Blog Articles
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Informing the Institution: Reflections on working with human movement and shared public space
I was recently interviewed by Roddy Shrock, Director of Eyebeam, Art Curator and Strategic Collaborator for his podcast series Informer. The interview was conducted in November 2023 and was recently made public. The first question Roddy asked was, ‘what was your first experience with movement and dance?’. I described my experience of taking part in…
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Resiliency IN_Environments
Our final day of filming in the forests of northern Sweden as part of Moskosel Creative Lab. Working in these special landscapes with filmmaker and my partner Christian Kipp across these days has been a tremendous privilege. I am reminded of the resiliency of the body to adapt to different environments. I am also reminded…
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Empathy IN_Environments & W/Machines
After four days of filming in the north of Sweden, I am looking back at the lens of the camera with the theme of empathy asking, ‘how do I relate to this machine?’. The human’s relationship with technology is ever evolving and some would argue it is problematic while others make the case for its…
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Playing IN_Environments
When I was a child I danced in the backyard of my parent’s house. It was an open space. The space invited activity of movement and play. Play connects back to joy and is something I can find missing in my artistic practice when conceptualisation takes centre stage. Where might a sense of joyful playfulness…
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Courage In_Environments
Filming in a lit forest in Moskosel at 3pm in the afternoon (sun sets at 2.30pm here in the north) on our third day of residency focused on the concept of courage. The first records of the word ‘courage’ come from the 1200s, from the Old French corage, from cuer, meaning “heart”. In re-listening…
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Caring With(IN)_Environments
On day one of our residency we worked with the quality of care and how it might relate to physical spaces of body and landscape and proximities of space between them, of being both near and far. These ideas are also related to Bojana Kunst‘s Open Letter to Artists written during the start of the pandemic…
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IN-Environments (working title)_ An Artist Residency in the North of Sweden
IN-Environments is a new collaborative project by photographer and filmmaker Christian Kipp and dance artist and researcher Sara Wookey. The project considers ways to make visible and felt the ways in which we come into contact with and create relations with spaces and places we reside in – both the natural and built environment –…
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Felt Lines of Connection in a Time of Isolation & Physical Distancing
We are living in a time of disconnect in the physical realm. During this time I am also writing the final draft and conclusion of my Ph.D. thesis that started in 2014. When the world felt very different than it does today. I am at home mainly. I am at home in a way similar…
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On Dancing
Spending two weekends dancing with three of my cohort – all over 40 – I reflect back on my experiences as an “older” dancer who feels that dancing is more readily available than ever. My new project (Re)Make, a dance film, began at an important moment in my career trajectory. I had been speaking to…
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(Re)Make residency on making, unmaking, and remaking
I have just returned back to London from the Lake District where (Re)Make, my new project, was in residency as part of its development. (Re)Make explores making as a way of understanding. I am reminded of the idea that making is knowledge (Ingold, 2013). It is in the doing that understanding starts to emerge.…
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