The School of Performance Presents: Carte Blanche #4 - This space is for you: dramaturgies of capture and radical hospitatlity

This space is for you is a conceptual place and performance environment that investigates the concept of radical hospitality in embodied and experiential ways using technologies of capture. The project engages with notions of digital tenderness as a dramaturgical consideration for staging environments of hospitality, and tenderness as methodology for undertaking embodied and collective experiments with technologies of capture. In the context of the Carte Blanche series, the creators and collaborators will discuss the research-creation process in the form of a performance lecture.

BIO(S):

Shauna Janssen is an interdisciplinary performance creator, researcher, educator, and cultural producer. Her creative practice is focused on staging site-responsive and place-based art works. 

Esteban Donoso is an artist-researcher and holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University. His work focuses on questions of archiving and transmission in dance and performance.

Gabriela Petrov is a certified Somatic Movement Educator and her artistic practice and research focus on somatic movement and improvisation as methods for inhabiting spaces of performance and everyday life.

Kristyna Balaban is a Czech-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and cultural facilitator with a background in filmmaking, documentary media, and designing live audio-visual performances.