Disobedient Bodies & Fugitive Aesthetics is a workshop exploring the intersection between performance, social justice and somatics. We will explore and play through the lenses of somatic abolitionism, speculative fiction and disobedient performance practices. We will experience different relationships to time and space as a way to imagine alternative ways of relating to the world, being in the world and reproducing the world. Based on non-Western concepts like trans-corporeality and travelling worlds we will practise decentring our human gaze, give agency to more-than-human bodies, and practise our capacity for merging or existing in two or more realities at the same time.

The sessions will be playgrounds where our capacity for radical imagination and speculative fiction is expanded. From looking into legacies of decolonial and anti-colonial Art-making, to embodied practices with the potential to transform our sense of normality into absurd, magic, protest or mythical landscapes where objects/elements can serve as liminal spaces, the session will give us renewed narratives of how we can perceive and exist in the world. It is an invitation to re-storying and re-worlding while decentring the human extractivist and individualist oriented gaze. This workshop is facilitated by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla a.k.a La ChicaScratch.