Ema Benčíková
© Mohamed Boshnaf
Ema Benčíková explores the critical phenomenology of trans and crip embodiment, mutual aid initiatives, and performativity of disability, through the lens of gender studies and queer theory. Her theater work is focused on community building and empowering marginalized people.
Fellowship: KEX - Kunsthalle Exnergasse
About the exhibition:
Searching for ways to create institutional support structures, processual crip/queer spaces of sustainability, emancipation and mutual aid. Exploring how the exhibition can be a socially engaged force that assists non-normative bodyminds in realizing themselves in the world.
Studying artistic and community practices that communicate through the individual body with the social body; social health initiatives, that understand these embodiments to be interdependent. Non-normative bodies disclose the presumed body for which the architecture of a shared space was created. Analyzing and restructuring these architectures of care is the aim of this project.