lcorcuera@riseup.net
http://ucm.academia.edu/LauraCorcuera
She has a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a master’s degree in Semiotics of mass communication, with the thesis The scene as a tool of sociopolitical dynamization. Without high heels or pearl earrings, she was the Press Officer at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, (MNCN/CSIC) between 2005 and 2007, founded the Periódico del MNCN and also the science news agency SINC (FECYT), where she worked as coordinator and chief editor from September 2007 to December 22, 2010.
She is a founder and member of the newspaper DIAGONAL, where she writes about science, sexual and gender diversity, LGBTQIA movements and performing arts, an area that she coordinates for the supplement Culturas. She has collaborated with the theater magazines Primer Acto and Artez. Since 2014 she has collaborated with the international magazine Punto y Coma.
She combines her work and militant communication with feminist activism and performance. She’s no taller than 5’2’’, but she has studied with great teachers like Jango Edwars, Phillipe Gaulier, Eric de Bont, Esther Ferrer, Antonia Baehr and el Odin Teatret, among others. Her last performative experience was realized in conjunction with the US collective La Pocha Nostra (Atenas, June 2015).
Professional Experience
Editor of the volumen La Imaginación Hipotecada. Madrid: Avuelapié, 2016.
Artistic Director of Noches Golfas, DIAGONAL Newspaper. Madrid: 2010-12.
Artistic Director of Festival Braojos Escena Abierta (BEA). Braojos: 2011-13.
Translator from French to Spanish of the novel of Virginie Despentes Bye Bye Blondie. Pollen Edicions, 2013.
Coordinator and editor of El Orgullo es Nuestro, Movimientos de liberación sexual en el Estado español. Madrid: Ediciones Diagonal, 2012.
Founder, member of the Board of Editors, and coordinator of the Education and Science and Performing Arts sections of the twice-monthly newspaper Diagonal. 2004-16. www.diagonalperiodico.net
Contributor to the theater magazine Primer Acto. 2006-10.
Co-organizer and Lecturer in Media For Science Forum. Madrid, 2010.
Editor in Chief for the Scientific Information and News Service (SINC), Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT). 2007-10. www.agenciasinc.es
Founder, coordinator and editor in chief of the Newspaper of the National Museum of Natural Science (CSIC). 2006-08. Currently editor. www.mncn.csic.es
Press Officer and Community Manager of the National Museum of Natural Science (CSIC). 2005-07.
Selected Performances
2019
OPERACIÓN LEGAZPIX
2018
PEEP BOX
BAILAR UN PRESUPUESTO
FOLDING JAMÓN WITH BIRD AND CUCUMBER
RED LINE
REAL SEA
HUMANIMALS
LA VEJEZ
FACHADA EUROPA
2017
EMOCIÓN EXPANDIDA O UNA HISTORIA DE LA EXPANSIÓN
TENSIONES EN ÁNGULO DE 90 GRADOS
BAILE DE DISFRACES
ESTO HA DEJADO DE SER UN DESIERTO
S.O.S.TENER(NOS)
P.E.C.
2016
LA BAÑERA
PORNCHORUS DITIRAMBO
AYER ES HOY O EL DÍA QUE MURIÓ LA THATCHER
LA OLA FLOTANTE
FETICHE EUROPA
2015
EMBODIMENT OF SCIENCE
RITUALES DE AUTOCENSURA
EXCRETA
ROZAR
TERRITPIES OF CRISIS
GEOGRAFÍA DE UNA ACCIÓN ANIMAL
2007-11
CLOWNCAPITALISMO
EN LA COLA DEL PARO
EL BESO
JADEOS
PIEL DE PLÁSTICO
ESTE ES MI QUEERPO
BLACKOUT (DE NANNI BALESTRINI)
Research and Publications
Director, Curator and researcher of the Cycle PERFORMAR LO INDECIBLE, Madrid, october 2018- March 2019.
Member of the research project UNA CIUDAD MUCHOS MUNDOS 2, Intermediae Matadero. Madrid, 2018-19.
Author of La Ruta de la Performance, Pikara Magazine, 2017.
Author of the chapter OUTING, collective book Barbarismos Queer y otras esdrújulas, Coord. Lucas R. Platero Méndez, María Rosón y Esther Ortega, Ed, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2017.
Author FETICHE EUROPA- Laboratory Performance Research. Pedagogies of Performance Art and colaborative practices. Materic, Hospitalet de Llobregat, 2016.
Collaborator of the research Project UNA CIUDAD MUCHOS MUNDOS, 2015-16.
Co-author EXCRETA. BioPerfoLab with the artist Monica Cofiño, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC. Madrid, 2015.
Author EMBODIMENT OF SCIENCE- Congreso de Comunicació de la Ciencia, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Centre BonneMaison and Can Vies. Barcelona, 2015.
Cofounder, designer and producer of La Selecta, Coffee Laboratory of the Arts and Sciences. Buitrago del Lozoya, Mountains of Madrid, Spain.
Co-author Ayer es Hoy o el Día que Murió La Thatcher XVI Encuentro de mujeres de Iberoame rica en las artes escenicas, Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Cádiz, 2012.
Co-author “Cuerpos Clown” (Clown bodies), performing research mixing performance, clown, plastic arts and scientific dissemination. In collaboration with Rotonda Teatro. Ibiza, Berlín, Braojos and Madrid. 2011-13.
Contributor to Voces desde los Feminismos, Entrevistas diversas y singulares. Madrid, Ediciones Diagonal, 2011.
Production of biographical research into Jean-François Fonson. Coordinated by Jean Puissant. Du journalisme à l’adventure du theatre: Jean- François Fonson 1870- 1924, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 2000-01.