Credits to Peter Kers
Flipchart
Over the last three years, I have been curating more than 20 episodes of Flipcharts at the Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii). Following my performative and artistic research, I investigated the different forms of performance, when and where they start and how they become an integral support of an artistic practice.
Within my curation, I aim to bring together diverse states of experience to stimulate cross-pollination during the professionalisation process from students, to semi-professionals all the way to deeply embedded artists.
These performance evenings stretched from ecological, through theatre, all the way to dance workshops.
Special thanks to the iii team and the support
© 2025, Leon Lapa Pereira
Credits to Peter Kers
Aris Leon Lapa Pereira (he/him) is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher exploring the boundaries of performative life. Deeply embedded in the landscape of Artistic Research, his personal practice is consistently informed by philosophical inquiry. By merging mechanical and technical knowledge with performative elements, he engages with multiple disciplines with genuine enthusiasm.
Currently focused on the de-romanticisation of nature, Leon investigates the Rights of Nature—specifically, the rights of water—in collaboration with the Embassy of the North Sea. Through this partnership, he co-founded the Confluence of European Water Bodies, a growing network of activist organisations that support his research into intercultural relationships and intimate connections with water.
Alongside this, he is a curator at the Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii) and co-founder of the WASTELAND Festival, where he leads research and performance curation through an ecological lens. Co-creation and collaboration are not just professional principles for Leon, but also sociological commitments—central to his Resonant Bodies Residencies, where these concepts are deeply explored.
For Leon, co-living is a vital practice that is increasingly endangered by today’s polycrisis. He is, therefore, continually seeking methods and tools to cultivate honest, careful, and communal environments.
