Beside efficiency – from structures to ethics (and back) Foregrounding the relational nature of practice
A conversation with Alice Chauchat
Presented by the Royal Institute of Art and Council
Alice Chauchat is a dance practitioner based in Berlin since 2001. She took part in the development of numerous choreographic projects and platforms for knowledge production and exchange in the performing arts: the artist-run and informal institution PA-F, the open-source internet platform for the production and circulation of dance artists’ discourse everybodystoolbox.net, the open collective praticable for the sharing of visibility and physical practices as resources for individual choreographic works, and the structure for the circulation and contextualisation of dance practices, founded by Ellen Söderhult and Eleanor Bauer, nobody’s business.
She also co-directed Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (2010-2012), a centre for artistic research in the outskirts of Paris, together with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Grégory Castéra.
Since 2014, under the umbrella title Togethering she’s been developing a choreographic research on the ethics of intimacy across radical difference. She was a guest professor in HZT Berlin (2017-2020) and at Giessen Justus-Liebig University (2018). She is now engaging a doctoral research on relational subjectivities in dance.
Collective Agenda is the public program of the Collective Practice Research Course, a trans-disciplinary Post-Master course on collective practices facilitated by Grégory Castéra at the Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, in collaboration with Council and in dialogue with Imani Jacqueline Brown, Filipa Cesar, Sónia Vaz Borges & Sana N’Hada, Valentina Desideri, Fernando García-Dory, Mint (Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari), Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona & Elizabeth Povinelli, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga & Werker Collective.
C.P.R.C. participants are Jamie Allan, Björnsonova (Tamara Antonijević, Nik Timková and Zuzana Žabková), Salomé Burstein, Nicolas Couturier, Margherita Huntley, Tony Karlsson Savci, Athanasios Kritsakis, Alen Ksoll, Ko-Fan Lin, Robertas Narkus, Paz Ponce Perez-Bustamante, Sina Ribak, Natalia Skoczylas, Sabina Enéa Téari and Troja (Emma Örn, Pao Zuccotti).