MELT Reading Group: Body Magic – An Embodied Rebellion

In this MELT Reading Group: Body Magic – An Embodied Rebellion, participants will read one chapter from Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch,” a history of the body in the transition to capitalism rooted in the history of the persecution of the witches and the disciplining of the body; where she shows the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind.

Participants will also read an excerpt from achugar’s own writing on her “Pleasure Practice.” We will discuss and connect the dots between capitalism, labor and the body, witch hunts, colonization, racism and western civilization’s ideas of what is knowledge, anatomy, medicine, healing, ritual, spirituality, trauma and how they all relate to dance, ritual, and magic.

luciana achugar is a Brooklyn-based choreographer from Uruguay who grew as an artist in close dialogue with the NY and Uruguayan contemporary dance communities. Her work is concerned with the post-colonial world, searching for an undoing of current power structures from the inside out. 

Accessibility Notes

• This event includes auditive guidance.
• This event includes printed materials and digital readings.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Reading Group ” at least three (3) weeks prior to the event date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Reading Group.”