Public Program: Talk

・Summary
We are facing inexplicable forms of unseen violence and unimaginable horror in our surroundings every day. These are times of capitalist Necropolitics that dictate how bodies are to live and die. As part of the residency at Saison Foundation, Elisa Liepsch will continue her curatorial research on violence and its unfolding in the frameworks of land, nation state and borders; health, gender and family; state and police; fascism and narratives.
How can we relate, react and reflect on violence when we keep experiencing it in our bodies, environments, technologies, bureaucracies, norms and narratives? Which fantasies does violence produce, and how can we elaborate and perform when there is no relief or salvation over time? What can be artistic strategies of self-defense and resistance?
Through the projects Architectures of Violence. 3 days on borders, fences and hijacking public space, and In Harm’s Way. A conversation about sexual violence, self-defense and artistic strategies, that she initiated at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Elisa Liepsch will give an insight into her artistic research and collaborative curatorial practice while inviting to share and connect through the understanding of art as tool for transnational solidarity and building spaces of temporary communities. (Elisa Liepsch)

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■Profile
Elisa Liepsch
Elisa Liepsch works as a dramaturg and programmer. Between 2019-2024, she was head of performing arts at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Belgium where she initiated programmes around violence, storytelling, imagination, resistance, and the politics of space and time, e.g. Telling Tales. Towards Antifascist Futures (2024). Between 2014-2019, she worked at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, where she (co-)curated projects such as Afropean Mimicry & Mockery in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts (2014-2016), or im*possible bodies (2018-2019). In 2018, she developed a residency programme with artists from Mozambique, South Africa and Nigeria at Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig, Germany. Elisa Liepsch was part of the dramaturgy team at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (2010-2013), and worked with Frie Leysen for Theater der Welt 2010 in the Ruhr area in Germany. She is co-editor of the publication “Alliances. Critical Practice in White Institutions” (transcript, 2018). In October 2024, she took over the direction of Festival Belluard Bollwerk in Fribourg, Switzerland.
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