workshops

Leading workshops, to me, is not a side activity — it is central to my research. Practice is where the thinking happens. It’s where ideas are not just spoken but tested, trembled through, “sweated” through, forgotten, and remembered again. Each workshop becomes a shared space of inquiry, where certain techniques and intuition meet. Where presence is shaped through repetition, failure, and attention. In my guidance, I don’t seek to deliver answers, but to hold questions — about the body, presence, memory, repetition, vulnerability, courage, risk, gesture. Facilitating these encounters keeps the work and the research alive, it allows me to stay close to the material, to keep listening, to return to the unknown, not alone, but with others, and to keep getting lost and reoriented.
It’s not about transmission of any sort of knowledge; it’s about cohabiting an edge — together.

The workshops I conduct emerge at the crossing of bodily practices, feminist theory, autobiographical research, and performance. Some are built around shared reflection — on memory, trauma, and the haunted body — while others unfold through physical training, movement, and presence. Over the years, I’ve worked with themes such as feminist gestures, reenactment, autobiography, and embodied decolonial perspectives, offering spaces for critical exploration as well as intimate physical inquiry. Today, my workshops may also include somatic and yogic approaches, not as healing formulas, but as tools to listen, disorganize, and recompose the body. Whether through writing, improvisation, shared readings or floor-based drills, the common thread is always the same: to invite a kind of thinking that begins in the flesh.


summoning ghosts, reenacting traumas_

Feminist Performances and Perspectives from the Global South

Can a gesture, an act, a scene be summoned again? What changes in its return? How do we find language — or movement — to engage with violence, with the unspeakable, with what persists in the body like a ghost?

Structured as both a practical lab and a reflective inquiry, this workshop is inspired by feminist performance practices by artists from the Global South — including Susana Pilar, Regina José Galindo, Ana Mendieta, and others — whose work confronts the intersections of memory, violence, and representation.

Drawing from thinkers such as Adriana Cavarero and Eleonora Fabião, we investigate the difference between horror and terror, presence and possession, symbolic action and its physical reverberations.

Participants are guided through physical exercises, breathwork, writing, and collective improvisation. We hold isometric postures, shake, tremble, fall, observe, remember. We choreograph with ghosts — not to exorcise them, but to acknowledge them as part of our own archive.

The workshop creates space to reflect on questions such as:

  • What haunts us — personally, politically, historically?

  • What happens when we reenact?

  • How can symbolic gestures carry critical weight?

  • What are the risks — and the ethics — of making pain visible?

This workshop first took place at Kulturhaus Helferei, Zürich, in the years of 2023 and 2024.

It is open to all bodies and backgrounds, requiring no performance experience, only the willingness to move, to imagine, and to remain with complexity.

CORPO-MÍDIA

Autobiographical Experiences in the Feminist Scene