This is the second episode of the LACE Symposium podcast, the official podcast of the LACE Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices.

The host of this episode, dance artist, educator, and curator of LACE Symposium pavleheidler (pav) (they/them) (adhd/autism), talks to Tereza Silon (ona/they), dance artist, herbalist, and one of the hosts of this year's LACE Extended spaces.

This conversation travels through the intimate terrain of the queer body, its messiness, its beauty, and its entanglement with land. We talk about care, resistance, eroticism, and queerness, and reference gender, patriarchy, and the sanitization of bodies and spaces. Including but not limited to bodily functions and meandering critical reflections on power, pleasure, and precarity. Take care while listening.

The central question the conversation revolves around is, What does your experience of being a dance artist and communicating through the medium of dance affords you; what kind of observational capacity, what kind of capacity to act?

This is the second in a series of conversations held with contributors to this year's symposium. With this series we are hoping to introduce the symposium, its curators, and the contributors to the public in anticipation of the event itself. In our conversations, we are committed to "leading by example". We're hoping that what we say and how we say it will introduce us in an affective way, in a different capacity perhaps from our bios and CVs. To find out more about who we are, and read our bios, please visit ⁠www.lacesymposium.com⁠.

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Tereza talks about Barbora Lungová, whom you can learn more about here. You can learn more about about the land protection union note we talk about here. The website offers a short description in the English language. For full translation, please contact your favourite online translator for help.

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LACE Extended takes place the week after the Symposium, offering the participants of the Symposium the opportunity to extend the amount of time spent in-relation to presenters and their practices, and other participants of the event.

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LACE Symposium is curated by Deirdre Morris (she/they), Sylvia Scheidl (she/her), and pavleheidler (they/them). LACE Symposium takes place in July in the context of ImPulsTanz -- Vienna International Dance Festival. LACE Symposium is supported by Erasmus+.