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ItemVirtual Crossings Melbourne - Geneva -Auckland(TrakLAB, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, University of Melbourne & Cie Gilles Jobin, 2021)How do we build choreographic systems for dancing with those we cannot touch? In a world in which the medium of a mask and the interface of a screen are omnipresent, touching at a distance becomes a choreographic problem. Developing tools to navigate a touchless habitat engages actions of crossing thresholds - between physical and virtual, distant and near – from the perspective of cellular bodies hardwired for touch. Virtual Crossings is a network of artists engaged in cultivating distant touch through remote collaboration. Initiated by Cie Gille Jobin Geneva, this inter-disciplinary network engaged partners in Melbourne, Geneva and Auckland for simultaneous remote performance and research through a virtual architecture embodied through motion capture technology. Virtual Crossings mobilises soma-technic states as new spaces for dance to travel safely and with minimal impact.
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ItemLungSong(Ecowest Festival, 2019)LungSong is a 60 minute performance that calls attention to life at all scales. A performance cosmology and a call to action, this performance generates affinities between scientific research on climate change and artistic innovation. In contemplating an apocalypse of the skies, from one of the places in the world with the cleanest air, LungSong, became a meeting place for artists and scientists to engage in research that resisted the ‘forgetting of air’ (Irigaray 1999). See https://vimeo.com/335979067
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ItemLiving Archive of Breath(Festival of Colour, Wanaka, 2019)Can the arts inspire climate action? Living Archive of Breath brings attention and feeling to the scientific labor of climate change research through an activation of relations between breath, air and atmosphere. Catalysed by a residency at the Lauder Atmospheric Research Station (NIWA) and meetings with scientists and technicians who are involved in ‘ground truth’ readings and data collection of the changes taking place in our atmosphere due to global warming, Living Archive of Breath emerged as an artists’ testimony and measure of the temper(ature) of our times. We are all breathing the same air, through inter-arts and inter-cultural collaboration we invited witnessing air, atmospheres, breaths and cosmologies in relation. Choreographer Carol Brown, sound artist Russell Scoones, performer/researcher Tia Reihana and dancer Neža Jamnikar took audience on a journey to the edge of Lake Wanaka. En route audience listened to stories and sounds emerging from the Company’s collaboration with atmospheric research scientists at NIWA’s Lauder Station.