Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Spring 2023 welcomes artist SERAFINE1369.
SERAFINE1369 is an artist, dancer and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. Their methodology is intuitive and many-headed, considering the interrelatedness of myriad systems.
The forms and poetics that emerge through the synthesis of their research - into therapeutic somatic bodywork techniques and movement efficiency; experiential and visionary anatomy; dancing and strategies for expansive non-hierarchical pedagogical practice; divination and other oracular and associative technologies; conditions and alternative work models; theatrical and cinematic devices - organically extend into facilitation, text, video, installation, sound, healing practices, curation and performance. Their work is choreographic and uses (de)composition as a state of cycling and crumbling towards the stark expressive utterances of the minutiae of sensing. Underpinned by an interest in the invisible systems and structures that choreograph bodies in life.
SERAFINE1369 is busy with propositions and practices - of dancing, spatial arrangement, sonics and modes of receiving - that counter the tendency towards bodily compression, inflammation and alienation, invited by life in the hostile architectures of the metropolis. The non-linear passage of time, cycles and systems of counting have a recurrent thematic presence in their work, themes of being haunted and being trapped. Their body and movement studies focus on electricity and water - nervous systems and their transpersonal functioning. This approach acknowledges the cosmic oneness of all things as manifested through the ecologies of relation and the fact that everything is made of the same stuff, whilst being intensely curious about the magic and mysteries of life processes of distinction, variation, cycles, decomposition; movement as it transforms and sustains.
Image: SERAFINE1369, Heavy handed, we crush the moment, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Artists Website: https://www.basictension.com/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Mar 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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