Joy Inside Our Tears will leave London - Wellcome Collection this week 21st - 27th March 2022, so if you did not go these are the last days.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Joy Inside Our Tears at Konsthall C Stockholm
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Last weeks to watch
Joy Inside Our Tears
Harold Offeh
Jul 15, 2021 - Feb 27, 2022, Wellcome Collection, London
Performers: Harold Offeh, Veronica Codova de la Rosa, Samra Mayanja, Ebun A Sodipo
Choreography: Vânia Gala
Photography & vinyl installation design: Eloise Calandre
Sound design: Xana
Project support: Jack Scott, James Jordan Johnson
Friday, October 01, 2021
Exhibition highlights | 'Joy' curator tour | Wellcome Collection
Joy curators Tour - Wellcome Collection Exhibition Joy
Choreographing Joy
Friday 22 October 2021, 15:00—16:30
- Free
- Workshop
- British Sign Language
What you’ll do
Experience the power of dance in an online movement workshop with choreographer Vania Gala.
Following a warm-up, Gala will introduce you to the meditative and trance-like state
that dancing can evoke as you move to music from Harold Offeh’s ‘The Joy Inside Our Tears’
installation.
No previous experience is required and you’ll be invited to move in whatever way is comfortable for you.
The workshop will be a live closed event with a small group of people, which will not be recorded.
We encourage cameras to be on so you can dance with others and ask questions.
After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.
About your contributorsHarold Offeh
Harold Offeh
(he/him)
Curator
Harold Offeh is a UK-based artist working in a range of media including performance, video,
photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by inhabiting
or embodying histories, using humour to confront the viewer with historical narratives and
contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain
and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects (London), Kettle’s Yard, Wysing Arts Centre
Studio (Cambridge), Studio Museum Harlem (New York), MAC VAL (France) Kunsthal Charlottenborg
(Denmark) and Art Tower Mito (Japan). He recently completed a PhD exploring the activation of
Black album covers through performance. He is a Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University and a tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
Vânia Gala
(she/her)
Choreographer
Vânia Gala is a choreographer and researcher. Gala's choreographies and conversational
performances explore the critical potential of (non)performance(s) and opacity in the present time.
Her interests lie in critical dance studies, performance philosophy and experimental practices with
an emphasis on notions of refusal, choreo-thinking, fugitivity, improvisation(s), negotiation, dissensus, hospitality and value.
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Joy Inside Our Tears - Wellcome Collection
Joy Inside Our Tears opened this week at the Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection . The work explores the power and pleasure of social dance and duration to overcome societal trauma. Made during the lockdown this past winter. The work is presented as part of the Joy and Tranquility exhibitions from 15 July 2021—27 February 2022.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Press link above for video
Credits:
Dancer - Vania Gala
Soundtrack - DJ Johnny
Camera - Ines Amado; Sandro Resende
Producers - Paul Goodwin; Bruno Malveira
Director - Sonia Boyce
Special thanks to: Ines Amado; Paul Goodwin; P28
Dance of Belem - a Sonia Boyce project (2011)
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Mesa para Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou De Pernas para o Ar
Vânia Gala e participantes
22 Nov. 2019 | Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian
Fotos Gomes, S e Marques, L




Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Mesa de Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou de Pernas para o Ar
Vânia Gala e participantes
22 Nov. 2019 | Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Mesa para Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou De Pernas para o Ar
Vânia Gala e participantes
22 Nov. 2019
- "Trouxa" ou objecto criado no âmbito do espectáculo "Que Ainda Alguém Nos Invente", textos sobre Njinga pela companhia Griot | Objecto cénico de Mariana Monteiro
- Cartão (textos traduzidos por Apolo de Carvalho)
Thursday, November 07, 2019
Encontros Internacionais A Minha (nossa) posição
Encontros Internacionais Where I (we) Stand
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
Corpos Dissidentes | Cidades Rebeldes
Sala José Gomes Ferreira10h Seminário 1 - corporalidades dissidentes e bodyabilities com Luciana Hartmann (Br) e Allende Renck (Br) e Gabe Passareli (Br) e Vânia Gala (Uk/Pt)
- Performance-Jogo Marcia Vaitsman (Br) “O Jogo das Ilhas” (Na Biblioteca, apenas para 1 pessoa)
- Deriva performativa “A noiva” com Marília Ennes Becker (Br)
- Performance de Telma João Santos (Pt) “Perfect Landscape [to let your
- Instalação-expositiva de Herberto Smith (fotografo, Pt) e Emiliano Dantas (Br) “O museu das invasões”
- Caminhada sensorial-performativa com Filipe Reis e estudantes Pós-Graduação em Culturas Visuais Digitais do ISCTE-IUL e Rede dos Doutorandxs
Sala José Gomes Ferreira14.30h - Seminário 2 – corporalidades, feminismos, racializações e migrações com Joacine Katar Moreira, Francesca de Luca/Helena Elias (Ita/Pt), Telma João Santos (Pt) e Marcia Vaitsman (Br)
- Tv Chelas de Sam the Kid (Pt, excertos)
- Performances no Planeta Break de Otávio Raposo (Br/Pt, 6’23’’)
- Domingo de Vitor Grunvald e Paulo Mendel (Br, 26’)
- Ayopalli de Paula Barreto (Br, 13’)
- El amor no mata (5’17’’) e Trozos Rostros (2’22’’) de Carlos Alcalde (Esp)
- (estou-me)a lixar (5’11’’) de Ana Santos
- The Elephant Cage de Marcia Vaitsman (Br, 12’30’’)
- Vamos ser ouvidos de Murillo Guimarães (Br, 3’03’’)
- Performance-Oficina “Práticas de Des-Imunização” de Fernanda Eugénio e Dani D’Emilia
café9.30h “café e dois dedos de conversa” – café da manhã e pequeno almoço com café, bolinhos e fruta, roda de conversa com Júnior Abalos (Br), Amaya Sumpsi (Esp) e Vitor Grunvald (Br) apresentando as atividades do dia e diálogo com artistas
Sala José Gomes Ferreira10h – Seminário 3 – corporalidades, intersecionalidades e artes e rua com Ángeles Montalvo Chaves (Esp), Flávio Sousa (Br) Carlos Alcalde (Perú/Esp) e Ricardo Campos/Júnior Abalos (Pt/Br) e Paulo Raposo (Pt)
Sala Infanto-Juvenil
- Performance-Jogo Marcia Vaitsman (Br) “O Jogo das Ilhas” (Na Biblioteca, apenas para 1 pessoa)
- Performance Carlos Alcalde “Un extraño en mundo más extraño” (Perú/Esp) 15’
- Performance Tathiane Mattos (Br) “Pode o subalterno falar?”15’
- Performance de Gabe Passarelli (Br) “Como sugerir detalhe” 15’
Sala José Gomes Ferreira15h – Seminário 4 - corporalidades, arquivos e imagens com Scott Head (Br) “arquivos gestuais”, Filipe Reis (Pt) “arquivos sonoros” e José Paulo Silva “novos arquivos na biblioteca” (Pt, Coordenador da Biblioteca Municipal de Marvila)
- Projeto Aguinenso
- Projeto Estéticas e Transições: contra o espaço público de Frank Marcon (Br)
- Projeto Callejear de Flávio Sousa (Br)
- Projeto Buala de Marta Lança e Hugo Dinis (Pt)
- Projeto Cartografias da Margem de Ana Lúcia Ferraz (Br)
- Projeto Museu das Invasões Emiliano Dantas e Herberto Smith (Br-Pt)




















