Performance Lecture & Workshop Care as Resistance: Challenging the Colonial Politics of the Body | 12 December, Budapest, Hungary

Beyond Walls Performance Lecture & Workshop Care as Resistance: Challenging the Colonial Politics of the Body | Budapest, Hungary

📆 Thursday, 12 December I 6 PM
📍@isbn_plus Contemporary Art Centre and Bookshop, Budapest, Hungary

We’re thrilled to share that Beyond Walls has been invited to give a performance lecture for the Beyond Bare Life project, curated by Eszter Lázár and Edina Nagy from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. This academic and artistic project explores care regimes—the intricate relationship between health policies, biopolitics, and state control over the body. By examining case studies from the socialist past of Eastern Europe and colonial histories, it unveils oppressive mechanisms enacted in the name of care, shaped by patriarchy and colonial supremacy.

Care as Resistance: Challenging the Colonial Politics of the Body
Care is a deeply relational and collective practice disrupted by the forces of colonialism and imperialism. How can care become a tool for decolonization, fostering self-determination, healing, and collective well-being? Beyond Walls explores this question by highlighting historical examples of care regimes in colonial contexts as well as everyday personal and communal acts of resistance rooted in care.

Through a decolonial and diasporic lens, Beyond Walls unpacks the legacies of colonial control over the body and shares their personal and collective connections to care—not just as an individual practice but as a communal effort rooted in solidarity and resilience. Beyond Walls invites participants to engage with decolonial and diasporic practices that challenge colonial erasures and reclaim agency over personal and collective well-being.

We are grateful for this opportunity to contribute to this dialogue! Stay tuned for updates from Budapest.

Hope to meet you this Thursday, 12 December I 6 PM