wooden Floor, projection Installation still with beanbag
Emphatic Shapeshifting is a series of performance rituals in spaces that are outside and in, embracing the power of the feminine wild, the body, magic, and connection as a social and political practice. This practice is tentacular and messy in conversation with Ecofeminist movements, Extinction studies and multispecies scholarship that propose alternative ways of being and relating to other animals and matter. Thinking and dancing with, I entangle myself in nonlinear stories that exist in the liminal space of potential, somewhere between land and my imagination.
imagining what Donna Haroway calls an "elsewhere that was, still is, and might yet be", I explore somatic gestures that reflect on alternative movement patterns in collaboration with non human matter. Blending my spatial temporality with these morphing bodies I explore the transformative possibilities and power of networked ecosystems, where matter and life goes through continuous biological, ecological and spiritual cycles of death and rebirth.
The video installation, "Shapeshifting Bodies," seeks to mirror and convey an essence of these affective earth-body experiences, using the alchemy of color intensities, materiality, and sound to generate new embodied-meaning productions toward eco-healing.
Grass-shifting, video performance still, 2018
EPHATIC SHAPESHIFTING AND THE IMAGINARY
“Emphatic Shapeshifting and the Imaginary” is an immersive multichannel video installation and video performance comprised of 7 geo-choreographies.
Dimensions variable. Projected and screened site spesifically. Filmed and performed in and around Carlise Massashussets and Vermont USA from 2017-2018
Grass Shifting, Geo Choreography 2017
Hay Shifting, Geo Choreography 2017
Hay Shifting portrait, Geo choreography 2017
Snow Shifting, Hydro-choreography 2018