We are pleased to announce that Quincy Gario is invited as Artist in Residence at the Academy of Theatre and Dance from 12-16 December 2016. Since last academic year a collaboration between SNDO and Director’s department (Regie Opleiding) materializes in a one-week workshop with a prominent figure from the field of arts with intended focus on addressing politics and the political within the arts.
This year the invited artist is Quinsy Gario, who will work with 1st  year students of SNDO and 1st and 2nd year students of the Director’s department. This collaboration and presence of Quinsy Gario is realized with the support and within the frame of AIR – Artist in Residence program of the AHK – Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Quinsy Gario about the workshop:
‘What is liberation? What is the role of the artist towards the articulation of the political? What is democracy and the role of the artist in exploring its definition? How do you critique and propose another world? For the week long intensive together with the students I want to look at how to put progressive ethics into practice in the work that we make. Together we will be looking into decolonial thinking, Caribbean and Latin American performance art, African art and concepts of liberation, the Black, migrant and refugee women’s movement in the Netherlands and Global South radical feminist theory.’ 

The AIR programme is an initiative in conjunction with the departments of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. It stimulates innovation and facilitates encounters with contemporary art practice. It provides host faculties with the opportunity to benefit from the experience of respected artists, breathing new life into the educational and artistic structures of the Academy.

The workshop is part of the Artist in Residence (AIR) project Der Theatermacher at the Directors Department. AIR is a programme of the Amsterdam University of the Arts.