HIGH SHINE - the body is both the self and the entire Earth
with Catalina Insignares, Tamara Antonijević, and Daisy Hildyard
Friday October 4th
Practice Sharing: 9.30 - 13.00h, DAS Graduate School - Please sign up here!
Book Launch: 18.00 - 20.00h, San Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30, Amsterdam
Confronted with the logic in which everything was happening around her,
it was easy to stay still and do nothing.
Be warmly invited to a special two-part event of the ARIAS’ Care Ecologies group, where author Daisy Hildyard, choreographer Catalina Insignares and dramaturg Tamara Antonijević will be conversing with each other, the more-than human, and the dead — tracing by hand, by pen, by imagination the landscapes of the physical and ecological body.
HIGH SHINE is a collaborative writing project that started during the pandemic, when Catalina and Tamara were an ocean away from each other. They developed a method for working together, based on Tamara's writing — exploring the role of text in collaboration — and Catalina’s psychic and sensorial body practice — that seeks to communicate with the invisible.
The writing of Daisy Hildyard is in a language that draws attention to presences beyond the shortfall of words; life lived through the slow emergencies and violences of climate change, weaving into one relational body - the family of foxes, the river, the man, the plastic cup, the tree, the whale - the self and the Earth.
On Friday October 4th, Catalina and Tamara will bring HIGH SHINE in dialogue with the writing and thinking of Daisy, together sharing a space of embodied practice, collective reading and study.
You are very much welcome to all or some part of this program:
In the morning at DAS Graduate School, during a physical and sensory practice sharing session - expect some laying down and dozing off in different states of alertness that will allow for different body-poetics to emerge, reading and being read to.
In the early evening at San Serriffe, during a book-launch festivity around the publication HIGH SHINE, continuing the dialogue with Daisy Hildyard’s works, among which The Second Body and Emergency.
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), and generously hosted by the DAS Graduate School and San Serriffe (Pieter Verbeke). HIGH SHINE is published by DE NIEUWE DANSBIBLIOTHEEK and DAS Publishing, and financed by the Quality Funds, Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts.
