The project was initiated by Alix Eynaudi, in close collaboration with Paula Caspǎo and guests Emma Bigé, Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh, Clementine Burnley and Yves Mettler
«(Im)mobility Salon #1» is a co-production between Tanzfabrik Berlin & «Institute of Rest(s)».
«Institute of Rest(s)» is funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne & supported by Tanzquartier Wien , La Grange Center /Arts et Sciences / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, Le Far Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Volkskundemuseum Vienna and ImpulsTanz Vienna. Volkskundemuseum Vienna and ImpulsTanz Vienna.
↪ FURTHER BIOGRAPHIES
Born in Cameroon
Clementine Burnley now lives and works between the U.K. and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy – RSPOP, studying large group facilitation and conflict mediation. Her poems have been published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Magma, and The Poetry Review.
Emma Bigé studies, writes, translates, curates, and improvises between the fields of dance, transfeminist and environmental studies. Co-editor of anthologies on improvisation and author of
Mouvementements. Écopolitiques de la danse (La Découverte, 2023), she is currently working with trans* & ecological studies, translating queer theorists and writers (Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Eva Hayward a.o.), and preparing two books on ecosex theory and transecofeminism.
Ujjwal Utkarsh Kanishka is a Phd-in-Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He has been trying to develop a form that emerges out of the observational cinema tradition and he continues to do that through his PhD project. Ujjwal primarily makes films while frequently dabbling into other forms like photography, sound and theater. He has also been a faculty of various aspects of filmmaking in several institutes across India.
Yves Mettler 's work aims at building a sense for today’s global urbanisation processes. The works present a narrative fabric, giving the urban environment a polyphonic, emotional, and often humourous, expression. Since 2002 he develops a research & art practice around urban places called “Europe square”, cultivating the spaces between urban reality and symbolic values. His works have been shown i.e. at Kaunas Biennal (2021), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2017), Bozar, Brussels (2016).
Paula Caspão experiments with cine-fabulation practices to interrogate the forms of extractivism and socioenvironmental devastation implicated in the production of knowledge and history, as well as in the maintenance of their institutions, technologies and political fictions. She is a researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies and the Institute for Contemporary History, and a guest lecturer at the University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in philosophy, University of Paris-Nanterre (2010) and was an invited scholar
at the Performance Studies - New York University (2018).