artistic reflection
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Florinda Camilleri
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For this artistic research project, I draw from feminist, new materialist, posthumanist perspectives to extend my contemporary dance practice out of the studio, and into public space. It is motivated by my urgent will to find new, more response-able ways of practising and performing as a (post)human in the Anthropocene. This research unfolds predominantly from and through the work of feminist, materialist, posthumanist philosophers Karen Barad and Rosi Braidotti, as well as through the proposition of the “somatic camera” by dance artist and academic Heike Salzer.
In the first months of research, I investigated human relations with the material components of peri-urban sites, as solo experiments and also in collaboration with a visual artist. In the second phase, the camera was brought in, and hence also a videographer as collaborator. We worked with-in a political site in Valletta (MT). We applied this knowledge to the final phase, with 8 different performers in 7 different sites, to develop a series of screendance performances in anthropocentric landscapes entitled The WanderMust Series. All throughout, I have attempted to co-create with the human and more-than-human, the living and non-living agents of these public spaces.
Final Assessment Presentation
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Florinda Camilleri
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A presentation of artistic research for the final assessment of the Master Performing Public Space program.