Iury Salustiano Trojaborg

Ancestral Dramaturgies

Ancestral Dramaturgies is a dialogical artistic research method centered on cross-temporal exchanges and their subsequent transformation into dramaturgical and performative outcomes. While these exchanges utilize various formats such as interviews, they extend beyond traditional qualitative inquiry to include encounters with more-than-human entities and ancestral lineages. She positions her doctoral research as an investigation into her own positionality, tracing the tensions between her biological, migrational and spiritual ancestries.

Ancestral Dramaturgies is supported by three pillars: migration, Queerness, and decoloniality. Iury conceptualize it through a lens of critical reflexivity, analyzing the intersectional markers—gender, sexuality, racialization, class, and neurodivergence—that constitute her existence as a non-binary, diasporic interdisciplinary artist of colour. This practice interrogates the capacity for creative agency within white Western European contexts that frequently marginalize Global South subjects.

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