at the edge of Somewhere [2025]
Through the application of choreographic strategies to explore public spaces of Yerevan, at the edge of Somewhere is a performative map of the city that engages with the architectural, social, and cartographic contexts of the areas explored. Research for and performance of this solo dance work position the Outsider as both the mapmaker and reader. Traces of pathways are combined with observations of space to create an impression of place in movement; locating technologies demarcate the here to build a sense of the now.
The performance will be preceded by Mapping Places: Cartography and Choreography in Artistic Research, an invited artist talk at the Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan (ICA). For nearly two weeks, I will be in residence at the NEST Art Residency of the ICA to create at the edge of Somewhere. In the talk, I will share my particular approach to cartography and choreography as well as methodologies used when making the new work.
A site-sensitive work, at the edge of Somewhere will premiere as a work-in-process in the gallery spaces of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK) on 29. March 2025. Audience will be invited to view the performance from all sides, with open permission to change their vantage point at any time.
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Photo and video documentation of the work as well as texts generated for the sound score will be uploaded here soon.
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The sound score will be created in collaboration with Liam Byrne.