With the three-week interdisciplinary workshop Unbound Geographies, we invite participants—together with our former resident artist Taiwo Jacob Ojudun and Uche Emmanuel Enechukwu—to explore the interrelations between bodies, borders, and urban spaces. Throughout the course, we create a space for artistic research, critical exchange, and collective learning.
At the core of the workshop lies the question of how histories of migration, displacement, and colonialism are inscribed in and embodied by European cities today. We understand borders not as abstract geographical lines, but as lived realities—shaped by memory, social structures, and historical power relations. Through collaborative processes and individual mentoring, we approach these questions from both artistic and theoretical perspectives. Working with dance, somatic practices, interventions in public space, oral archives, speculative media, and multimedia experimentation, we expand our forms of expression and refine our aesthetic strategies.
We conceive of performance as a space for memory and community. Our research culminates in artistic-critical interventions within the urban context. The workshop concludes with a public presentation in which we bring together and share the results of our work.
Applications are open until early April: Apply here!
Picture: lluminatetheatre, Lagos, 2017 © Gbolahan