My artistic research model revolves around the themes of risk, danger, problems and crisis. I believe that art is a laboratory for experienceable knowledge production which mission is to push the boundaries of what we know and understand. For more than ten years I have been developing my own artistic research methodology. It is called … Continue reading
Invited by Eliza Trefas and Andreea David to the festival “Fictions, My Body” I facilitated A 5 days laboratory researching the intimate affinity between language, embodiment and event. I shared my methodology for artistic research and a series of practices such as the chair game and the torpedo fish so each participant could get inspired … Continue reading
The practice of “dancing the problem” is the result of understanding choreography as creating conditions for involuntary movements to emerge, or, in other words, dance is not the result of the good will of the dancer but rather the outcome of encountering a problem. How can a problem make you move? The Festival was curated by … Continue reading
Order here: https://circadian.co/product/lucky-disasters-between-the-mistake-and-the-miracle/ On disastrology, unlucky stars, paradoxes of fate seducing chaos and other impossible love stories. This book researches the enigmatic alliance with the whims of chance to attract disasters that bring an end to certain aspects of our lives. Sometimes the end never ends, sometimes we become entangled in a perpetual cycle of … Continue reading
During the frame of “becoming Archive” at Ponderosa, I facilitated a workshop on writing scores for an unknown future. Thinking the relation between a practice and writing: writing at the service of archiving.What do you want to leave behind for others to find? What does it mean that a book or a text is telling us … Continue reading
May 2023. In Collaboration with Mykyta Kravchenko and Soma Majsternia. Dancing the Problem is a research project where dance and performance are the main artistic tools to articulate problems in contexts of violence, war, or crisis. Since 2015 I have researched the relation between danger and dance in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Germany, Korea and currently … Continue reading
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
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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
THEOROS by Diego Agulló 