Announcing! MA Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies Artist in Residence 2020-2021 is Rajinder Singh

‘Decolonising the Body, Decolonising the Mind’ - Rajinder Singh is the UCD MA Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies Artist in Residence 2020-2021

Rajinder Singh:

'Choreography is a score for a bodily or movement practice that purveys a politics. Through choreography, power relations and ideological effects can be rendered visible. My work with choreography enters domains beyond the aesthetic, and to me any piece of choreography can be seen as the product of choices that represent the social and political consequences of a given action.

'I am interested in how choreography and the moving body create conditions of resistance to different hegemonic regimes such as colonialism and capitalism as well as magico-religious belief systems. I think of the intercultural encounter as performative, as a choreographed activity. And I think of any kind of oppression or discrimination as a type of choreopolicing -- a prevention of any formation or expression of the political. How do choreopolitics interact with the choreopolicing of oppression within/during any intercultural encounter? Using choreographic practice as a frame of reference, can new resonances be developed through the innovative spirit of creative praxes to sensitise the body to meaningful intercultural encounters?

'In this residency, I will be exploring questions like:

• How does the project of 'decolonising the mind' relate to the project of 'decolonising the body'?
• What are the possibilities of other ways of thinking about interculturality through the bodypolitics of knowledge?
• Is it possible to learn from the movements of the Other in an intercultural encounter?'

You can learn more about Rajinder's work on his website.

The MA Race, Migration and Declolonial programme is run by Assistant Professor Alice Feldman at the UCD School of Sociology.  A Graduate Diploma is also available.  More information on the programme and subject matter can be found through the UCD programme info page and the   programme website.

If you're interested in speaking to someone about applying please contact:

Lucia Suchorova
lucia.suchorova@ucd.ie
Masters Programme Administrator
+353 1 716 8674
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Alice Feldman, Programme Coordinator
alice.feldman@ucd.ie

Go to the link at the bottom of this page to apply.