Pauli Nafer
Pauli Nafer is an in-disciplined artist living and working in NRW. She takes part in dance, theatre and film productions, as well as art actions, collective writings, and transnational interventions, sometimes as a dancer/performer/choreographer, sometimes as an actress, singer, dramaturg, curator, and so on, and so on.
She staged her first choreography at the Sala Isidora Zegers Facultad de Artes of the Universidad de Chile while still in high school. Before and during her undergraduate studies in contemporary dance, which she completed in 2011, she already worked intensively as a freelance artist for numerous dance companies, theatre collectives, performance groups and musical ensembles.
She studied German modern dance at the Centro Espiral of the Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, as well as postmodern dance techniques and compositional approaches at Universidad de las Américas with Carmen Beuchat. She later deepened her knowledge of choreography, dramaturgy, art history, theatre criticism and reception through numerous anti-institutional and semi-institutional programs. Her artistic research relates to political and sensible dimensions of dance spaces and dance communities, as well as pure mediality in art production, antiacademic philosophising, and radical decolonial practices.
She has collaborated with countless collectives such as „Compañía Tentempié“ „Compañía Circo Teatro Norte“, „NervenZellen“, „ART.62“, „Dintje Dance“, „En Degradé Colectivo“, „bailamerica DANZA“, „Colectivo UNO1“, „Proyecto Ekeka“, „Kollektiv Plakativ“, „sowas in der art“, „plataforma BASTARDA“, and „[mostly] harmless“, and many others.
Her dance solos, art and film interventions and collective performances include: „Nachfühllen“, „§1 Die Paragraphin“ (2022), „Stone Sampling Session #1“, „Gesammelte Ablehnungen 2005-2021“, „Ein Lebensbescheid“ (2021), „Trabajo para todxs - Medida 36“ (2020), „Biométrica“ (2018), „zwischendurch serie I-III“ (2017), „Ich bin die Luft“ (2015), „La noche boca arriba“ (2015), und „Ingo Tanz“ (2015).
In 2022, she was curator of the digital dance installation "VELAR Tänze trauern", as well as co-curator of the discourse format “Zeit und Arbeit” for the JUBILÄUM: 10 Jahre Szenische Forschung. Since July 2022, she is also co-director of Internationale Bibliothek Ruhr, a mobile art installation that stages literatures, oral traditions, and forms of knowledge from Latin America and the Middle East in the Ruhr region.
Pauli Nafer does not speak Spanish, but Chilean Castilian, one of the slower variants of Castilian Abya Yala or Latin American, whose main feature, unlike the oral traditions of Spain, Peru or Mexico, is that it takes longer to express the core of an idea. Pauli flaunts this slow tempo in impatient regions with great pleasure.
On a significant day in 2022, Pauli Nafer began a flourishing collaboration with WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV for an indefinite period.
Pauli Nafer
Pauli Nafer is an in-disciplined artist living and working in NRW. She takes part in dance, theatre and film productions, as well as art actions, collective writings, and transnational interventions, sometimes as a dancer/performer/choreographer, sometimes as an actress, singer, dramaturg, curator, and so on, and so on.
She staged her first choreography at the Sala Isidora Zegers Facultad de Artes of the Universidad de Chile while still in high school. Before and during her undergraduate studies in contemporary dance, which she completed in 2011, she already worked intensively as a freelance artist for numerous dance companies, theatre collectives, performance groups and musical ensembles.
She studied German modern dance at the Centro Espiral of the Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, as well as postmodern dance techniques and compositional approaches at Universidad de las Américas with Carmen Beuchat. She later deepened her knowledge of choreography, dramaturgy, art history, theatre criticism and reception through numerous anti-institutional and semi-institutional programs. Her artistic research relates to political and sensible dimensions of dance spaces and dance communities, as well as pure mediality in art production, antiacademic philosophising, and radical decolonial practices.
She has collaborated with countless collectives such as „Compañía Tentempié“ „Compañía Circo Teatro Norte“, „NervenZellen“, „ART.62“, „Dintje Dance“, „En Degradé Colectivo“, „bailamerica DANZA“, „Colectivo UNO1“, „Proyecto Ekeka“, „Kollektiv Plakativ“, „sowas in der art“, „plataforma BASTARDA“, and „[mostly] harmless“, and many others.
Her dance solos, art and film interventions and collective performances include: „Nachfühllen“, „§1 Die Paragraphin“ (2022), „Stone Sampling Session #1“, „Gesammelte Ablehnungen 2005-2021“, „Ein Lebensbescheid“ (2021), „Trabajo para todxs - Medida 36“ (2020), „Biométrica“ (2018), „zwischendurch serie I-III“ (2017), „Ich bin die Luft“ (2015), „La noche boca arriba“ (2015), und „Ingo Tanz“ (2015).
In 2022, she was curator of the digital dance installation "VELAR Tänze trauern", as well as co-curator of the discourse format “Zeit und Arbeit” for the JUBILÄUM: 10 Jahre Szenische Forschung. Since July 2022, she is also co-director of Internationale Bibliothek Ruhr, a mobile art installation that stages literatures, oral traditions, and forms of knowledge from Latin America and the Middle East in the Ruhr region.
Pauli Nafer does not speak Spanish, but Chilean Castilian, one of the slower variants of Castilian Abya Yala or Latin American, whose main feature, unlike the oral traditions of Spain, Peru or Mexico, is that it takes longer to express the core of an idea. Pauli flaunts this slow tempo in impatient regions with great pleasure.
On a significant day in 2022, Pauli Nafer began a flourishing collaboration with WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV for an indefinite period.