Workshop for participatory performance with Rita Westwood

#1_pre-apocalyptic post-silence is a collaborative and participatory installation-performance that invites participants and the audience to reflect on Audre Lorde’s challenging question: “What tyrannies do you swallow, day after day, and make them your own, until you sicken and die of them, always in silence?” and to question their role and complicity in silence and silencing as both oppressor and oppressed. By making silence visible and shared, it is possible to create a breach of liberation and constantly recall Audre Lorde’s phrase: “your silence will not protect you”.
The workshop (3 days, 3 hours per day) is organised around a series of explorations of silence, being silenced and silencing, through movement, voice, the creation of soundscapes, writing and graphic expression. The workshops will produce performative, visual and audio materials that will be exhibited as a performance-installation.

WORKSHOP dates: 16 & 17 april 18:00-21:00 | 18 April 11:00-14:00

PERFORMANCE date: 19 april | 19:00-20:00

for whom: cis women, trans and non-binary people

participants: 12-15 max.

where: Dos Mares, 5 rue Vian, Marseille

FREE workshop

more info: ritaesousa@gmail.com

about the artist:

Rita Westwood (b. 1983, Lisbon, she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher and a mapper of the arts and pedagogy: she works with material objects (through self-publishing, collage and visual landscapes) and with her own body in performance and movement research. She completed her Master’s degree in Gender Studies at Utrecht University in 2023 and her Basic Somatic Training at the Somatische Akademie in Berlin in 2024. Her research interests revolve around the exploration, practice and imagination of other forms of knowledge within and outside academia, establishing a dialogue between the body and Art. In a broader and more cross-cutting sense, her life’s motto is based on the reclamation of pleasure, agency and the micropolitics of bodies under colonial-capitalist domination.