la facultad is a place where we can exercise sensory faculties that are dormant in each of us and that we want to be able to listen to, study and amplify, together, in close proximity. This “practice room”, designed by Catalina Insignares and Myriam Lefkowitz and run in collaboration with Julie Laporte, is aimed at exiled people and those accompanying them. It combines somatic, choreographic and energetic practices, sometimes influenced by tarot readings, hypnosis or telepathy – all mediums they use to experiment with other forms of relationship with themselves, others and our social environment.
“Through these sensory experiences, we can work together to invent ways of communicating through the body, imagination and memory – ways that are not dependent on language and that can be invented with our differences – not against them, not without them, but with them. Art for the facultad would then become a place where we invent communication tools and start telling other stories about who we are, where we are, and what the future could be.”
A city walk for two where one of the walkers has his or her eyes closed, a choir for reclining bodies, a hand dance sent to an absent person, a landscape of objects and materials composed on reclining bodies, a reading of a text accompanied by touch, a practice that addresses the heart as the main vector of connection…

Catalina Insignares is a Colombian choreographer and dancer based in Paris. She studied dance in Canada and France, and completed a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen, Germany. Her work questions systems of artistic production and their relationship to society. She looks for the moment when dance generates unintelligible subjectivities and collectives. She works mainly in collaboration and in associations that last for years (Caroline Creutzburg, Carolina Mendonça, Miriam Schulte, Else Tunemyr, Zuzana Zabkova) for choreography, dramaturgy, teaching and interpretation. Her practice includes a duet danced with a participant over a few weeks (us as a useless duet) (in Giessen, Frankfurt, Bogota), a night reading addressed to sleeping bodies (useless land) (performed in Brussels, Precarious Pavilions, Beursshouwburg; Berlin, Klosterruine and MärzMusik; Paris, Ferme du Buisson) and sensory practices that listen to the links we have with the dead (ese muerto se lo cargo yo). Since 2017, she has been working with Myriam Lefkowitz as a performer and also in a collaboration that seeks to infiltrate sensory practices from their work in diverse social contexts (la facultad). In 2019, Catalina Insignares will begin a research project at DAS THIRD in Amsterdam and will be co-curator at the Gessnerallee in Zurich.

Choreographic artist, Myriam Lefkowitz’s research focuses since 2010 on questions of attention and perception, through different immersive devices involving direct relationships between spectators and artists. Myriam Lefkowitz’s work was presented at the 55th Venice Biennale («Oo», Lithuanian and Cypriot Pavilion), CAC Vilnius, Med15 (Medellin), Garage (Moscow), Creative Time Summit (Stockholm), Situations (Bristol), Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh), Kadist Foundation (Tokyo and San Francisco), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, La Galerie (Noisy-le-sec), Ferme du Buisson… After having been a student at SPEAP (master of experimentation in art and politics, Science Po, Paris founded by Bruno Latour) in 2011, she participates in the program as a member of the pedagogical committee two consecutive years. Very attached to teaching, she is regularly invited for workshops (HEAD, ERG in Brussels, Mejen in Stockholm, the Beaux-Arts of Reims, Besançon, Quimper, Angoulême, Bourges, the Ex.Erce master’s degree, the dance department of Paris 8). Between 2017 and 2018, she was commissioned by If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam). Currently she is working on a film in collaboration with the artist Simon Ripoll-Hurier, she teaches at TALM (school of art and graphics, Angers) and she continues her choreographic research as part of several invitations: the Kunst Centrum Buda (Kortrijk), the Trien-nale de Monheim and the Belluard Festival (Fribourg).