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It's Good To Talk With You, Mother
Research on birth, slowness, and textile crafting, November 2023 - January 2024
As the 6th Belgian artist to benefit from LE18 MARRAKECH's partnership with the Flemish government, I researched the use of embroidery and meditation to initiate intimate conversations. My project evolved into collaborative crafting and discussions with the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj, as well as involving a larger group of collaborators for embroidery, translation and mediation.
The open studio presented at LE18 from February to April 2024 shared the process of these conversations in visual and audio forms.
Slow Experiments
Slow research exercises with Rita Hoofwijk, 2022-2023
Slow Experiments is a series of exercises through which I attempt answering the question: “what can help us slowing down?”
The answers take the form of short audio tracks that take us on an embodied journey to slow land.
They are exercises for myself on how to take visitors along in embodied experiences of slowness. And they are exercises in slowing down for whoever will try them out.
Aesthetic Boredom: Investigating the Experience of Slow Dance in a Society of Haste
Master’s Thesis, Contemporary Theatre Dance and Dramaturgy, Utrecht University, March 2020
Drawing on publications by Hartmut Rosa, Byung-Chul Han, Jonathan Crary, André Lepecki, Bojana Cvejic, Bojana Kunst, Ana Vujanović, Gernot Böhme, and Alva Noë, I explore how a rencent tendency in contemporary dance, coined ‘slow dance’ by Hana Lee Erdman and Louise Dahl, answers to a societal context of haste. I develop the concepts of ‘molecular thingness’ and ‘atmosphere’ to approach slowness beyond easily identifiable compositional choices; and ‘deep perception’, ‘aesthetic boredom’ and ‘atmospheres of resonance’ to indicate a distinctive way in which slow performances organize collective spaces of spectatorship, namely spaces that, by calling attention to a realm that ontologically precedes all kind of individuation, bypass individualistic as well as anthropocentric modes of engaging.
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