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SUMMARY:Detours\, Derives\, and Derailleurs - Raphi Soifer
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DESCRIPTION:Detours\, Derives\, and Derailleurs is an experiential and col
 laborative interdisciplinary workshop that combines performance studies an
 d creative writing practices in a novel approach to urban studies in order
  to examine relationships between cycling\, embodied memory\, and cultural
  memory. Utilizing simple performance exercises and storytelling technique
 s\, the workshop aims to guide participants in exploring connections betwe
 en different narratives based on their lived experiences as cyclists in ci
 ty spaces\, both in terms of their current practices\, their affective mem
 ories\, and their visions and hopes for the future of cycling. Over the co
 urse of the workshop\, participants will experiment with different forms o
 f bike-centred narrative practices and theatre games. The workshop will cu
 lminate with the collective creation of a group-driven narrative “derive
 .”\n\nMichel de Certeau famously compares the act of walking in the city
  to narrating and inscribing experiences in urban spaces. This workshop po
 sits that urban cycling is a related but distinct form of articulating our
  bodies’ experiences as they traverse different territories and come int
 o contact with a variety of landscapes\, topographies\, and other bodies. 
 Exploring some of the memories that these different forms of contact produ
 ce – both within individual bodies\, embedded into the geography of citi
 es\, and as part of  larger structures of cultural memory – is a central
  focus of the workshop.\n\nDrawing on a variety of sources – including C
 erteau\, Guy Debord\, the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology\, and a ran
 ge of cycling-specific literature – the workshop proposes an interactive
  and playful examination of individual\, embodied\, and collective memory 
 in which intellectual and creative expression go hand in hand\; in which d
 ifferent experiences of protagonism can be explored and in which individua
 l memories of biking in city spaces spur collective creation and can serve
  as inspiration for future planning.
LOCATION:Room 2 (Lecture Room 2.1)
URL:https://pretalx.com/crbam-2026/talk/3JQGFA/
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SUMMARY:Pedaling Positionalities: Space\, Practice\, and Identity - Raphi 
 Soifer
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DESCRIPTION:This research combines urban studies\, performance studies\, a
 nd autoethnography to examine cycling in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, investi
 gating complex relations between territory\, movement\, and belonging in t
 he city. The text approaches urban cycling through Henri Lefebvre’s conc
 ept of “spatial practice\,” situating it within the increasingly recog
 nized field of practice-as-research. As such\, it considers biking in the 
 city as not only offering unique experiences in terms of autonomy\, perspe
 ctive\, and access within urban spaces\, but also as comprising the founda
 tion for a research methodology in its own right. Drawing on the work of p
 rominent Brazilian performance scholars Leda Maria Martins and Jota Momba
 ça\, the text views cycling as an embodied practice\, expressive of indiv
 idual bodies within specific spaces\, as well as a range of social formati
 ons\, contested geographies\, and  forms of cultural memories. \n\nThe tex
 t utilizes an autoethnographic approach\, examining specificities of indiv
 idual biking experiences in Rio de Janeiro as a means of investigating bro
 ader issues\, especially the city’s tremendous social and economic dispa
 rities. The author’s personal experiences as a white\, foreign-born cycl
 ist are by no means intended to be wholly representative of the vast array
  of experiences of other cyclists in the city. Instead\, they are intended
  to explore specific positionalities\, especially in light of recent “re
 vitalization” programs that\, in addition to making the city more bike-f
 riendly\, have resulted in large-scale acts of violent repression and in m
 ass displacements affecting tens of thousands of primarily Black and econo
 mically marginalized city residents. The text wrestles with this apparent 
 paradox: in Rio\, the practice of cycling continues to allow unparalleled 
 access to the city even as the discourse of cycling is utilized to make th
 e city ever more segregated. Thus\, biking in the city is not an escape ro
 ute\, but rather a direct path through Rio’s crushing inequalities.
LOCATION:Room 2 (Lecture Room 2.1)
URL:https://pretalx.com/crbam-2026/talk/ZLY7EY/
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