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Contact performance and video |
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Contact (SubTerra) |
Contact (Deek) |
Based on "contact improvisation," a form of contemporary dance in which movement dialogues are developed through weight-sharing and physical touch, the three performance videos in Contact chronicle my extension of these principles into embodied engagement with site. Each of these video performance works chronicle my embodied, haptic, proprioceptive dialogues with site. While my starting place is the extension of contact improvisation techniques to my physical engagement with site, each work develops through unique and distinctive dialogues. That the application of similar physical engagement technique results in widely different dialogues and outcomes in different places highlights the particularity of all sites, and the importance and immense potential of site responsive interaction. |
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Contact (Littoral) performance and video Contact (Littoral) shows my physical interaction with the rocks, boulders, ocean, and creatures in an intertidal zone on the east coast of Vancouver Island, unceded K'ómoks First Nation territory. |
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Contact (SubTerra) performance and video Contact (SubTerra )chronciles my embodied engagement with the subsurfaces of prairie land that has never been tilled. The performance was conducted as part of the In the Hole Residency on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, in May 2017. |
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Contact (Deek) performance and video Contact (Deek) is a new performance and video work that I am currently developing as Artist in Residence on Lulu Island in the Fraser River estuary, unceded Coast Salish territory in Richmond BC. With Contact (Deek), I am investigating the margins of land and water in the ditches that run like veins through this sea level river island. |
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