Year 2011- 2024

Title: OncoGrrrls: What if we treat cancer as creative research?

Autors: Caro Novella

Oncogrrrls (always in lower case) is a performance activist project that aims to move cancer beyond the individualization of the experience and into collective interrogation of the structural pains of cancer. Grounding the practice in co-creation and somatic enquiry, Oncogrrrls creates joint interrogations, or exploratory rehearsals to know cancer differently. From this creative inquiry we create performance pieces that take many forms (dance and videoart, live performance and poetic texts).

"What if we treat cancer as creative research?" is an art exhibit that covers more than a decade of creative research around the question: how do we make something about "it" and how do we make it together? a long investigation on arts mediation for cancer justice that asks: how do we make cancer political through art making? The exhibit includes documentation of performance work, videos, traces of performance workshops, fanzines, literature and research about cancer that has informed the research. It also includes a participatory piece "what would you ask cancer?"

https://vimeo.com/926969757

https://oncogrrrls.art/

https://www.caronovella.net/