Hydro-choreography/ video installation
exhibited at
Tenthaus, Frozen Horizon, 2022
the National Museum of Science and Technology, Mattering Oil 2021.
Malmo Kunstforening, Sensate Bodys & release of Delta an
Ocean Call, 2021
Multichannel hydro-choreographic Artistic intervention, Mattering Oil at Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in the permanent oil exhibition reimagining oil ontologies interconnected with interspecies and human health. Created within the residency Climata, Capturing change at a time of Ecological crisis at Praksis Oslo
Building on feminist scholarship and my own somatic research I'm working with ice as a speculative antibody to oil in the oil fairytale exhibition. To feel and animate fluid ontologies, I follow the rhythms of sea ice in the Oslo Fjord, a fjord undergoing dramatic change impacted by a warming atmosphere. Through hydro-choreographies I mourn current extractive practices and social imaginaries that make the extraction of oil possible – seeking to move through and beyond the extractive zone, multi-sensorial narrating embodied relationships to environmental change. This approach is Inspired by theories within posthuman and environmental dance and Macarena Gómez-Barris book “Beyond the Extractive Zone '' – Social Ecologies and Decolonial perspectives.
Through the artistic research project WATERFLUX ICEGUT(s) I seek to animate and queer the dynamisms of ice as shifting sea-agent. The project is an embodied response to increasing ocean temperatures and sea ice melting in the Barents Sea and the arctic. The same areas also hold large pockets of oil at the bottom of the sea, that when extracted contribute to ice melting through the warming of the atmosphere. Ice and oil are in this way entangled. Through scale, movement, and multiple projection surfaces, Water membranes in flux and human bodies precariously entwine as the solitary figure navigates changing seascapes and submerged ecologies past and present, embodying precarious interspecies corporeal water-futures.
The work was filmed with and in the Oslo Fjord winter of 2020- 2021 dancing with Ice in flux.
Waterflux Iceguts, performance still
Waterflux Iceguts installed in the exhibition Frozen Horizon curated by Sharzad Malekian at Tenthaus
Precarious Hold, installation at the National Museum of Science and Technology
Waterflux Iceguts, video
Icedge gestures, Installed at the National Museum of Science and Technology
Icedge gestures
icedge gestures is one of 4 video performances/ hydro choreographies in the Waterflux Icegut(s) series. 2020-2021 made in dialogue with the oil exhibition at the National Museum of Science and Technology and emerging research on entangled ocean ontologies. through hydrochoreography the figure traces Ice edges local and metaphorically afar musing on inter(relationships) between body of water.
The article The ice-edge is lost, nature moved it by Berit Kristoffersen and Philip Steinberg is an inspiration for this eco-somatic gesture. the paper explores”how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. The arcticle focuses in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically and legally – over the past decades. This culminated with two maps produced in 2015, a Norwegian map that moved the Arctic sea-ice edge 70 km northward and a Canadian map that moved it 200 km southward. Using the maps and their genealogies to explore how designations of sea ice are entangled with political objectives (oil drilling in Norway, sovereignty claims in Canada), they describe how the maps communicate a general tendency of states to assign fixed categories to portions of the earth's surface and define distinct lines between them. The authors propose that the production of static ontologies through cartographic representations becomes particularly problematic in an icy environment of extraordinary temporal and spatial dynamism, where complex ocean–atmospheric processes and their biogeographic impacts are reduced to lines on a map”
-Text is the abstract of Berit Kristofferens and Philip Steinberg paper The Iceedge is lost, nature moved it.
Icedge gestures, Installation detail Detail
Video performance/ hydro choreography, HD video 2021