With SABOT, Sara Manente explore how to give form and movement to a sense of ruination of the body and of language, within the tension between decomposition and composition. Developed through a series of residency periods conceived as research laboratories, the project unfolds in dialogue with Sandrine R. Schiller, AI philosopher, and Chris Tegho, machine learning engineer, initiating a collaboration between performing arts, philosophy, and technology.

At BUDA, she will work with longterm collaborator Marcos Simoes, performance artist and weaver. SABOT—short for self-sabotage —investigates the place of desire and labour in a time marked by environmental, economic, affective, and political breakdown.

Sara Manente (IT/BE)

Sara Manente studied dance and semiotics before moving to Brussels, where she works as an artist and researcher. Drawing on the imagery and matter of living cultures and mycelium brought into relation with live arts, her projects reflect on the possibility of cross-pollination between pedagogy, research, performance and publication. The result can take different forms: from an installation or performance to a magazine.