Radical Presences | First-year performances

The Politically Engaged Performance Making module, part of program at the Home of Performance Practices, introduces students to key theoretical approaches in performance studies by mapping three central axes of inquiry: representation, circulation, and resistance. It engages with current debates in the field that emerge at the intersections of bodies—both human and non-human—performance as aesthetic and social practice, and the infrastructures that shape these relations across local, national, and global contexts. Through critical reading alongside writing- and performance-based experiments, the module invites students not only to analyze theory but also to actively engage, test, and enact theoretical concepts through diverse modes of research, practice, and presentation.

Through critical self-reflection and tutorials, the students continues to develop their political performance-making as performance-as-research. Focussing on transmissibility, presentation as unfolding, and dissemination as transformation. Reinforce that “presentation” is part of the research, not its endpoint. Recognise ephemeral knowledge and unrepeatability as impactful.

We would like to invite you to join our first-year performances on the 4th of February 2026. The following students will perform:

Wiktoria Kolcon
Romana Klementis
Meng Li
Maja Franke
Derya Gunaydin
Sunay Baykal
Noemi Ferrari
Melika Shahhosseini
Lida Draganigou
Sofia Apostolidou
Johan Hogsten
Daniel Delman
Panagiotis Tsakiris