Art invites us to experience the unknown; it enables other – often unknown – ways of looking at, recognising, and provoking realities. Its poetic and political dimension provides a fertile space for questioning, projecting and collectively constructing new futures. It allows us to unveil and rewrite individual and collective narratives, and proposes an exchange of roles. It allows us to rediscover our bodies and other bodies, new movements, sounds, perspectives… An exercise in decolonising the senses, in imagination and in radical tenderness, a rediscovery and reconstruction of personal and collective poetics and power: a common body as a political subject.

This ‘common place of art,’ in its physical and symbolic dimension, is the meeting place for this masterclass, which invites participants to an immersive, sensory, emotional and playful creative experience. It also proposes a critical reflection on the practices of desire and risk in the context of cultural institutions and structures, and their potential for creating spaces of re-signification, resistance and social transformation.