20 words to describe your practice
From there, use the 20 words in a 500 word max text
Meditating
Mediation
Slowness
Happenings
Individual
Collectivity
Partnership
Intimate
Distance
Rest
Community
Sharing
Communication
Embodied
Observing
Place-based
Opening
Ecologies
Systems
Wayfinding
FIRST DRAFT_
My practice acknowledges that we are inherently place-based individuals. We engage in intimate networks of partnership and collectivity through this shared experience of having a body. With this knowledge my main question today as an artist is: What is our relationship, and responsibility, to others as we move through natural and built ecologies? And how does our embodied awareness affect our relationships?
Day-to-day my practice can take the shape of observing, meditating, dancing, and rest. From here an invitation of slowness surfaces. By accepting this invitation, I begin to notice the details, openings, and happenings in the everyday. The use of photography and video documentation is essential and acts as a memory medium to archive these processes.
In the past, my work has centred around systems of wayfinding, acknowledging sites in transition, embodiment as healing, the hidden dimension of proxemics, de-distancing and mapping. This research can result in live performance, video, site-specific mediation, and collective participation/witnessing.
Before I began my quote-unquote artistic career, my first job as a young teen was a dance and movement teacher for a local studio. This ongoing job and relationship to sharing knowledge has informed my understanding, and importance, of communication and accessibility in arts communities.
Along with performance and sharing, I am also developing my curatorial practice. The Toronto Dance Community Love-In is a non-for-profit dance organization known for promoting radical and experimental approaches in the dance field. We offer sessions, residencies, collective learning projects, and performance series on an annual basis. We work from a foundation of respect, generosity and love. Participating in this collective as one of their six Co-Artistic Directors has expanded my interpretation of how producers can work with artists, how to maintain sustainable long-term relationships, and build platforms that foster intersecting communities for collaboration.
FEEDBACK_
- Throw it up in the air
- Push to the tactlessness, share more vulnerable side to art making