publications
i.c.a.p.’s discursive platform offers publications and content related to the current global conversations around arts production and its relation to wider cultural and social competencies.
By sharing reviews, tools, methods and texts, we hope to cultivate diverse, mindful and inclusive discourse.
Happy Island (2018) by Dançando com a Diferença, directed by La Ribot
Happy Island (2018) by Dançando com a Diferença, directed by La Ribot
a review by Cristina Morales
Realizing Community
“For the arts and by the arts”: to share the stage, share the resources, knowledge, art, culture, and the audience.
An introduction to cultural production and community care at the intersection of activism, facilitation and critical practice.
written by Dayna Ash
Theatre Programme
Through the various theater programmes of the performance Happy Island by Dançando com a Diferença, directed by La Ribot, Cristina Morales tackles the ableist and exotifying strategies institutions reproduce when presenting these inclusive dance performances.
written by Cristina Morales
Collective Satisfaction
A snippet of a conversation between long-time collaborators Joni Barnard and Zee Hartmann, during the in-process residency presented by HAUT and Humus Collective, this past april in Copenhagen.
reconstructed by Zee Hartmann
The Birds, the Scientists, the Woman and Alzheimer
A critical analysis of sustainability within international performing arts practices, of cultural translation and the complexities of working towards a more inclusive international performance field.
written by Epona Hamdan
Inclusive Performing Arts Criticism: Batucada by Marcelo Evelin
A reflection on collective creation and performance-making as an exercise in reshaping social ethics. Departing from Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin’s Batucada, performed in Almada (Lisbon) Transborda Festival 2023 last 6th and 7th of May, this is an exercise in Inclusive Performing Arts Criticism.
contributions by the performers involved in the process.
Erupting Volcanoes
Review of Stamsund Teaterfestival 2023
Active ever since 1998, Stamsund Theatre Festival can be considered a reference in the Norwegian performing arts scene. By welcoming to the periphery of Europe a whole array of strong and emancipated female voices, the festival’s artistic direction shines a light on the systemic misogyny that has been shaping the land we walk on for so many centuries, giving space for the margins to reclaim both bodies and territories.
written by Francesco Chiaro
Prescient Returns
Review of Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023
Kunstenfestivaldesarts has always encouraged diversity and debate within and without the national borders. With more than 30 performances, «this edition can be seen as an adventurous journey into the abyss of language, exploring its ability to define or transform the present».
written by Francesco Chiaro and Danja Burchard
Extractivism and Art
With society’s margins more and more centred on stage, contemporary performing arts seem to be all about inclusion - but is raising awareness enough, or is this just another wave some artists are riding until exhaustion?
written by Francesco Chiaro
The Theatre to Come
Review of BIT Teatergarasjen’s Oktoberdans 2022, one of the most riveting assembly of genre- transcending international performing arts in Europe.
written by Francesco Chiaro
s-a-t // research
i.c.a.p. has an on-going investigation into the three pillars of Structure- Access - Translation and their impact on international production.