{"id":1740,"date":"2024-09-09T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bit-teatergarasjen.dev.kodeks.no\/program\/discourse-going-sideways-with-danja-burchard-epona-hamdan-de\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:54:24","slug":"discourse-going-sideways-with-danja-burchard-epona-hamdan-de","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/en\/program\/discourse-going-sideways-with-danja-burchard-epona-hamdan-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Sideways with Danja Burchard and Epona Hamdan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <section class=\"hero transparent no-padding-top  no-profile\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper full rg-50 rg-s-15\">\n            \n                             \n                    <div class=\"hero-image start-1 end-12 grid\"><div class=\"image-wrapper start-1 end-12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Sideways-e1729161845394.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div>                        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"event-info section-padding\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper side-padding rg-50\">\n            \n            <div class=\"section-header start-1 end-7 star-s-1 end-s-12 grid rg-20\">\n                Discourse | Free | Oktoberdans 2024                <h1>Going Sideways with Danja Burchard and Epona Hamdan<\/h1>                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"event-dates start-1 end-12 grid-12\">\n                              <div class=\"eventdate-fields start-1 grid rg-20 acs\">\n                                                              \n                                        <p class=\"date\">Date<\/p>\n                    <p class=\"time\">Time<\/p>\n                    <p class=\"place\">Venue<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"eventdate-list start-2 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12\">\n                    \n                        <ul class=\"dates grid-m-3 grid-s-1 grid-5 start-1 end-12 rg-60 rg-s-40\">\n                                                    <li class=\"col grid\">\n                                <div class=\"eventlist-info grid grid-s-6 rg-20 acs\">\n                                    <div class=\"eventdate-fields-mob start-s-1 grid rg-20 acs\">\n                                                                                  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                                                                                <p>Date<\/p>\n                                        <p>Time<\/p>\n                                        <p>Venue<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"start-s-2 end-s-6 grid rg-20 acs jcs\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"event-date\"><span class=\"event-day\">Friday 18.<\/span> <span class=\"event-month\">October<\/span> 2024<\/p>\n                                        <p class=\"event-time\">16:30 &#8211; 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Through shared food, conversations, embodiment practice and tarot we want to open the space for our situated knowledges.<br \/>\nGoing Sideways will bring together voices from across the cultural landscape\u2014artists, activists, dramaturgs, cultural producers, and audiences\u2014 to reflect on practices that explore and work around the questions:<br \/>\nHow do we engage in current developments within the cultural sector and beyond? What are our observations, longings and dreams? Do we have access to our dreams? What can we imagine, and which strategies did we already test and work with?<br \/>\nBe it through food, that links us to our different grounds, tarot cards, that invite honest conversations or embodiment practices, that welcome our subconscious knowledge into the space: the knowledge that is shared will blur personal experience with methodologies and invites us to meet in the speculative, while critically departing from the multitudes of our nows.<br \/>\nAll Organizing is Science Fiction &#8211; says Adreanne Maree Brown.<br \/>\nWhat are the stories, that are required of us now?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <div class=\"start-7 end-11  start-s-1 end-s-12 grid rg-20 standard acs\">\n                    <p>There will be two formats at Oktoberdans: a sound work and a discursive series. The sound work is a voice collage with cultural practitioners showing different perspectives in an installation at HKS. The two-day discursive series consists of workshops, meals and embodiment exercises. <em>Going Sideways <\/em>is curated by Epona Hamdan and Danja Burchard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday October 18th <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16:30 Introduction<br \/>\n16:45 Embodiment Practice with Natascha Anahita Nassir Shahnian<br \/>\n17:30 Performative Dinner with Alessandra Pomerico and La Saula<br \/>\n18:15 &#8211; 19:30 \/ 20:00 Start Eating &amp; Hangout<br \/>\n20:00 Open Bar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday October 19th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 Coffee + Welcome<br \/>\n10:30 Embodiment Practice with Natascha Anahita Nassir-Shahnian<br \/>\n11:15 THESE CARDS ARE NOT MAGIC with Bek Berger<br \/>\n12:45 Closing with Natascha<br \/>\n13:00 Closing with Danja &amp; Epona<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-content section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 rg-s-20 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12\"><h2>Special invite for a Collective Dinner<\/h2><\/div>                                        <div class=\"start-2 end-6  start-s-1 end-s-12 grid rg-20 standard acs\"><p>As part of the program Sideways at Oktoberdans Festival, we invite you to a kitchen conversation and special dinner on October 18th at Hordaland Kunstsenter from 17:30 to 20:00h. <\/p>\n<p>We imagined this dinner as a space to share our stories, ingredients, questions, and desires, an occasion to come together in convivial ways to co-create a space for reflections and brave conversations.<\/p>\n<p>What is urgent in this very time-space we are sharing?<br \/>\nWhat are the most pressing questions calling for our attention and for our collective actions?<br \/>\nAnd is there even a \u201cwe\u201d we can speak from?<br \/>\nWhat does it take to reimagine an otherwise, and walk the talk Sideways?<\/p>\n<p>We will prepare food together, food grown with care and respect of the soil and the people working it.<br \/>\nWe will invite questions and dreams as special ingredients; we will share our collective knowledge through prompts and proposals, we will hold space for each other and call for our radical hospitality, we will test our capacities of connecting and imagining other ways of living together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <div class=\"start-7 end-11  start-s-1 end-s-12 grid rg-20 standard acs\">\n                    <p>Through evocations, embodiments, storytelling and story making, we will \u201cshare bread\u201d as a way to build companionship, to build new relationships, to learn from each other, to question, form alliances, center around care, tenderness and to share joy as a form of resistance. <\/p>\n<p>In the difficult times in which we are living, practicing forms of coming together with intention, awareness, curiosity, and generosity, building trust and togetherness, is essential for our communities to develop resilience and reimagine hope. <\/p>\n<p>Please, bring a question and (or) a gift to share with the other participants. The gift will be the way in which you will present yourself to the group, it can be anything that tells something authentic or important about you: something you cooked, a story, a song, a drawing, a burning question, an offering.<br \/>\nWe hope you can join us in this collective experience of envisioning different futures and reconnecting with our pasts, through being present in our present. <\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"accordion section-padding-bottom\">\n                    <ul class=\"accordion wrapper full grid rg-10\">\n                            <li class=\"item wrapper full grid-12 rg-0\">\n                    <button class=\"title grid-12 start-3 end-10 start-s-2 ens-s-11\">\n                        <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid-12 wrapper rg-30\">\n                            <div class=\"start-1 end-12\">\n                                Embodyment Practice with Natascha Anahita Nassir-Shahnian                             <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/button>\n                    <div class=\"content start-3 end-10  start-s-2 ens-s-11 grid\">\n                        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper\">\n                            <div class=\"content-block start-1 end-12 grid-12\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid rg-15\">\n                                        <p>As an arriving, grounding and activating practice, Natascha will facilitate a process for each guest as a meditative journey into their body, mind and spirit &#8211; to allow deeper layers of emergence and a presence around the tentacular connections that going sideways allows for. The second session with Natascha will open a space for inviting subconscious layers of reflection of the last night. Followed by a transition into what is present and facilitating awareness of what needs to emerge for the individual and the group in the final hours of going sideways.<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    \n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"item wrapper full grid-12 rg-0\">\n                    <button class=\"title grid-12 start-3 end-10 start-s-2 ens-s-11\">\n                        <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid-12 wrapper rg-30\">\n                            <div class=\"start-1 end-12\">\n                                THESE CARDS ARE NOT MAGIC with Bek Berger                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/button>\n                    <div class=\"content start-3 end-10  start-s-2 ens-s-11 grid\">\n                        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper\">\n                            <div class=\"content-block start-1 end-12 grid-12\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid rg-15\">\n                                        <p>\nIn this workshop participants are invited to dive into a new world of hosting honest conversations through collaborative artist-made tarot. \u2018THESE CARDS ARE NOT MAGIC \u2019 is a tool, a collaboration, a methodology, a performance which invites artists and conspirators to have an honest conversation about their relationships. Drawing on the legacy of conventional tarot, this new deck utilizes contemporary language, imagery and a collaborative practice to generate textures of conversation and exchange. These cards and the performed reading provide a platform for conversations to arise and the invitation to talk through the images. The cards provide a safe and non-confrontation backdrop to talk about collaborations, crossing borders (artistic and physical) and thresholds.<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    \n                <\/li>\n                        <\/ul>\n              \n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p><b>Natascha Anahita Nassir Shahnian<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nataschas facilitation practice is informed of a collage of different methods she gathered in over 20 years of practice from a mix of social activism, youth work, political education, perfomance art, film making, empowerment work &amp; process work. She loves the power of breath, connecting with the self and the universal space &#8211; and how awareness to the dance of the unconscious guides our way on what needs to come to light.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Natascha-Ramin-Parvin-720x981.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                    <div class=\"image-text\"><p>Photo: Ramin Parvin<\/p>\n<\/div>                  \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p><b>Alessandra Pomarico<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alessandra Pomarico is a curator, writer, and educator at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, and community building. Co-founder of Ecoversities Alliance; of the artistic and pedagogic initiative Free Home Universit since 2013 , and of the radio platform Firefly Frequencies. Recent projects are The School of the We, The New Alphabet School, and Seeding~Grounding. Editor at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/artseverywhere.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">artseverywhere.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she edited <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pedagogies Otherwise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s there to learn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Roots Start Moving,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resonating with Zapatismo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Archive Books 2021). Upcoming publications include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The School of the We Workbook<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlearning and Uplearning: Free Home University at 10.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Alessandra-Pomarico-720x1151.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                                      \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p>Bek Berger (b. 1988) is an artist, curator and dramaturg originally from Australia, based now between Berlin and Riga, where from 2020 to 2024, she was curator of the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre, Homo Novus. Bek\u2019s practice binds curiosity with innovation in order to design new models of connection, collaboration and reciprocity between artists and communities, across borders and art forms. Her expertise lies between festival making, dance dramaturgy and karaoke. In the last years she has instigated a number of large international collaborations such as Baltic Take Over Helsinki (LV, LT, EE, FI), The Shake Down with Rosendal Theatre (LV, NO), The Festivals Path with ANTI festival (LV, FI). As an artist she is currently concerned with exploiting magic, making new conditions for togetherness and improving the performing arts with pleasure centered design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bek_berger_by-Jussi-Virkkumaa-_-Saari-Residence-1-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                    <div class=\"image-text\"><p>Photo: Jussi Virkkumaa<\/p>\n<\/div>                  \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p><b>Sa\u00fal Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez aka La Saula<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a performance artist, radical performance director, scholar, and pedagogue. He serves as Professor of Performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and co-artistic director of La Pocha Nostra. Sa\u00fal is also the co-author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook For The Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His multidisciplinary artistic work spans body, text, and performance, challenging assumptions of cultural representation through the embodiment of simultaneous and contradictory identities. His research and practice focus on performance pedagogy, indigeneity, gender, postcoloniality, and decolonial theory, exploring the intersections of acting, performance theory, and indigenous strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-STRATA-VestAndPage-La-Saula-Border-copy1-720x983.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                                      \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p><b>Danja Burchard (them\/they)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lives &amp; works nomadic <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">currently between Hamburg, Berlin and Barcelona<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danja Burchard is an art worker based between Hamburg, Berlin, and Barcelona, whose work spans creative production, performance, curation, and writing, with a focus on collective processes, radical pedagogies, and discursive practices. Rooted in an intersectional queer- and feminist theoretical framework, Burchard explores speculative futures through process-based methods. They are a founding member of the project space NOGOODS, the research magazine bias, i.c.a.p., and the performance collective PORNOTOPIAcollectivo. Burchard has co-curated Dissident Publics: Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, developed interdisciplinary programs at NOGOODS, and collaborated with artists and institutions like Studio Tom\u00e1s Saraceno, 71 Body Company, and BIT Teatergarasjen. In 2023, Burchard joined the IETM Producers Network, was a CIFAS Producers Academy fellow, and is currently a fellow at the Producer Academy 2024 of the Produktionsh\u00e4user.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DanjaBurchard_by-Sahar-Pahangeh-720x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                    <div class=\"image-text\"><p>Photo: Sahar Pahangeh<\/p>\n<\/div>                  \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n    <section class=\"text-and-image section-padding-bottom transparent\">\n        <div class=\"grid-12 wrapper rg-50 side-padding\">\n            <div class=\"start-1 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 grid-12 acs js cg-30 cg-s-0\">\n                <div class=\"text-column start-1 end-5 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-1 grid rg-30 acs js standard\">\n                    \n                    <div class=\"start-1 end-12 grid\"><p><b>Epona Hamdan (she\/her)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berlin<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epona Hamdan has been a creative producer, curator, writer, facilitator, and outside eye in live arts since 2016, based in Berlin. Her work spans local independent scenes and international collaborations, shaped by her experience as a German-Lebanese queer identity and mother. Hamdan\u2019s practice focuses on anti-colonial culture production, critical pedagogies, and decentralizing knowledge and access, viewing art as a space for counterpublics. In 2022, she was an emerging curator for the 12th Berlin Biennale\u2019s \u201cIt speaks to me\u201d program. Her Berlin Senate-funded research on decolonial curatorial methodologies, explores these practices within European institutions. Hamdan has worked with Rimini Protokoll as a creative arts producer, and as a curatorial assistant and manager at Spielart Theaterfestival. She has managed the Akademie der Autodidakten, initiated community projects, and is involved in the Intersectional Feminist Leadership Platform in Live Arts, Helsinki, and the produktionsbande network for performing arts producers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                    \n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"image-column start-6 end-12 start-s-1 end-s-12 row-1 row-s-2 grid rg-30 acs js\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitteater.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kopie-von-Epona-headshots-photography-RaeMeeJinTilly-finals-retouched-6-720x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>                    <div class=\"image-text\"><p>Photo: Rae Mee Jin Tilly<\/p>\n<\/div>                  \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":3030,"template":"","event_category":[61,62,72],"event_venue":[81],"accessibility":[101,98,99,80,90,100],"class_list":["post-1740","program","type-program","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-discourse","event_category-free","event_category-oktoberdans2024-en","event_venue-hordaland-kunstsenter-en","accessibility-accessible-with-wheelchair","accessibility-no-blackout","accessibility-no-stage-smoke-or-scents","accessibility-no-strobe-lights","accessibility-seated","accessibility-with-english-text-speech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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