Embody

 

Embody is a collaborative project that exists in many forms, including a multi media installation and live cinema performance. At PlatteForum, I had the opportunity to work with a group of girls that had no arts education in their school. They came to PlatteForum for workshops and joined me in the process interviewing, filming and dancing with various dancers. Our final work was presented as an immersive installation and performance with videos, animations, flipbooks and websites. The videos were projected onto large scale thead drawings and quilts depicting the dancers. In the interviews every dancer expressed "losing themselves" in dance. The thread drawings are neat and composed on one side while the other side is loose and less self conscious to reflect this experience. I wrote extensively about this work, including an essay that is published in a book entitled Popularizing Qualitative Research. For more details on this work, including a series of videos, please visit the following links:

 

Videos                        PlatteForum Residency and Exhibit                        The Workshops                         Workshop Slideshow                     Qualitative Research Text