Lecture with performance maker and researcher Danae Theodoridou

How can performative structures and processes impact institutions of democracy, such as political parties, municipal factions, or citizens' assemblies?

Time: 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via info@taidekoulumaa.fi)

Join Danae Theodoridou in a conversation on “how can performative structures and processes impact institutions of democracy, such as political parties, municipal factions, or citizens' assemblies?” 

Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researcher based in Brussels. She completed her practice-led PhD in Roehampton University in London (2013). Under the title The Practice of Democracy, her artistic work focuses on a corporeal approach to politics through participatory performances and workshops that explore practices such as public speaking, assembling, protesting, conflict a.o. Theodoridou teaches in the MA Performing Public Space in Fontys Academy of the Arts (NL), curates practice-led research projects, and presents and publishes her work internationally. Her current artistic research, entitled Performing the Public Body takes place in the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. She is the co-author of The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017) and the author of Publicing - Practising Democracy Through Performance (Nissos, 2022). Her new book, entitled APPEAR! And others acts to (per)form democracy, will be published in late 2026.

Website: www.danaetheodoridou.com

An image description: indoor view of a modern parliament space where a speaker is addressing an audience