“Environments” a multi media installation using film, field recordings and live performance. On the 3rd and 4th of March 2010 it was performed at The Space, Dundee College. I see my work as documentation to the landscape and our human engagement with it, I’m fascinated by the relationship between audience and performer and the audiences role in engagement within a confined space. During this project I collaborated visual artist Louise Kerr, who edited the films, as well as working with dance Dagmara Jerkzak. The installation contains, 1 Dancer, 8 films and 1 soundscape, in relation to the explorations of 2 sites, one being Seaton Cliffs Arbroath, and the other being the basement of The Space, Dundee College. The Dance installation was performed at the Space Dundee, and the multiple films were shot on Seaton Cliffs, as were all field recordings
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
- Katharin Cooper
- I am movement artist who over the past five years being working in both London and Scotland, at present I am finishing off my studies completing my BA in Dance at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, Dundee, form this I will be going on to study Dance Movement Psychotherapy this September 2010. As a dance artist I am interested in cultivating poetic movement through installation, collaboration and explorations. From my choreography, teaching practice and performance work I look to explore sensitivity and awareness of external and internal landscapes and embodiment of our surrounding environments through human experience.I am interested in uncoventual performance settings. My artistic practice also explores sound ecology and field recordings, which has became a key aspect to my chorographic process along side live performance and film. As a choreographer I am inspired by mix discipline arts, collaboration and diverse performance. I am interested in exploring the multiplicity of the changing selves in an ever-changing environment and how this embodied engagement with landscape and the external world can support therapeutic artistic development.
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