I am a performer and maker working in the intersection of dance, live art/performance art, theatre, and film. For me, the process of creating and presenting is an opportunity to absorb, exchange, collaborate, invent, reimagine, and transform memories and ideas into reality. It has enabled me to inhabit the territory that is constantly being pushed and pulled to incorporate personal history, environmental, social, and political issues, as well as genres and aesthetics, philosophical thinkings, and new dance forms.
As a performance artist, in this time of global crises, the ephemerality and impermanence of live performances have provided unexpected pleasure and a sense of wonder, bringing hope and joy to daily life. The disciplines required for the art form sharpen the mind to focus, surrender and remember. The performative presence establishes a vantage point from which one views reality with fresh perspectives in various parts of the body. Questions such as: ‘how could I sustain the heightened states of being?; who and what moves me?; when is what I desire not relevant?’ are intertwined with the worldwide political upheavals, the personal grief, the environmental disasters, the wars and genocides in various parts of the globe. Faced with these grand-scale issues, performance practices have equipped me with the unwavering agency and resilience to uphold our innate capacity for truth and beauty. I have found inspiration in movement-based work as a host, maker, and performer, and I am keen to create performances that give voice to those who are often unheard and unappreciated.
As a performance artist, in this time of global crises, the ephemerality and impermanence of live performances have provided unexpected pleasure and a sense of wonder, bringing hope and joy to daily life. The disciplines required for the art form sharpen the mind to focus, surrender and remember. The performative presence establishes a vantage point from which one views reality with fresh perspectives in various parts of the body. Questions such as: ‘how could I sustain the heightened states of being?; who and what moves me?; when is what I desire not relevant?’ are intertwined with the worldwide political upheavals, the personal grief, the environmental disasters, the wars and genocides in various parts of the globe. Faced with these grand-scale issues, performance practices have equipped me with the unwavering agency and resilience to uphold our innate capacity for truth and beauty. I have found inspiration in movement-based work as a host, maker, and performer, and I am keen to create performances that give voice to those who are often unheard and unappreciated.
Interview
Still image from First Days
Upcoming
Workshop: How memories become form - sensations as source material (as part of Tainan Arts Festival 29/11/2025)
ORACLE LEAVES, Portraits of Daphne, Colette Sadler, 2026 Berlin colettesadler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tour_Pack_Oracle_Leaves_Colette_Sadler.pdf We Are Not Beautiful, in collaboration with Womanewer Dance Company UK premiere Fall 2026 2025
First Days (Post-production) kimallamand.com/first-days R&D with Womamewer Dance Company on new project, We Are Not Beautiful Vexations performance with Igor Levit (Piano) and Sara Maurizi, directed by Marina Abramović Neurolive https://neurolive.info/Upcoming Final Year Celebration Events: Symposium, workshops, and the performance of "The Neurocognition of Liveness - A Lecture Performance, " performed by Guido Orgs. (Created by Guido Orgs in collaboration with Jia-Yu Corti and Matthias Sperling) 2024
Co-leader of performance programme for Marina Abramović Kunsthaus, Zurich (29/09 - 26/10) Performances First Days - as performer/actor, full-length feature film, co-directed by Kim Allamand and Michael Karrer (Sabotage Kollektiv, Zurich), (filming period 24/08 - 28/09) The House with the Ocean View, by Marina Abramović, as part of Marina Abramović, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as part of Holland Festival (05/06 - 17/06) Archée - by Mylène Benoit, Lille, France (16 - 19/04) 2023 Marina Abramović at Royal Academy of Arts, London (September Satelliser: a dance for the gallery - J Neve Harrington, Arnolfini, Bristol (29-30/07) Neurolive - solo, Performing and Not Performing, Performed by Jia-Yu Corti, https://neurolive.info/Workshop-3 The tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Basel Art Fair - Parcours Teaching: Improvisation, performance workshops in Taiwan - Chinese Cultural University, Dance department, 21, 23 Mar.; National Taiwan University, Dance department, 31 Mar. ARCHEE, Mylène Benoit, March 9 - Friday, March 10, 2023, LUX, national stage / Valencia March 14, 2023 Quinconces-L'Espal, National Scene / Le Mans Thursday, May 4, 2023, House of Culture / Amiens ORACLE LEAVES, Portraits of Daphne, Colette Sadler, Tramway, Glasgo,w Friday, February 24 2023 2022 -
NeuroLive workshop - On the invitation by NeuroLive commissioned artist Jo Fong and artistic co-investigator Matthias Sperling to lead and participate in the annual workshop week, part of the Artistic Stream of the 5-year Neurolive research project, Siobhan Davies Studio, London (6-10/06) Performance - Index of Shapes - Eduardo Navarro, Wellcome Collection, London (29-30 July) Performance - Tissues, Pan Daijing - Berlin, Krakow (1-15/09) Workshop - The Shape of Grief - as part of Jo Fong’s Toynbee Studio takeover (9, 18 Feb.) Performance- Archée, Mylène Benoit - CCN of Roubaix, FR (21-24/03 residency); Bordeaux Manufacture CDCN (4-8/04, tour); Kosovo ( 20-24/06, cancelled) |
2021
Becoming Fungi Becoming Forest - sirenscrossing, Carolyn Deby - Coventry Biennial 2021, UK(Nov-Dec. 2021)
The tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins - winner of ANTI Art Festival International Prize, Kuopio, Finland (10-15/09); as part of Disappearing Berlin 2021 at Supermarket Jannowitzbrücke (30/10)
Scorpion, Co-created with Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo and performed with Yumino Seki - National Gallery, London, UK (7-9 Oct.)
The Swarm, Tino Sehgal - Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (5/07 - 15/08)
2020
Dream Dangerous, in collaboration with Zadie Xa, Benito Mayor Vallejo, Frieze Live 2020, 9 Oct. (live), from 11 Oct. (online)
https://www.frieze.com/video/watch-now-zadie-xa-benito-mayor-vallejo-dream-dangerous
Waverley Abbey Performance & Film, Hollie Miller & Sam Williams, filmed on 28-30 Sep.
Or what is, Nicole Bachmann - E-werk, Freiburg, 17-20 Sep., 2020; Bündner Kunstmuseum, CH 7-8 Nov.; Mimosa House, London 16-17 Nov.; Diaphanes Space, Berlin 22 Nov. 2019
Obscene Open Studios, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Zurich, 22-27 Jun., 7-12 Sep.
SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL, Trajal Harrell - Schauspielhaus Zurich, 10-18 Sep.; Schauspielhaus Bochum, 5-11 Oct. (cancelled)
Escape Act, Alexandra Bachzetsis - Pact Zollverein, Essen 20 Oct. 2018; Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich 17-20 Jan. 2019, les Spectacles Vivants, Centre PompidouParis 14-16 Feb.; Dampfzentrale, Bern CH 24 Feb.; Kaserne Basel, Basel 01-02 Mar.; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 07-08 Mar., HAU hebbel am Ufer, Berlin 21-23 Mar.; Pioneer Works, New York 10-12 Apr.; Kaaitheater, Brussels 7-8 Mar. 2020
Dead Time Blue, Pan Daijing - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 30-31 Jan
Phase shifting index, Jeremy Shaw (film) - worldwide touring
Grandmother Mago, Zadie Xa - AGO Toronto 15-16 Jan. 2020; Tramway Glasgow 25-26 Oct. 2019; Venice Biennale 2019 Pre-opening programme 6-12 May, Art Night Walthamstow 22-23 Jun.
2019
The tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins - GetxoArte, Bilbao 14 Dec.; Converso, Milan 23 May; Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 24 May
Tissues/The absent hour, Pan Daijing - The Tanks, Tate Modern 2-6 Oct.
Urbanflows immersed in worlds, Sirenscrossing/Carolyn Deby - Coventry 19 Aug.-25 Sep.
Snakes, Jia-Yu Corti & Owen Ridley-DeMonick - Soho Theatre 21 Jan., Tanzhaus, Zurich (residency)22-28 Feb., Chisenhale Dance Space 17 May
SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL, Trajal Harrell - Schauspielhaus Bochum, 18 Mar.-6 Apr.
Becoming Fungi Becoming Forest - sirenscrossing, Carolyn Deby - Coventry Biennial 2021, UK(Nov-Dec. 2021)
The tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins - winner of ANTI Art Festival International Prize, Kuopio, Finland (10-15/09); as part of Disappearing Berlin 2021 at Supermarket Jannowitzbrücke (30/10)
Scorpion, Co-created with Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo and performed with Yumino Seki - National Gallery, London, UK (7-9 Oct.)
The Swarm, Tino Sehgal - Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (5/07 - 15/08)
2020
Dream Dangerous, in collaboration with Zadie Xa, Benito Mayor Vallejo, Frieze Live 2020, 9 Oct. (live), from 11 Oct. (online)
https://www.frieze.com/video/watch-now-zadie-xa-benito-mayor-vallejo-dream-dangerous
Waverley Abbey Performance & Film, Hollie Miller & Sam Williams, filmed on 28-30 Sep.
Or what is, Nicole Bachmann - E-werk, Freiburg, 17-20 Sep., 2020; Bündner Kunstmuseum, CH 7-8 Nov.; Mimosa House, London 16-17 Nov.; Diaphanes Space, Berlin 22 Nov. 2019
Obscene Open Studios, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Zurich, 22-27 Jun., 7-12 Sep.
SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL, Trajal Harrell - Schauspielhaus Zurich, 10-18 Sep.; Schauspielhaus Bochum, 5-11 Oct. (cancelled)
Escape Act, Alexandra Bachzetsis - Pact Zollverein, Essen 20 Oct. 2018; Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich 17-20 Jan. 2019, les Spectacles Vivants, Centre PompidouParis 14-16 Feb.; Dampfzentrale, Bern CH 24 Feb.; Kaserne Basel, Basel 01-02 Mar.; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 07-08 Mar., HAU hebbel am Ufer, Berlin 21-23 Mar.; Pioneer Works, New York 10-12 Apr.; Kaaitheater, Brussels 7-8 Mar. 2020
Dead Time Blue, Pan Daijing - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 30-31 Jan
Phase shifting index, Jeremy Shaw (film) - worldwide touring
Grandmother Mago, Zadie Xa - AGO Toronto 15-16 Jan. 2020; Tramway Glasgow 25-26 Oct. 2019; Venice Biennale 2019 Pre-opening programme 6-12 May, Art Night Walthamstow 22-23 Jun.
2019
The tremble, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins - GetxoArte, Bilbao 14 Dec.; Converso, Milan 23 May; Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 24 May
Tissues/The absent hour, Pan Daijing - The Tanks, Tate Modern 2-6 Oct.
Urbanflows immersed in worlds, Sirenscrossing/Carolyn Deby - Coventry 19 Aug.-25 Sep.
Snakes, Jia-Yu Corti & Owen Ridley-DeMonick - Soho Theatre 21 Jan., Tanzhaus, Zurich (residency)22-28 Feb., Chisenhale Dance Space 17 May
SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL, Trajal Harrell - Schauspielhaus Bochum, 18 Mar.-6 Apr.
