EDN Carte Blanche Artist Exchange _ “What Makes You Disabled?” | Public Symposium

a project by Lavanderia a Vapore
in collaboration with EDN and Al.Di.Qua. Artists

With the public symposium What makes you disabled?, conceived by Lavanderia a Vapore with Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the four-days residency organized with European Dancehouse Network to encourage an exchange of artistic practices and knowledge in relation to the theme of accessibility comes to an end.

PROGRAMME

10.30 am | welcome and introduction

10.45 am – 11.45 am | Autoritratto
performance by and with Diana Anselmo (performer and activist)

Autoritratto/Self-portrait in 3 acts, the central theme of which is the gaze, declining it from three different points of view; almost as if they were three different ways of looking at a look. 1° act: the own gaze, what does it mean to inhabit a disabled body? 2° act: the suffered gaze, which brings into play the theme of the intrusiveness of other people’s gazes on our bodies. 3° act: the re-appropriated gaze. As poetic as it is political, it is the sought-after and self-determined gaze on and of one’s own corporeity. A look that is no longer singular, but collective; as rendered by the video-manifesto of Al.Di.Qua., the first disabled-led European association that advocates for the rights of disabled artists and cultural workers in the performing arts sector.

11.45 am – 12.00 pm | coffee break  

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm| Bodies, Practices, Imaginaries
with Diana Anselmo, Flavia Dalila D’Amico (performing arts curator, video maker and editor) and Elia Zeno Covolan (transmasc non-binary, neurodivergent visual designer and illustrator with chronic illness and disability)
moderated by Stefania Di Paolo (researcher, curator, disability advocate, founder TalkwithDance and contributor Hangar)

Starting from the performance Autoritratto and the Manifesto of Al. Di. Qua Artists, and inspired by Flavia Dalila D’Amico’s research, we gather perspectives and experiences of artists and operators on conditions and labels imposed by the abilist paradigm.

1 pm – 2 pm | lunch break 

2 pm – 3 pm | Crip time beyond the given frame of perception

A conversation on invisible disabilities, crip time and temporalities perceive throughs lenses that overcome the abilist model with Stefania Di Paolo (TalkwithDance) and Alessandro Schiattarella (performer, in online connection), moderated by Diana Anselmo.

3 pm – 3.30 pm | presentation of a case study, MELT
by Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr
with Flavia Dalila D’Amico

3.30 pm – 4 pm | coffee break  

4 pm – 5 pm | Accessible ecosystems
with Mauro Danesi (artistic director of Orlando festival)
Angela Torriani Evangelisti (artistic director of the dance sector of Teatro Cantiere Florida)
Chiara Bersani and Francesca Cortese (artistic director and community manager Spazio Kor)
Anna Consolati (General Manager at Oriente Occidente festival – in online connection)
moderated by Flavia Dalila D’Amico

What do we need? By giving voice to Italian organisations and institutions that shares critical points and pivotal moments of their experiences and attempts to create equitable spaces, we collectively ask what do we need to enable the future we want?  The dialogue will propose visions, questions and possible policies.