Paula Montecinos Oliva
- Course
- DAS Choreography
- Class
- 2020
https://soundcloud.com/lamonte-204031754
Paula Montecinos Oliva is a Chilean artist and choreographer working in the field of dance and sound art. Her work integrates electronic media and embodied-embedded practices to research corporal perception and challenge hegemonic-monotonic thinking.
Combining somatic practice, sound experimentation and social enquiry, her artistic practice is focused on cultivating and intimate relation of movement, sound and space, following tidal movements, impulses, cycles, rhythms and critical paused, to redirect forces and re-imagine poetical-political embodiments.
“My current research is activated by listening, nomadism and displacement. My desire is to move in-between formats and territories, in a search for materials, contexts and spaces, revealing their own idiosyncrasies. Listening, for me, is a mode of encounter, of being moved and moving through space; a strategy to disrupt and decenter human intentionality; to reconfigure performer-spectatorship relations and to enact presentness, change, resistance and re-existence”.
She is concerned with scales, responses and consequences of human actions; about space as a living matter; about claiming back agencies that are lost, dismissed, or not acknowledged and about how bodily memory, voices and senses take place and combine in virtual and physical spaces.
Thinking of the value of change: What changes and for what? What are the ethico-political forces that these display? What is needed to fundamentally reconnect human activities with other living and nonliving beings? Which sensibilities are necessary for (can emerge from) transforming everything about the way we live on this planet?