Dani d’Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti, 2015

“An Invitation to Radical Tenderness, by Dani d’Emilia and Vanessa Andreotti registers thoughts expressed by the collective “Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures” and is part of the broader artistic-pedagogic collaboration “Engaged dis-identifications”, which explores the workings of non-notional possibilities of co-existence through performative practices. With the support of Musagetes Foundation, this collaboration attempts to translate post-representational modes of engagement into embodied experiments that reconfigure the connections between reason, affect and relationality.

Radical Tenderness is a term that Dani first encountered through her collaboration with the transnational performance collective La Pocha Nostra, with whom she worked between 2008-2016. Since then she has been engaged in a deeper quest to explore what radical tenderness, as a concept-practice-affect means and does at a personal, political and existential level. A first radical tenderness manifesto was written by Dani in collaboration with Daniel B.Chavez in 2015."

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