keywords
Body & Consumer culture, Body & Health, Body & Social control, Body & Sexuality
research
The female body will be addressed and interpreted through the lens of history, politics, economy and culture. Through discussions, creations in different medium and presentation, participants will learn to use reflection of their own embodied experiences.
Attendees can register easily through a Google Form independently to each class.
Attendees can register easily through a Google Form independently to each class.
- DAY 1: Body & Consumer culture - Part 1. "Beauty industry, cosmetic surgery""
- DAY 2: Body & Consumer culture - Part 2. "Fashion"
- DAY 3: Body & Health - Part 1. "Disordered bodies, disordered eating"
- DAY 4: Body & Health - Part 2. "Periods, Body smells, Hairs"
- DAY 5: Body & Social control - Part 1: "Policing-Regulating-Dominating"
- DAY 6: Body & Social control - Part 2: "Oppression, Exploitation, Violence"
- DAY 7: Body & Sexuality - Part 1: "Desire"
- DAY 8: Body & Sexuality - Part 2: "Love"
- DAY 9: Body & Sexuality - Part 3: "Intimacy"
organization
During the 9 classes, participants will be encouraged to raise their voice, echo freely the broader socio-political context, challenge hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies, develop their capacities to resist, protest, revolt, fight against oppression: achieve structural and sustainable changes.
So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, participants will move back and forth between moving, writing and drawing. They will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of their own original artworks.
So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, participants will move back and forth between moving, writing and drawing. They will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of their own original artworks.
participant's learning outcomes
The "School of Desire" increases participating women's self-confidence, fosters their creativity and critical thinking, gives them support, knowledge and tools to resist, defy, protest and take action. The program develops participant's originality and out-of-the-box thinking by offering them a non-hierarchical and judgment-free space where they can express themselves freely: question social norms and expectations, challenge conventions and traditional canons, confront stereotypes, rules and systems in which they are socialized and familiarized with. Participants are also encouraged to liberate themselves from their fears, transgress their boundaries, go beyond their limits and push themselves out of their comfort zone.
1. Theoretical knowledge, Awareness-raising on women's rights
2. Self-reflection & mental health
3. Artistic techniques & skills
1. Theoretical knowledge, Awareness-raising on women's rights
- Acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically;
- Achieve social change, make things happen;
- Get introduced to some theoretical concepts (female body, standard of beauty, body positivity, body politics, reproductive rights, sexualization, cult of virginity, domestic violence, anti-pornography, queer bodies, women’s health and disabilities...);
2. Self-reflection & mental health
- Develop self-confidence, self-care and self-love;
- Liberate themselves from their fears, transgress their boundaries, go beyond their limits and push themselves out of their comfort zone;
- "Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!"
3. Artistic techniques & skills
- Experiment with different techniques and forms (performance, acrobatics, contemporary dance, yoga-healing-relaxation);
- Discover trans-disciplinary and experimental working approaches;
- Discover community art, experience design and healing / therapeutic practices linked to performing arts.
