Anno Bolender (they/them)

A workshop performance

How do we leave traces? In others, in community, and also in the public sphere? How can we transmit knowledge between generations – as a dialogue? What supports these conversations?

In the tradition of queer thinkers like Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich and adrienne maree brown, the philosophy of body perception like Jean-Luc Nancy, as well as drawing on the work of dance artists Emilyn Claid and Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, I want to examine how collective resilience can be fostered in marginalised bodies through the power of listening, archiving and a shared embodied experience.

  • Close up of a face with dark skin colour, the eyes are closed. A hand is brushing softly over the cheek.
  • Two people, one blurred in the foreground and the other in focus in the background. Both wear pink clothes. The person in the foreground has grey hair and wears glasses, the person in the background appears younger.
  • A dark green setting which suggests a living room. Three older women* stand next to one younger person. They look at each other and smile or laugh.
  • A dancer’s upper body wearing a rose-coloured vest over a pink shirt with dark green plaid trousers in the style of the 60s. The dancer has their hands in the air and images of china plates are projected over them and the wall behind.