DROPPING SIGNIFICANCE - AN ECOSOMATIC RESEARCH

We invite you to have an insight to some of the findings of our residency guest Kinga Szemessy (HU) and Signa Schiavo Campo (IT). 
Their 2 weeks long art residency at Telocvičňa / PLAST - Platforma pre súčasný tanec has been focusing on:
- in.fertile grounds (soil, human body, domains, time)
- parasites and para-sites
- haptonomy (touch, friction, affection)
- zoom in and out (deep time of Earth and personal narratives)

We are inspired by an ecosomatics perspective in which we acknowledge the more-than-human agency.
The project relies on an aim to bridge unbridgeable womenhood experiences (mothers, wanna be mothers, never to be mothers etc.) through metaphors and bodily practices. Furthermore, it aims to dissolve the hierarchy between different expertise: be a midwife, a biogeoscientist, an artist, a philosopher, a yoga practitioner, a plumber, you are welcome - and needed.
ps: It is a watch and talk, but sometimes we watch you and only you talk.
The talk is going to be hosted by Eva Priečková and held in English.

Projekt Residance23 podporil z verejných zdrojov Fond na podporu umenia 

 

KINGA SZEMESSY - Austria/Hungary
Kinga was trained as a contemporary dancer, and dance anthropologist, and currently is a PhD candidate at Mozarteum and University of Salzburg. Her main research field is participatory dance performances, with special interest in affects of discomfort and the non-anthropocentric potential of the genre. She is the co-founder of SVUNG Research Group (member of In Situ Platform), and the SZOME Association for Somatic Movement and Education in Hungary, and also a nature guide, occasional rock climber, Swedish & Thai massage therapist, wannabe Watsu therapist. Kinga has contacted the ecosomatics field through Keith Henessy’s workshops on death and dying, the BMC-based ‘Living and Dying on a Damaged Earth’ classes of Olive Bieringa, furthermore Forest Immersion, and Body Weather (Frank van de Ven + Milos Sejn - Bohemiae Rosa). Her former projects ‘No Endpoint - vigil’ and ‘Geodiverse’ with SVUNG were also related to the current explorations.

SIGNA SCHIAVO CAMPO - Italy/Croatia
She holds a BA in Philosophy focused on Taoist thinking and MA in Dance Knowledge Practice and Heritage. Since 2008 Signa has been dedicated to bodily research through movement, awareness, contemporary dance, somatics (BMC and Danse Sensible) and recently ecosomatics. In 2015 she co-founded 'Embodying Reconciliation', an NGO for arts and peacebuilding in Colombia. She is also trained in Hatha Raja Yoga, Thai Massage, Mindfulness, Feminine Sexuality Embodiment and is enrolled in an Erasmus Plus ongoing project about ecosomatic rituals, ecopsychology and soul work. 
Signa is also a poem writer currently exploring the field of erotic poetry.

SALLY O’NEILL - Sweden
Sally O'Neill is a Malmö based dance and performance dramaturg with a master’s degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Before becoming a dramaturg, she was a dancer and choreographer in contemporary dance. She facilitates artists to create and discover new structures and languages. She has previously worked for, among others, Kroppsklubben, Daniel Jeremiah Persson, Tuva Hildebrand and Waileth & Bardon in Malmö, Leah Landau in Stockholm, and Gray Box Projects in Hungary and France.