Order it at: https://circadian.co/product/risking-the-self/ This book has been written over the course of two different seasons and the reader can probably still notice the fluctuation of temperatures as the pages are turned. It contains the words from both winter and spring. Implicitly it tells the story of a transition, or, rather exorcism. Possessed by the …
Dancing the problem refers to a circular research methodology of developing an artistic practice from the tension that exists between the devil and the symbol, between the involuntary and the voluntary, between the order and chaos, between sense and nonsense. What is your problem as an artist means to understand which tensions are you exploring. … Continue reading
A research on involuntary dances. The affinity between dance and danger. Since 2013 I have been researching the affinity between dance and danger and how dance can be the embodiment of danger. The practice of “dancing the problem” is the result of understanding choreography as creating conditions for involuntary movements to emerge, or, in other … Continue reading
June 2022 at HZT Berlin (Inter-University Center for Dance) The premise of this lecture is that we are made to believe in ambition because ambition is something good. There is a benevolent mantra that tells us “be ambitious”, but, what if ambition would have been politicized and ideologized? My attempt is to unfold some ethical … Continue reading
Written by Maryna Makarenko and Diego Agulló. Illustrations by Ronja Polzin. Published by Circadian. This book is a kaleidoscope of texts written by two lovers during the insomnia winter nights in Berlin and it is an attempt to give form to the experiences and findings that we collected during the nocturnal research combining essays with … Continue reading
Published by Circadian. Questions to open the portal into parallel lives. This book is comprised of the hypothetical questions that propose to imagine alternate realities. Best practiced with a partner, every question can be used as a conversation starter to explore a different version of yourself and of each other. By Dmitry Paranyushkin and Diego … Continue reading
The drama of dramaturgy: a contradictory equilibrium between nonsense and meaning making Notes from the ongoing never ending practice of life Across chaos and cosmos In this text, dramaturgy is proposed as the art of navigating across chaos and cosmos (the nonsense of chaos and the cosmos of meaning making, not only intellectual meaning but … Continue reading
Nov 18-20 2018 at Kraftwerk Berlin. What do we mean by social transformation in the context of technological development? What kind of life trajectories are being legitimized and what are the driving forces and motivations that yield into such a process? The REVISION Summit 2018 event successfully connected over 1200 researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, scientists and … Continue reading
Lo que define a un evento es justo su poder para partir la historia en dos. Hacer un corte sin escrúpulos y escindir la realidad en un antes y un después. Y la realidad actual es la realidad que es porque se impone, y no porque se propone. Lo que nos está pasando no es … Continue reading
Diego Agulló trabajó en Octubre de 2019 junto a artistas locales o participantes de cualquier otra disciplina para desarrollar un proceso colectivo de investigación artística y filosofía práctica en torno a la pregunta: ¿cuál es la afinidad entre el problema, el bailar, el diablo y la balística? En este laboratorio, Diego introdujo una práctica que … Continue reading
Kuba is sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage in a meditation position (I assume he is meditating). Dressed a little bit mystically, but definitely eclectic. Apart from a leather jacket, scarves tied at the wrists of his hands, jewelry, he is wearing a black robe in dervish style. There is silence … Continue reading
THEOROS by Diego Agulló 