Researcher Fine Art
01.01.08 – 31.12.09
My work looks at the organization of movement and action. Instead of expressive gestures, I’m interested in what shapes, holds and frames movement, the key frames, abstract narratives, stuck or fixed positions that one moves through and the rhythms that form and interrupt them. I study movement across various times, spaces and contexts in particular theatrical representations, which I see as a way to construct or retrace contemporary or historical subjectivities (formed in a specific context or event). Im interested in how subjectivity might be formed through movement and movement formed through subjectivity.
These studies take the form of film, video, performance and sculpture and could be further highlighted through another ongoing work, a reworking of the pamphlet ‘Composition de rhétorique de M. don Arlequin’, published in 1601 by the early Harlequin Tristano Martinelli. The figure of Harlequin reflects an inability to think of more than one thing at a time. Constantly forgetting, he is unable to consider the possible consequences of an immediate action.
Harlequin’s traits offer a potential for the re-patterning of the body and its causal effect on an overall narrative. In my reworking of this pamphlet, objects, body relations, attributes, attentions, presences from the original pages of the pamphlet, separated on individual sheets, combine in elements and layers to form different formations. The material can only contain so many layers before the image becomes opaque. The sheets becomes a surface on which to explore shifts, reversals, projections, extractions, movements and sensations - formed in situ - all those elements between the ‘subject’ and this object.
London, GB.
MA Fine Art. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, GB.
Postgraduate studies. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US.
BA Fine Art. Wimbledon College of Art, London, GB.
Experimental video workshops. The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Dorset, GB.
Visiting tutor BA Fine Art. The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Dorset, GB.
Performer/collaborator for Marisa Zanotti/Anatomy for the production Love songs in a lonely desert full of crying men and howling women.
Performer/collaborator for Bock and Vincenzi for the productions Invisible dances; Invisible dances in front of people watching; L’Altrove (The elsewhere); Here, as if they hadn’t been, as if they are not, an epilogue, the invisible dances; The infinite pleasures of the great unknown.
Artists’ programme. Chisenhale Dance Space, London, GB.
AHRC Postgraduate award.
The eye cannot see itself. Thoughts on a trip to Japan to see Noh theatre. (8 September). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
(Untitled). (3 June). In: The dual part II. On mathematics, theatre and love as conditions of philosophy: In order to have one, one needs two (or maybe four). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
The harlequin as dyspraxic figure. In: Opening week 2008. (7 – 11 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
(Untitled). (16 July). London, GB: Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Labelling, determinism, escaping. (22 February). Oxford, GB: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Labelling, determinism, escaping. (24 January). London, GB: Serpentine Gallery.
(Untitled). (10 March). Dorset, GB: The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
The transversal performer. (18 September). In: Transversalities. Reading, GB: University of Reading.
Professional practice lecture. (15 February). London, GB: Wimbledon College of Art.
(Untitled). Workshop with students of Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht (ABKM). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
(Untitled). (5 November). Presentation and workshop. Brighton, GB: University of Brighton.
The harlequin as dyspraxic figure. (22 October). London, GB: Laban.
What is performance? (16 October). Dorset, GB: The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Decisions, scenarios, narratives. (3 May). London, GB: Laban.
Movement as mask, cloth as emotion. (4 – 10 November). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
The morality of movement. (21 January – 26 February). London, GB: Whitechapel Project Space.
(Untitled). In: Opening week 2008. (7 – 11 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Romantic anti-humanism. (23 June – 1 July). London, GB: Five Years.
Voiceover. London, GB: Serpentine Gallery.
A place for everything, everything in its place. (11 – 12 March). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
(Untitled). London, GB: Chisenhale Dance Space.
The lesson (the morality of movement). London, GB: Whitechapel Project Space.
The harlequin sits with the 7 sins and a character with no character. (4 July). In: Petit pois. London, GB: Tate Modern.
Description of a dance. (1 July). In: Not yet night. Video screening, performance. With Esther Planas. London, GB: Studio Voltaire.
Olivier vs. Bogarde. In: MA Fine Art symposium. London, GB: Victoria Miro Gallery.
Gavin Beschen: The natural/the shapeshifter. London, GB: 31 Earls Court Square.
(Untitled). HDV, 36 min.
The morality of movement. Two-channel video, projection 26 min, monitor 18 min.
Description of a dance. With Esther Planas. Single channel video, 15 min.
OVB. 3 min. video loop, 20 min. sound loop.
7 Sins and a contemporary dance. Single channel video, colour, sound, 20 min.