Dali – Performance Philosophy

Author: Dali

Dalila Honorato is a facilitator of safe spaces for hosting the interaction of ideas around liminal issues in the frame of Art and Science. Her research is focused on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny and the acrobatic balance between phobia and paraphilia. She is professor in aesthetics and visual semiotics at the Ionian University, Greece, and collaborator at the Centre of Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. One of the founding members of the Interactive Arts Lab, she is the head of the steering committee of the conference “Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art and Science”, and together with Marta de Menezes, she is conceptualizer and developer of the project “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology”.

The 7th Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2027 Vienna) will take place from 14 to 17 September 2027 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte), Austria. First held in 2016 at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, TTT facilitates critical dialogue across art, science, technology, and society, bringing together artists, researchers, scholars, curators, and interdisciplinary practitioners. Taking the placenta as both a biological reference and a conceptual framework for relationality, temporality, and interdependence, TTT2027 Vienna invites critical perspectives on care, artistic autonomy, and transformation. The conference welcomes interdisciplinary and practice-based artistic research, alongside theoretical…