I have spent the last 3 years working with several groups of dancers, choreographers and actors on a research project to archive the gestures, movements and rhythms of worship to understand their impact on our everyday lives. I think of myself as an activist archivist. I am designing an archive to polemically rearrange the standard perception of the world outside. This project has provided the basis for several performances and exhibitions here and in Asia.
As a movement artist, I wanted to know how our movements are limited by centuries of worship. Building an archive was a place for me start. The reenactments, transformations, analysis and commentary that emanated from this exercise were what motivated it.
View the full video here: https://vimeo.com/324808621
As a movement artist, I wanted to know how our movements are limited by centuries of worship. Building an archive was a place for me start. The reenactments, transformations, analysis and commentary that emanated from this exercise were what motivated it.
View the full video here: https://vimeo.com/324808621
Through this portraits, I wanted to give 50 participants a glimpse, through dance, into the daily experiences of the Sikh man that has suffered widespread racial abuse for sporting external signifiers like beards and turbans. As a movement artist, learning a dance dissolves boundaries and develops connections, not in any abstract way but because movement is universal.
These abstract portraits are part of my research into worship through a vocabulary of movements, from the perspective of the worshipers relationship with a bodily extension ( a prosthesis, in this case a turban) and consequently his god, prioritising his gestures and their historical weight in worship.
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