APPUNTI CLANDESTINI PER UN’AUTOBIOGRAFIA COLLETTIVA
Workshop with Chiara Bersani e Flavia Dalila D’Amico
In this workshop, artist Chiara Bersani and researcher Flavia Dalila D’Amico create a space for exploring lived experiences, interpersonal relationships and our connection with the world.
Through movement and writing exercises, participants will bring desires and tensions to the surface, gradually transforming them into traces – written, sung, danced and spoken. The aim is to develop transformative practices of self-narration and to collectively explore the mosaic of our presence in the world today, in order to imagine and bring to life a tomorrow that goes beyond the poetics of catastrophe.
Dates for this event:
Free participation
To participate, write to laboratori@genderbender.it including a short presentation.
Accessibility
Bio
Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and writer active in the fields of the performing arts, experimental theater, and contemporary dance. Her works, presented on international circuits, center on the concept of the “Political Body.” With Gentle Unicorn, a performance included in the Aerowaves circuit, she won the UBU Award for Best New Actress/Performer Under 35 in 2018 and the Total Theatre Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2023, Deserters, the artist’s first solo exhibition, opened at the Kunsthaus in Basel, in collaboration with GAMEC in Bergamo and supported by the 11th edition of the Italian Council.
She is co-curator, alongside Giulia Traversi, of the Spazio Kor season and Guest Curator for the 2025 edition of the international performing arts festival Bastards(Trondheim, Norway). She is a member of Al.Di.Qua.Artists, a professional association for artists with disabilities.
For her work as an activist, she was nominated for the Black Carpet Awards and the Diversity Awards in 2023. She is an associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro 2025–2027.
Flavia Dalila D’Amico is a scholar and curator in the field of the performing arts. Her research interests focus on the intersections between bodies, political subjectivities, and technologies within the performing arts. In 2022, she published the book Lost in Translation: Disabilities on Stage (Bulzoni Editore), which explores the relationship between disabilities and theater. In 2024, she co-authored with Diana Ciufo Accessibility as an Aesthetic Principle: A Year of Experimentation in Art, Co-Design, and Social Justice (Bulzoni Editore). In 2025, she co-authored with Chiara Bersani and Giulia Traversi the book Above All Else: Toward a CRIPS Future (Sossella Editore).
She is a member of Al. Di. Qua. Artists, a professional association that promotes the rights of artists with disabilities.
She manages communications for Chiara Bersani and the artistic residency Creazioni Accessibili, which aims to experiment with dramaturgy of access, produced by ORBITA|Spellbound National Center for Dance Production.
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