Freyberg Beach

Freyberg beach

Wellington, New Zealand

March 1998

Another hot evening. Lots of people at an inner city beach gathered unsuspectingly as we began our Tuning score on the beach.

Gradually expanding out to the perimeters of the beach and into the water. Ten performers flocking on the floating raft, six way back on the beach. Returning to land shaking off salty wetness to find stillness and resolution. The circle keeps growing.

Performers: Andy Irving, Bronwyn Haywood, Catrina Friedlander, Chris Jackson, Claire O’Leary, Eileen Watson, John Jacobsen, Karen Daly, Katie Regalsford, Mark Minnard, Olive Bieringa, Pietr Roncevich, Roger Livingston, Kilda Northcott, Sumara Fraser, Zoe Miller

The BodyCartography Project began in 1997 and is directed by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. Our ventures include dance performances, installation works, film/video projects and educational workshops. We investigate and create with the bodies' relationship to the physical, architectural, climatic, technological and social landscapes that we inhabit in urban/wilderness and private/public contexts. We engage and provoke audiences in diverse contexts through collaborative processes with independent artists, and national and international companies and communities. We have created works for over one hundred and thirty performance events in the USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Europe and Russia.

MEANDER International Platform for Sustainable Art and Life Practices is pleased to offer a series of presentations by a cohort of international collectively-focused, multidisciplinary artists, activists and thinkers whose work in Brazil, Chile, Norway, Denmark, Australia and the United States explore why the commons is an important framework for understanding ecological emergency. Olive Bieringa will lead a session as part of the live event which will stream online Saturday December 4 beginning at 4PM (Oslo), 12PM (Santos), 10AM (New York) on www.meanderinternational.org.

“TØR – Experiential Humanities” Embodied Knowing workshop November 18

“TØR – Experiential Humanities,” is a research group based at the Institute of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo.

Welcome to the TØR seminar:
“Embodied Knowing” A Session on Sensory Experiences as Sources of Knowledge with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad

13.00-15.00, Nov 18, 2021

Touch and movement form the fluid ground for all our sensory experiences, and these affect the very way we think and understand the world. We will practice approaches we can experiment with and apply to our research. How can our sensory experiences, specifically movement and touch, function as sources of knowledge in their own right, sources that inform our conceptual thinking?

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Freyberg Beach

Freyberg Beach

MEANDER presents: Ecological Thinking and Artistic Practice

Norsk Teknisk Museum residency 2020-2022

“TØR – Experiential Humanities” Embodied Knowing workshop November 18