HIGH SHINE — THE BODY IS BOTH THE SELF AND THE ENTIRE EARTH
with Catalina Insignares, Tamara Antonijević, and Daisy Hildyard
Friday October 4, 6pm
Please join us for this festive booklaunch where the publication HIGH SHINE – a collaborative writing project between Catalina and Tamara tracing landscapes of the physical and ecological body – will come into dialogue with Daisy’s work on life beyond words, the slow emergencies of climate change, and the interconnectedness of all living things.
Catalina Insignares is a Colombian choreographer based in Brussels. She’s interested in how to use the sensorial and fictional means of the body and of touch to develop ways to communicate with the invisible. She always works through collaboration, her main partners in art are Myriam Lefkowitz and Carolina Mendonça.
Tamara Antonijević writes and works as a dramaturg and artistic collaborator in performance, theatre and dance pieces. The role of text in collaborative processes is focal in her interest and research. Currently she’s a Phd candidate at the Applied Arts University Vienna and works at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuernberg in Live Art Forms performative practices MA program.
Daisy Hildyard is author of two novels – Emergency (2022) and Hunters in the Snow (2014) – and one work of nonfiction, The Second Body (2017), which thinks about how climate change is affecting human experience. Recent texts and events online at daisyhildyard.co.uk
Care Ecologies in this ARIAS’ research group artists and scholars concerned with matters of care examine care from a variety of disciplinary positions. Employing multiple perspectives, approaches and methodologies, they reflect both on how care is enacted in their individual research work and art practices, and how it shows up in their collective exchanges, collaborations and entanglements.
This event is initiated and curated by ro heinrich and Nienke Scholts (ARIAS), organised in collaboration with ARIAS’ Care Ecologies research group and Emilie Gallier (Nieuwe Dansbibliotheek, Lectorate Academy of Theatre and Dance).
