Kinks in Cables – Theatre of the Oppressed Session(s)

This session starts from, operates through, and circles back to the infrastructures that shape artistic labour. With the aim to bolster understandings of how social reproduction and material infrastructure sustain and mediate one another in the arts, the session invites to re-enact (with) funding’s logistics, institutional desires, cruel optimisms, professional norms, paradoxes of autonomy, and speculative flows (of creative production and value alike). By doing so, we seek to interrupt their capacity to quietly reproduce precarity while presenting themselves as an opportunity to compliant art-workers.

Through Theatre of the Oppressed practices facilitated by Rosa Stourac McCreery, Liza Prins, Alina Lupu, with further support from Laura Dubourjal, Kinks in Cables brings art workers together to study, rehearse, and sing against these conditions.

When and where?

Thursday 19th February, GROND @grond.bajesdorp , Amsterdam; Friday 20th February, BAK Basecamp @bakbasecamp , Utrecht; Saturday 21st February, Nesse @nesse_terneuzen , Terneuzen, between 13:00–18:00 CET

Do you want to join?

To join us, please register by emailing theofficeofalinalupu@protonmail.com by February 10th. Any questions or (access) requests can be sent to this same address.

* These TO Workshop sessions are part of the work Alina and Liza will be doing in residence at Nesse, Terneuzen, exploring infrastructural tensions in art production through study, theatre, and song.

** Images are from Workshop – Theater of the Oppressed in Paris (1975). Courtesy: Acervo Cedoc/Funarte.