In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of a dancer are transformed into a series of lines drawn live by the Australian visual artist Rochelle Haley. ‘Gesture & Trace’ investigates drawing as an embodied and performance based activity. At the heart of this project is the reciprocity between the body, motion and line.
Gesture & Trace : Rochelle Haley
In collaboration with Inês Tarouca, Joana Ratão, Patrícia Cabral and Priscilla Carbone
When: 16 – 26 June 2010
Where: Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon
Program: Open Residency: 16 – 19 June; 23 – 25 June 2010 (Wed – Sat 19h to 23h)
Performance / Project Presentation/ Opening: 26th June 2010 (21h)
Speakers: Nuno Oliveira, Fabrice Ziegler, Margarida Chambel and Carlos Farinha
(Coordinators of the project ‘Epipiderme – Encounters around performance’)
Project description
Drawing with both hands simultaneously, the artist tracks the movement of two points on the dancer’s body. The drawing is filmed from above and is projected onto a wall via a live feed. Other dancers then use the drawn lines as visual cues to interpret their own movement. (See previous Strings Post)
The methodology, maintaining a direct material interaction with the drawn line, explores relationships between the visual graphic mark and dance-based motion. The experimental pairing of dance and drawing provides space to explore complex and figurative interactions between the visual and performing arts.
Rochelle Haley is a Sydney based artist working with experimental drawing, installation and performance. She completed a PhD at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Haley has held several solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in group shows in Australia, China, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey. Haley’s work is included in several public collections including the NSW Attorney Generals Department. Recently Haley has been artist in residence at Bundanon, NSW; Creative Paper, Tas; Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia; Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and Performing Arts Forum, St Erme, France. During 2009 Haley initiated a drawing-based performance collaboration with dancers from ASWARA performed in Kuala Lumpur Jan 2010. An ongoing investigation of this method with Swiss choreographer Marion Ruchti began in Paris in April 2010. For more about Rochelle visit here website: www.rochellehaley.com
For more information about this event visit the Drawing Spaces Website or Download this PDF: Pess.Gesture & Trace.Rochelle Haley.June2010
Nuno Oliveira, Fabrice Ziegler, Margarida Chambel and Carlos Farinha Epipiderme – Encounters around performance http://epipiderme.blogspot.com/
Paulo Luís Almeida, Faculty of Fine Arts, Porto University http://pauloluisalmeida.weebly.com/
Sofia Silva, PAC – Artistic Choreographic Projects http://projectoartisticos.wordpress.com/
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