Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — Your language is lying to you, poetry as a territory for action by Giuliana Kiersz

Synopsis

Your language is lying to you, poetry as a territory for action is a provocation to explore the ideas, structures, and beliefs that inhabit our words. It is a poem-essay on the languages that we have inherited, the ones that we forgot, and the ones we decided to create to transform our history, name our feelings, and invent other forms of living. It reflects on embodied, contextualised, and alive writing opening questions on transformation and collectivisation, inviting us to think of poetry as an intersectional practice to intervene in our societies. For more details, visit here.

About Giuliana Kiersz

A poet, playwright, writer, and artist, Giuliana’s methods explore relationships with language. She reflects within specific contexts, to create fantasies that move social and political horizons. Giuliana intervenes through literature, performance and visual arts, to expand the political dimension of words from a feminist and decolonial perspective. Her texts received several awards including first place in the X German Rozenmacher Prize, third prize in the Argentine National Theatre Institute’s Dramaturgy Competition, and the Maison Antoine Vitez translation award. Her work has been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, and Tsotsil and published by Rara Avis Editorial, Libros del Rojas, Fondo Editorial ENSAD, Editorial INTeatro, among others.