Position Title
Past FRI Postdoctoral Fellow
Artist-Researcher
Caro Novella cultivates health justice within lineages of experimental dance, transfeminist activism/mutual aid, and research-creation. Improviser, community artist, cancer doula, writer and educator, Caro’s work centers somatic and movement practices as tools to collectively examine structures of inequality and to co-create being well. In 2011 created oncogrrrls (making performance pieces with folks who care about cancer) and in 2019 started co-sense lab (ritual actions for collective synching with silkworm colonies). Caro’s work has been featured at Exhibitions and Festivals on Biomedia/Art and medicine and Transfeminist health justice Gatherings in Hangar (Barcelona), La Alhondiga Museum (Bilbao), Amoqa Queer Art Museum (Athens), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Querétaro (Mexico), SomArts (San Francisco), Emmetrop Festival (France), SummerWorks Festival (Canada). Caro’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Mellon Foundation, Kettering Institute, and others. Caro’s writing is featured in journals on Embodiment, Health Communication and Cultural and Performance Studies, such as TDR and Performance Research, and is co-editor of the forthcoming compilation Being Well: Transfeminist practices for Care and Justice in Spain. Caro holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with an emphasis on Feminist Science.