Imaginative Bodies
Dialogues in Performance Practices

- The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
- Spaces for Criticism
- Interrupting the City
- Imaginative Bodies
- The Practice of Dramaturgy
- Mobile Autonomy
- In-between Dance Cultures
- No Culture, No Europe
- Arts Education Beyond Art
- Aesthetic Justice
- Alternative Mainstream
- The Ethics of Art
- Institutional Attitudes
- Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm
- Community Art
- Moving Together
- Repressief Liberalisme
- The Art of Civil Action - Political Space and Cultural Dissent
- Commonism - A New Aesthetics of the Real
- The Future of the New
- Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space
- When Fact is Fiction – Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
- Design Dedication
- Nearness - Art And Education After Covid-19
- Nabijheid - Kunst en onderwijs na Covid-19
- The Aesthetics of Ambiguity
- Kwetsbaarheid
- Fragility
- Sensing Earth - Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
Published by Valiz/Antennae Series
Edited by Lisa Marie Bowler. Text by Guy Cools. Interviews with Sue Buckmaster, Jonathan Burrows, Rosemary Butcher, Dana Caspersen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jonzi D, et al.
It is through the sentient body that we experience, know and imagine—and so the body is perhaps the most important tool for making and experiencing art. Imaginative Bodies reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer. The contributors discuss the place of the body in their own work, and in relation to wider debates on the body in philosophy, science, medicine, anthropology and the arts. Each artist interviewed also raises a more specific theme, ranging from poetics to politics, from mythology to ecology, from intercultural studies to conflict management. These talks give an intimate insight into the artists’ creative processes, inspirations, sources, identities and ways of collaborating.