Artist statement

Sometimes

I explore the body as a depository of knowledge, emotions, memory by investigating its relationship to the gender based narratives that dominate it. Through physical durational performances, l

then

aim to generate speculative visceral experiences that transform the perception of the body and identity.

or

I explore the body within the realm of subjectivity and objectivity, by reflecting its existence as medium of communication and interaction, as gender, as construction and sex, as coalescence of mind.

Some

Inspiration comes from speculative philosophy, architecture, gender theory, C. G. Jung’s technologies of the subconscious, mythologies, new materialism, counterculture.

And

other things I have not encountered yet.

I want to

reframe intimate cultural and gender based fictions into an interrogation between body, space and time through des-identification strategies that modify and question the existence of body and spatial performance.

Also

Thinking is spatial. Space is thought. Performance is an act of daydreaming. Daydreaming is a performative act.

Important,

this statement is a fluid, amorphous and ephemeral proclamation of wavering and unruly thought processes in constant movement announced in an already passed past.

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Danja Burchard (they/them) is a cultural worker with a critical practice in curation, facilitation, creative production, performative research 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. Project ->COLLAPSE

Interested in collective processes, radical pedagogies, dissident practices, and ecologies of care, they 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, they critically explore creative production processes, performative methodologies for the exchange of knowledge, as well as collective structures within cultural practices. They are especially intrigued by process-based methods that reveal, abstract, and oppose capitalistic and patriarchal dynamics of power and representation

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 founding member 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 and the interdisciplinary programs on Empathy and Pleasure at NOGOODS and are currently curating the seminar series Going Sideways – Cultural Production within fractured Systems for the Oktoberdanse Festival 2024 together with Epona Hamdan.

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. Burchard is currently a fellow of the Producer Academy 2024 of the Produktionshäuser.