Danja Burchard (they/them) is a curator, artist and performer who critically explores spaces for performance, art and discursive practices.
From an intersectional, queer theoretical framework, I work with knowledge practices and performative spaces where to collectively craft new visions for speculative futures.
Collabor (lat.) in perfect is collapsus. Collaborare (lat.) means to collectively elaborate something that could at all times abruptly and completely fall together. Fall together or be folded into its most compact version. ->COLLAPSE
Interested in collective processes, radical pedagogies, dissident practices, and ecologies of care, I like to play with notions of the ALMOST – or the slipperiness of figuring-it-out – to explore cultural expressions, that engage with agency. That propose speculative futures. That are accountable for the possibility of social transformation.
I am curious about the forms culture and art can take. How these are shaped.
How they can shape us. Collectively.
I am intrigued by practices, that reveal, abstract, and oppose. That re-shape. Un-Learn. Merge. Challenge and question.
My practice follows the urge to share, explore and form communities that reflect the complexity of our present and that are constituted by the principle of care, diligence and concern.
I understand art as a tool, as a practice and as an exploration that enables us to deal with our different perceptions of the now.
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Danja holds a BA in Music, Arts, Contemporary Media – Organization and Distribution from the Philipps-University Marburg and the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and an MA in Language, Communication and European Cultures. They studied Experimental Theater and Performing Arts at the Teatro Laboratorio in Barcelona under Jessica Walker and Systemic Therapy at the Systemic Center, Hamburg.
As creative producer Burchard has worked with numerous interdisciplinary artists including: Antje Velsinger / new trouble, Sarah Vanhee (bodies of knowledge, Bergen), Yohei Hamada (Push & Pull Matters), Jingyi Wang (JUDGE ME), Daniel Mariblanca & the 71 Bodies Company (In First Person), Tomás Saraceno, Nahum & the KOSMICA Institute, Millerntor Gallery, BIT Teatergarasjen amongst others.
They are a co-founder of the project space REMISE Lab for interdisciplinary art and research in Hamburg, NOGOODS; the research magazine bias (bodies in architecture and structures); i.c.a.p. (international collaborative arts productions) a platform engaging with the discourse on intersectional and inclusive creative production methods; and the performance collective PORNOTOPIAcollectivo (Barcelona).
They co-curated the process-based research project Dissident Publics: Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, the interdisciplinary programs on Empathy and Pleasure at NOGOODS and the seminar series Going Sideways – Cultural Production within fractured Systems for the Oktoberdanse Festival 2024 in collaboration with Epona Hamdan.
Burchard presented their work at the Free Home University (IT), Oktoberdanse and Meteor Festival 8NO), KMD Bergen (NO), Bergen Assembly (NO), Praxis Oslo (NO), KARMAKLUBB* Oslo (NO), Open Out Festival (NO), Konvent.0 (ES), El Pulmarejo (ES), ART_25 (DE) amongst others.
As of 2023 they are a member of the IETM Producers Network, were a fellow of the CIFAS Producers Academy (2023), and the ‘intersectional producing’ seminar by the network #strongertogether and of the Producer Academy 2024 of the Produktionshäuser.
NOGOODS
— a moving project space for performance, art and discursive practices.
A collective artistic and spatial practice run by Danja Burchard and Francisca Scapinello. Read more