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[moma-prints]

Untitled from Large Illumination Drawings, Simone Forti, 1972, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Modern Women's Fund Size: 19 x 24" (48.3 x 61 cm) Medium: Charcoal on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/173878

[arihoffmann]

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS // ROME

Lateral Roma is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop:

Sedimenting Grief, Performing Memory

developed through a collaboration between artist Endi Tupja and dancer and choreographer Arianne Hoffmann

The workshop will be held on Sunday May 24th, from 10 am to 1 pm at Fivizzano27, Via Fivizzano 27, 00176 Rome. Registration is required.

Sedimenting Grief, Performing Memory invites FLINTA* participants (Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, and Agender people) into a space where movement, speech, and writing intertwine. Writing will be explored through Logomotion, an improvisational method developed by choreographer Simone Forti, in which movement and words emerge spontaneously from a shared source. Movement is understood not only as performance, but as a method of inscription and collective storytelling.

The workshop is part of Tupja’s project Bones Touching Water, which addresses the colonial legacy between Italy and Albania within the broader context of the Southern Mediterranean, centering autobiographical feminist perspectives and collective memory as tools for mourning and confronting systemic injustices—particularly those experienced by migrant women in relation to sexual violence. Through the retelling of the story of Adelina Sejdini—an activist, cultural worker, and survivor of sex trafficking who died by suicide in Rome in 2021—Tupja’s research investigates writing and bodily movement as ways of exploring presence against the erasure of specific marginalized stories.

Tupja has invited Hoffmann to lead a session based on a practice connected both to Simone Forti’s approach to improvisational dance narrative methods and to Hoffmann’s own research on movement scores. Hoffmann’s work focuses on the body as a site of layered, lived experience and as the ontological source for a sense of agency. Materials centered on the story of Adelina Sejdini will be provided as a starting point. Participants will source from their personal existence, their bodies and their connections to Adelina’s story to engage in a performative discursive encounter that speaks of the current moment.

The workshop, lasting 3 hours, is open to 13 participants. It is intended for FLINTA* participants (Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, and Agender people). Participation is especially encouraged for members of the Albanian community, the Albanian diaspora, and people with a migration background. No professional experience is required. Exercises will be conducted in Italian and English.

During the session, all languages are welcome and encouraged. To participate, please register by sending an email to [email protected], indicating the workshop title in the subject line and including your name, surname, phone number, and a short paragraph (250 words) describing your motivations and background. Participants will receive an email confirming their reservation with further details.

Participation is free of charge.

Access to Fivizzano27 requires an ARCI membership card; for those who do not have one, the membership fee will be covered by the organizers.The workshop is organized by Lateral Roma and hosted by Fivizzano27, Via Fivizzano 27, 00176 Rome.

Endi Tupja is a visual artist whose practice focuses on experimenting with strategies of memory recuperation, visuality, and the subverted geographies that shape identity and history. Her current research in moving image and performance inquires the possibilities of the personal able to magnify the collective narratives of mirroring empires, specifically in the colonial legacies between Italy and Albania. Tupja was an Artist Research Grant recipient at the Center For Advanced Studies South East Europe University of Rijeka. Her video work has been shown in film festivals in Kosova, Mexico, UK, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Taipei etc. Tupja has exhibited among others at Silent Green (Berlin), SEA Foundation (Tilburg), iMAL (Brussels), the Kyiv Biennial 2021, MARKK Hamburg, Onassis Stegi(Athens), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), The National Gallery of Kosova (Prishtina).

Arianne Hoffmann is a dancer and choreographer whose investigation of movement has taken myriad shapes: she teaches, performs, conceives and curates with an understanding of movement as a socio-political as well as personal tool to increase one’s sense of agency. After earning a master’s in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, she moved back to Berlin and then to rural southwest Germany, where she continues teaching dance improvisation – primarily Simone Forti’s Logomotion method – to professionals, the elderly, teenagers and colleagues alike.

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[moma-prints]

Untitled from Large Illumination Drawings, Simone Forti, 1972, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

The Modern Women's Fund Size: 19 x 24" (48.3 x 61 cm) Medium: Charcoal on paper

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/173875

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#Repost @themuseumofmodernart ・・・ Experience what was described in 1962 as "the most exciting new dance in a generation" with “Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done,” open to the public this Sunday thanks to the generous support of @HyundaiCard! ... Through February 3, our galleries trace the history of the multidisciplinary artists who gathered in downtown New York’s Judson Memorial Church for a series of workshops that ultimately redefined dance. Join us for ongoing live performances, iconic films, and immersive workshops featuring dance visionaries #YvonneRainer, #SimoneForti’s Dance Constructions, #DeborahHay, #DavidGordon, #LucindaChilds, #StevePaxton, #TrishaBrown, #MovementResearch, and more! Full schedule at mo.ma/judsondance. #JudsonDance https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1FuzCnDMI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w0jwf1iflib4

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Letter to Simone Forti from Elizabeth Leister