| Manchester 2023 ISPA - Maria Aberg |
 Maria AbergArtistic Director Maria Aberg is an award-winning director, writer and the founding and artistic director of PROJEKT EUROPA, an artist collective, advocacy group and arts organisation creating migrant-led work at the intersection of performance, co-creation and participation. She has made work for venues including the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court, Dramaten and Staatstheater Mainz. She has been an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2017 and has directed over ten productions there, including As You Like It, The Duchess of Malfi and King John. Her current practice sits between participation and performance, working with migrant artists to explore notions of identity, locality and the juxtaposition between personal and collective history. By working multilingually she actively challenges the colonial assumption that underpins the dominance of the English language, and as a result her work is often choreographic, focusing on the imperfect body as a site of knowledge and experience and the physical/visual as the central gesture of expression. Speaker |
