Isabel Raabe
Saturday 19th July
11:55 - 12:40
GMT +1
The Dancing Body as a Space of Resistance . Let's Spell R-E-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E together!
Biography / Biografía
Isabel Raabe is a curator based in Berlin. She is trained as a dancer and later studied cultural management. Isabel is interested in decolonial curatorial and artistic strategies that deconstruct Western perspectives. 2015 she initiated the RomArchive – Digital Archive of the Roma, which won several prizes. Since 2019 Isabel runs the artistic research project TALKING OBJECTS - Decolonizing Knowledge, exploring plural knowledge systems and practices beyond the Eurocentric canon, together with a curatorial team from Senegal, Kenya and Germany. It consists of the think tank-, performance- and exhibition series TALKING OBJECTS LAB and a digital archive. www.isabelraabe.de www.talkingobjectslab.org
Abstract / Resumen
In a performative talk we explore the dancing body as a site of resistance. The word 'resistance' is our starting point with each letter representing an embodied concept:
R – Ritual
E – Embodiment
S – Sensuality
I – Improvisation
S – Survival
T – Transcendence
A – Ancestry
N – Nurture
C – Crisis
E – Entanglement
Through an embodied alphabet, we aim to co-create knowledge that resists violent systems of fragmentation, blending academic reflection, poetry, gesture, memory, and dance to explore how resistance breathes in the moving body. We invite the audience to expand conversations around decoloniality, care, and embodied knowledge, reclaiming dance as a radical, relational, and reparative act.