#1_PÓS-SILÊNCIO PRÉ-APOCALÍPTICO

#1_pre-apocalyptic post-silence is a collaborative and participatory installation-performance that invites participants and the audience to reflect on Audre Lorde’s challenging question: “What tyrannies do you swallow, day after day, and make them your own, until you sicken and die of them, always in silence?”

Rita Westwood is an artist-researcher and a mapper of the arts and pedagogy: she works with material objects and with her own body in performance and movement research. She completed her Master’s degree in Gender Studies at Utrecht University and her Basic Somatic Training at the Somatische Akademie in Berlin in 2024. Her research interests revolve around the exploration, practice and imagination of other forms of knowledge within and outside academia, establishing a dialogue between the body and Art. In a broader and more cross-cutting sense, her life’s motto is based on the reclamation of pleasure, agency and the micropolitics of bodies under colonial-capitalist domination.