This conversation features artist Montserrat Gardó Castillo and is led by Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher in the context of their work on cultures of extraction. They talk about collaboration, the naked body, and rules of engagement.
Montserrat Gardó Castillo is a performance artist. She studied dance at the Institut del Teatre/Barcelona and at the Folkwang UdK/Essen as well as journalism at the URL/Barcelona. She is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Humanities and Contemporary Art at the UOC/Barcelona. After working with VA Wölfl/NEUER TANZ (2009 to 2017), she started creating her own work together with Petr Hastik and supported by FFT Düsseldorf and Urbane Künste Ruhr, amongst others. Besides, she collaborates with artists such as Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Heiner Goebbels, Alexander Giesche, Tino Sehgal, Alexandra Pirici, La Fleur, SEE! and Costa Compagnie. She was nominated twice for the Förderpreis für Darstellende Kunst in Düsseldorf and received the Ground Support Prize of the NRW Kultursekretariat. In the 2021-22 season she has been curating the series: “Politics of Invitation” at FFT Düsseldorf together with Monika Gintersdorfer and Annick Choco; and for the last two years she has been working on the topic of brutalism, with works online and two site-specific performances in NRW.
More about Montse: https://montseandpetr.com/
https://www.fft-duesseldorf.de/komplizinnen/montserrat-gardo-castillo
Politics of Invitation: https://www.fft-duesseldorf.de/reihen-festivals/politics-of-invitation
we mentioned:
The Celestial Wheel, a book by Ursula K. Le Guin
Europa, a film by Lars von Trier
we played:
Mad Kate – My Fear of Pretending (featuring Lori Baldwin)
