Icedge gestures, Installation detail Detail
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.
4 K Video Excerpt, Precarious Hold - Waterflux Iceguts