12 Feb Julia de Rosenwerth
August 2019
Julia uses performance, video and sound as an embodied thinking place to pose certain questions: “Where are the boundaries of a body – a being? What are its perceived limits? In what ways do we affect one another? How are we changing?
The way she is working with these concepts includes dispersing, obscuring, diffusing and layering her human signifiers (the voice, the body and its image).
For the August open studios Julia activates a space that opposes speed and stillness, presence and image, challenging the viewer’s understanding of movement, body and its representation.
September 2019
For this performance, Julia has been working with the idea of ‘the body as a gate’.
Julia also questions other boundaries such as that of artistic disciplines in general and those of dance in particular.
With dance training in different styles ranging from African contemporary dance to flamenco, ballet and real-time composition, in these two months of residence she has responded to a need to dilute these borders as a way to access something deeper/beyond/underneath ‘aesthetic’.
She sees all her training, influences and experiences in general as a body of knowledge that she can draw on, according to the expressive needs of each composition and welcomes the space this provides for an interplay between internal and external response.
Many thanks to the musical connection, collaboration and creation with Josman P#.
