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SPACE BODY HABIT
Co-authored with visual artist/scenographer Elia Bosshard, SPACE BODY HABIT explores the many ways we perceive, or fail to perceive spaces. The book is a result of a two-week research residency at Frontyard, and comprises a series of spatio-somatic and phenomenologically-driven exercises, followed by in-depth discussions on themes as varied as: first impressions and knowing space by heart, body as a space and supremacy of vision, care for spaces and observing spaces from the more-than-human perspective, posture and perception, repetition and choices, comfort and entrapment, sharing spaces with others and dissolving boundaries between spaces, creativity and mental space, language and the agency of spaces, memory and habitual pathways, structures and flexibility, physical and psychological spaces, voids and empty spaces, belonging to a place and knowing others through their spaces, designated spaces and liminal spaces, contracts and trust, boredom and perseverance...
OUT : 15 SEPTEMBER 2021 THROUGH FRONTYARD
FLUID INTERACTIONS
How does the body, human or otherwise, move through or around, impact on or react to, destroy or beautify space?
A response to SENT project call out 50-59. Print version is available here.
CARRIAGEWORKS : REVERBERANCE
A meditation on time of change. The video captures transition of Sydney's art precinct 'Carriageworks' from one user utility to the next. The echoes of the past remain embedded in the architecture. ~ synopsis ~
This work is a part of ‘Back to the Future of Public Space’ collection and was exhibited at 2021 Media Architecture Biennale in Amsterdam.
CARPET DANCE
A short video made during the Covid19 lockdowns, captures a body confined by space.
Dancer/Concept: Ira Ferris.
Music: Trevor Brown
SOUND STUDIES
~ listening to space … field recordings and analysis ~
“The perception shifts depending on the mood. It is not that the sounds are shrinking my space, but that my space has already shrank and the sounds are now only a tangible thing to which I attach my frustration of being trapped in here.”
SPATIAL AWARENESS
~ SOUND COLLAGE ~ How aware are we of other objects/people/creatures we inhabit spaces with? Are dancers more spatially aware than others? Featured in this sound collage are: performer Kate Sherman, dancer and dance-filmmaker Diane Busuttil, mathematician and lecturer Nicole Sutton, pagan dances teacher Yorgo Kaporis, installation artist Elia Bosshard, musician Trevor Brown, and dance-filmmaker Kristýna Bartošová.
THINK OF DOORS AS VERTICAL BRIDGES
A poem and sound collage created for ‘Conquering space: coordinates of (un)happiness’ exhibition held in November 2020 in KNAP centre Zagreb (Croatia) as part of the 18th Festival Prvih. Words are layered over 12 different door sounds recorded in a single house.
~ read poem ~
GRIDS AND CHOREOGRAPHIES
As a curator/producer, I collaborated with artist Anja Dimitrijevic on development of a short dance-video that investigates ‘urban choreography’ and the effect that the geometric brutalist architecture has on the individual and communal movement. ~ interview with Anja ~
CONQUERING SPACE
A series of works created as part of interdisciplinary project ‘Conquering Space’ facilitated by Croatian dramaturgs Nikolina Rafaj and Katja Grcić with participation of artists: Hrvoje Korbar, Marko Čavlović, Tonči Kranjčević Bratalić, Anastazija Debelli, Tjaša Kalkan, Josip Kresović Naonar, Romana Brajša, Barbara Radelja, Ljiljana Zagorac, Marta Fiolić, Margareta Sinković, Iva Korenčić, Alja Gudžević, Dora Pocedić, Maja Flajsig. Presented as part of 18. Festival Prvih in Zagreb’s Galerija Dogadanja (Centar KNAP) in November 2020.
