Giulia Damiani and Bita Bell: Porous and Eruptive: Choreographic Practices of Interruption

In the Porous and Eruptive: Choreographic Practices of Interruption two-part event series, guest artists Giulia Damiani and Fellow Bita Bell bring together artistic research, embodied writing, and movement.

Part 1 – Monday, 30.03.2026, 16.00 – 18.00, Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck
Giulia Damiani will present her doctorate and long-term research and collaboration with Le Nemesiache; a feminist collective active in the 1970s and 1980s in Naples, Italy. Her embodied research, terminologies, and practices include ‘porousness’, ‘eruptiveness’ and focus on sensorial vocabularies for political protest. Additionally, Giulia will share her publication Ritual and Display (2022); a collection that centers feminist, queer, and indigenous approaches to myth, magic and landscape. The psycho-fable — a creation method introduced by Le Nemesiache — nourishes her recent performance work Heart Brake and Apologies of Fire which will be presented in Part 2.

Part 2 – Tuesday, 31.03.2026, 16.00 – 18.00, BRUX Freies Theater, Innsbruck
In the second part of this program, Bita and Giulia, will lead a movement-based workshop derived from their choreographic practices and research on improvisational scores, self-produced sound and embodied writing in relation to public space and environment. Giulia will present materials from her current performance project Apologies for Fire. Together, the artists question and explore how the sensitivities and awareness of the body can activate its role as an agent in relation to its environment.

Text: Bita Bell and Giulia Damiani

Accessibility:

On-site:
Part 1 will take place at Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen. Unfortunately, this venue is not wheelchair accessible. We cordially invite wheelchair users and people with hearing impairments to participate in the event via Zoom. The Zoom broadcast offers the option to enable subtitles. Restrooms are marked as gender-neutral. Seating with backrests and armrests is available, as well as the option to sit on the floor. Additionally, there is sufficient space to accommodate mobility aids of all kinds.

Part 2 will take place at the BRUX Theater. The BRUX is located on the lower floor of the building and can be reached via the stairs or barrier-free via the elevator. For further information, please visit: https://www.brux.at/kontakt/.

Online:
Part 1 is hybrid and will be held in English. You can either attend in person at the Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen or follow the event online via Zoom. To participate via Zoom, please send an email with the subject line “Zoom Link: Bita” to office@buchsenhausen.at. You will receive the Zoom link via email approximately one hour before the event begins.

Part 2 is not hybrid.

Giulia Damiani is a performance maker and researcher based in Amsterdam whose works are provocative performative situations often starting from a sound investigation, posing urgent questions about violence, language, and a mythical and ecological territory. Her latest work Heart Brake was shown internationally and at Frascati in December. She holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths University for which she wrote about Le Nemesiache’s feminist collective and created performances inspired by their work.
https://giuliadamiani.eu/