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What a body can do is a series of lectures, workshops and other events focused on collective learning about performance.

Performance has many definitions. For example, it can mean acting in front of an audience or acting according to a script. The body, here and now, becomes the center of attention. Such performances include not only theatre, concert and dance, but also sport events, meditation, or even protest, and we can trace its roots back to rituals, ceremonies, festivities.

Viewed from a broader perspective, performance can act as a lens through which we observe human behavior. Performance can also be the everyday acting out of a habit, performing various professional, gender, racial, class and other roles. However, everyday social behavior need not only serve to maintain the status quo. There is a space to act “differently”, to participate in creating new roles and identities. The social order in this notion is not a stable structure, but a dynamic system that constructs the bodies that in turn form the system itself.

In a series of regular events, we will look at performativity from different theoretical and practical perspectives. We will explore the relationship between artistic performance and “everyday life” as well as the relationships and differences between different types of performance. Our goal will be to deepen sensitivity in recognizing how we collectively and individually move through the world, construct identities and build communities, and how performativity, in its various forms, can be used as a means of individual and social change.