Claire Lefèvre: Care Work for exhausted performers and overwhelmed artists (workshop)

Focusing on care work is not only necessary for the survival of cultural workers, whose working conditions are notoriously precarious, it is also a radical act of acknowledging the reproductive labor which is part of making art. This workshop is an invitation to lie down, relax your jaw and re-imagine artistic production models from a queer feminist perspective.

Claire Lefèvre (she/her) is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer and reality TV enthusiast living and working in Vienna. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and spectators into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven. Alongside her choreographic works, Claire is exploring the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined to disinvisibilize care work in the context of performance making. Her work with text spans from poetry to grant applications, at times flirting with performance criticism, stand-up comedy or queer feminist theory. Occasionally she works as a ghost writer, but mostly because of the spectral appeal of the job title.

Led by: Claire Lefèvre

The workshop is free of charge, but places are limited. To register, email info@emanat.si.