, accompanying persons and assistance dogs is possible via the registration form as well as at brehm@brut-wien.at or via WhatsApp +43 676 587 8723.
We offer a pick-up service from the nearby tram and bus stations so that everyone can find their way to brut nordwest. Please let us know at brehm@brut-wien.at or by phone and WhatsApp on +43 676 587 8723 and we will be happy to pick you up.
Tactile guidance system
Alternative seating and reclining options
If you have any questions, please contact Katrin Brehm (brehm@brut-wien.at and +43 676 587 8723).
Dates & Tickets
March 2025
Pay as you can on site. Registration via the ticket button * Programme change: Workshop cancelled
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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Downloads
Abendprogramm Angela Alves (PDF)
