Diana De Fex is a performance artist, choreographer, pedagogue and cultural mediator. Born in Medellín, she currently lives between Leticia (Amazonas), Medellín and Frankfurt.

 

She is interested in the healing and critical potential of the arts, and her work researches, by means of somatics, anarchivism and other minor practices, decolonial gestures, post-humanist ecologies, politics of memory, migration, public space and freedom of expression. Her current research focuses on collective and interpersonal mourning practices.

Diana experiments with different formats in her artistic work, such as live performance, video-essay/video-performance, audio-guided walks, performative intervention in urban environment and installation. As a pedagogue and cultural manager, her most recent work has been the exchange of artistic and gardening practices called Itinerant Geographies. She is also a facilitator of forum-theater and has worked with other forms of Theater of the Oppressed and collective devising in community theater and dance contexts with a diversity of populations such as refugees, psychiatric patients, prison inmates, people with addiction problems, the elderly, people with dis/abilities, LGBTIQ+ communities and youth from low-income households.