Silvia Bottiroli

Silvia Bottiroli, PhD, is a curator, researcher, organizer, and educator in the field of performing arts. Since 2018 she has been the artistic director of DAS Theatre in Amsterdam. Between 2012 and 2016, she directed the Santarcangelo Festival and in 2018 curated the program The May Events for KunstenFestivalDesArts in Brussels and Vooruit in Ghent. She is interested in the intersections between theoretical research, curatorial practices, and education. In these fields she has written numerous articles, focusing in particular on the politics of performativity and spectatorship. She has (co)curated artistic, discursive, and educational platforms, collaborating among others with Aleppo in Brussels, Homo Novus Festival in Riga, School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and Gent University. Since 2011 she has been teaching Methodology, Critique, and Research in the Arts at Bocconi University in Milan.

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How can we rehearse for a future we don’t have an image of?

What if we define values, principles, and methodologies, resisting the pressure to define outcomes? What if we focus on what drives us and on how we want to live and work together, but leave the imagination open to the concrete shapes our collaboration can take?