LACE #4: Fractalising Touch hospitality, integration, & the interstitial, Vienna, July 27-31
In one of our conversations, Olive described their work—I think it was their work they were describing—as moving from “object-oriented ontologies” to “relation-oriented ontologies”. For context, I’m always on the lookout for an elegant way to envisage what is otherwise difficult to hold in one’s focus, like “relation-oriented ontologies”. I can barely remember what else was said in the coming minutes, that’s how excited I was about Olive’s turn of phrase.
Olive Bieringa comes to the LACE Symposium for the first time this summer.
Doctoral research question: How does ecosomatic choreography foster embodied ethical relationality? Underlying this question is a larger question: How can body-based practices support a cultural shift away from human-centered systems toward a worldview based on interdependence and relationships with all living things?
This research proceeds through artistic processes that generate practices for reweaving relational fields and for producing new narratives of embodiment through somatic choreography. Its contribution lies in the capacity to resonate across contexts demonstrating how somatic choreography can intervene in ecological, cultural, and ethical concerns
The artworks follow an ontological journey from conception to death to ask: What is the impact of practicing and remembering our own becoming? What is the impact of practicing our dying and decomposing? How should we grieve our own potential extinction?
Made with the support of PART Residency, and ImPulsTanz — Vienna International Dance Festival!
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