Danja Burchard (they/them) is a curator and performer with a critical practice dedicated to discursive practices, performance and writing as well as questioning, listening, (un-) learning, and thinking.
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 play with notions of the almost- or the slipperiness of figuring-it-out as a basis for notions of agency, speculative futures and social transformation.
From a queer theoretical framework, I aim to critically explore creative production processes, performative, discursive practices for the exchange of knowledge.
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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, architecture and discursive practices.
A collective artistic and spatial practice run by Danja Burchard and Francisca Scapinello. Read more