Event: Performing Arts Encounters Public Lecture - Nicola Conibere, 'Excessive Bodies and Choreographic Practice'
Date: 21 November 2024
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Valletta Campus Theatre, Valletta
Photo by Christa Holka
In this presentation, Dr Nicola Conibere will introduce her recent live work Carareretetatakakekerers (2021) and video portraits Holding-Still-Holding-Still-Holding-(2024) as part ongoing research that asks through what terms and conditions some bodies are considered to have exceeded themselves: to have asked for too much space or time or support. This project responds to a context of austerity and the celebration of self-reliance in popular Western political discourse in recent years, and instead asks what unique knowledges are produced when we embrace the ways in which people require interdependence, affect others and take up space. From contagious laughter to structures of care, it asks what futures or relationships can be imagined when we work from these connections.
Carareretetatakakekerers (2021) and Holding-Still-Holding-Still-Holding-(2024) were co-created with Annie Hanauer, Helka Kaski, Ming, Duncan MacLeod, Lucille Acevedo-Jones, Marty Langthorne, Martin Hargreaves. Nic’s previous work Assembly has been presented in galleries and a range of civic spaces, and explored the relationship between choreography, spectatorship and ideas of a public. Her gallery work Do-Re-Me considered the conditions through which we can recognise a body as human. Nic is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Roehampton in London.