Professional workshop
Tina Carlisi – Intimacy as Resistance
22 ⇾ Sep. 25 2025 (Monday – Thursday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$80
Drop-in:$28
Monday & Tuesday only
Teaching Language: English
Questions can be asked in:
French, English
Categories
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary
© Eli Kerr
Objective
This workshop explores authentic movement, resistance poetry, experiential drawing, performative actions and ritual as tools for witnessing and bearing witness. How can acts of receiving and being received cultivate sacred spaces for individual and collective liberation? We will explore themes such as decolonizing language, the erotics of liberation and the role of the senses and emotions as sources of creative inspiration.
The objective of this workshop is to co-create a space for creative exploration and exchange different strategies for intimacy as a form of resistance. Through movement, writing, drawing, performative actions and group discussions, the aim of this workshop is for participants to take away creative processes that inspire their own practice – whether in dance, somatic, writing, performance or visual art – in poetic, political and performative ways.
The objective of this workshop is to co-create a space for creative exploration and exchange different strategies for intimacy as a form of resistance. Through movement, writing, drawing, performative actions and group discussions, the aim of this workshop is for participants to take away creative processes that inspire their own practice – whether in dance, somatic, writing, performance or visual art – in poetic, political and performative ways.
Content
This workshop will have a different theme each day that builds upon one another to delve into the question “how can acts of receiving and being received cultivate sacred spaces for individual and collective liberation?” Each session will involve check-ins, various types of exercises related to movement, mark making, rituals, performative actions, group discussions on shared readings and exploratory exercises, and each session will end with a debrief/check out.
Workshop Rhythm
~ Adaptable to the group’s needs
~ Variable
Accessibility Features
~ Cardio exercices
~ Exercices are adaptable
~ High music or sound level
~ Intense emotional work
~ Physical contact between participants
~ Short verbal explications
~ Standing up for a long time
~ Sub-groups exercices
~ Visual support (i.e.documentation, texts…)
Biography
Tina Carlisi’s artistic practice explores intimacy, ritual, and the intersection of the poetic and the political through participatory performance, poetry, and diy printmaking. Driven by a desire for radical pedagogy, creativity, and community, she is involved in various communal projects and residencies, offering experiential workshops that address themes such as radical softness and poetry/poetic actions as forms of resistance. In 2022, Tina completed a PhD in Fine Arts at Concordia University, focusing on squatting communities in Copenhagen, London, and Barcelona. Her research investigates the intimacies that emerge at the intersection of communal living, learning, and creativity, using poems and drawings to articulate the emotional knowledge of her field research. In 2023, Tina received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to develop a participatory performance piece she is currently working on in collaboration with Collectif NU.E.S., titled The Lovers · Les amoureux·ses.
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
