D o r s a l p r a c t i c e s 2024
We (Emma Cocker and Katrina Brown) are excited to have recently published our chapter, Dorsal Practices—Towards a Back-Oriented Being-in-the-World, in Humanities 2024, 13(2), 63, You can read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/2/63
We also had wonderful residencies this year, in Totnes, Devon (spring) and Yorkshire Exchange Space, Sheffield, preparing materials for a near-future artistic book of Dorsal practices.
A-N B u r s a r y // R e s i d e n c i e s 2023
I have been taking time-space to explore new work – moving, writing and incorporating voice-sound recording experiments, in the residency settings of RAME projects Cornwall (September 2022), PAF (Performing Arts Forum) St.Erme, France (November 2022) and was very excited to go to Hospitalfield, Arbroath Scotland supported by an A-N Bursary (Summer 2023). A hybrid project Light Hesitates consisting of text-image, voice-sound and gestural movement pieces is emerging.
D o r s a l p r a c t i c e s 2022-2023
We (Emma Cocker and Katrina Brown) were excited to share our ongoing research of somatic movement and experimental language-based practices exploring dorsality (a back-oriented awareness and attitude), in relation to how we as moving bodies orientate to self, others, environment. Presenting at Sentient Performativities Dartington UK May 2022 and SAR 14th International Conference on Artistic Research in Trondheim Norway April 2023.
b e t w e e n S o l a n d s e a a n d g r e y TATE ST IVES
Between February and May 2022, I worked with TATE St.Ives’ Young People’s Programme to make a performance with a group of dancers from TR14ers Camborne and Falmouth University, working with Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1136 in The Artist Room. A film by Neil Megaw of the performance which took place at The Last Weekend in May is screening at Tate St. Ives until 18 September 2022.
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s o u n d o f S o u n d
An audio piece by Katrina Brown & Sarah Scaife. sound of Sound emerged from a walking conversation in August 2021, skirting the nautical borders of the port and city of Plymouth, Devon.
Re-directing the focus of our CAMP Go-See-Bursary to visit the Liverpool Biennial, and needing to stay closer to home due to pandemic lockdowns, we turned towards Plymouth, a city that like Liverpool is a port with a colonial legacy and a community of artists. Plymouth soon to be visited by the British Art Show, artistic energies from within are moving transforming shape shifting the city and bodies are gathering in exchanges, huddles and kin groups.
Our conversation considered the body and the port. the intimate and global. the close and far. the visible and tangible. Also included reflecting – through the body as proposed – on how we had not been able to travel, how we have had to reorient our connection to body, other, world. On the edges of land [port] and the edges of writing [exchange]. kb/ss
CAMP is a member-led network for the creative and visual arts community in Devon and Cornwall
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I n t i m a t i n g T o u c h in W a y s & M e a n s
I am happy to be part of the online group exhibition Ways & Means (July 20-Oct 22 2020) curated by SKELF virtual project space as a response to lockdown and the disruption and necessary shifts of artists’ activities, with the 19 selected artists offering different approaches to making and presenting work.
Intimating Touch, is a screen choreography of animated collages and contemplation on scale and intimacy between bodies (human, animal, amoeboid, planetary). Enjoy.
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S o l i t a r y E n c o u n t e r s
OSR Projects Somerset
13 March 2020 10.30-4.30
Glad to be invited last minute to present alongside Angela Charles, Mark Farid and Gaada at this one day seminar: presentations, conversations and provocations, exploring aloneness through the lens of geography, technology and disability.. Solitary Encounters is bringing artists, curators and cultural producers together in rural Somerset to consider the ideas, politics and experiences of solitude and isolation through artistic practice.
This was a run-up to Od Arts Festival – which would have been happening 15-17 May and which is now postponed till May 2021
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G o S e e T r a v e l B u r s a r y / C A M P (Contemporary Art Membership Plymouth)
I was looking forward to visiting the 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial 2020 and collaborating with artist Sarah Scaife on our writing residency. Supported by a travel bursary from CAMP, we sadly have to postpone our adventure till next year. LB21 will take place March-June 2021.
We were/are particularly interested in how the presenting artists at the biennale will be navigating current concerns on both global and intimate scales – and the ways in which their art-works extend ideas to the public. We will use this focus to generate conversation between ourselves and others (public, artists, curators) around how we as moving social bodies encounter and experience art and performance works – and to produce a series of written texts that operate between absorption, perception and review.
Especially attracted to this 11th edition of the biennial because it centres around notions of the body.
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a n d a b o d y t u r n s
as part of the Group Exhibition E m b o d i e d L i n e s
21 Sept 2109 – 2 Jan 2020
The Drawing Centre, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
Katrina Brown, Liesje van den Beek, Uli Kürmer, Nicole Wendel
Opening and performance 21 September 3-6pm.
https://www.kunstvereniging.nl/exhibition/embodied-lines/
Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Kuimgaarden 1, 7478 AN Diepenheim
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P u b l i c a t i o n J A R issue 1 8
I’m pleased to be one of five expositions published in the recent edition of Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 18 July 2019. Translucent surface/Quiet body, redistributed shares ideas that from my PhD research project working with drawing as choreographic activity in relation to horizontality and surface dimension.
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R e s i d e n c y i C 4 C / D a n c e 4 July 2019
2-week residency at Dance 4 Nottingham 1-14 July 2019 to research & develop materials for my project tilt-rhythm-back: dances and drawings. Dance4
I am happy to have received an a-n bursary 2019 to further support this residency a-n.co.uk/blogs @an_artnews
Please follow instagram katrina_a_brown and my a-n blog for daily image-thought-gestures
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M o v i n g a n d D r a w i n g L a b
C h o r e o g r a p h i n g t h r o u g h t h e B a c k
Dartington Space, Totnes, Devon Sunday 19 May 11am-4pm
Info/Booking: Dance in Devon
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S A R 2 0 1 9 March 2019
A performative presentation Writing body, Annotating gesture
10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research Zurich University of the Arts, March 21-23, 2019.
Full programme SAR2019
A dancing body works with the rhythmic traces – previous and still to come – that lightly score and linger in the body – and sometimes extend as gestural articulations.
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E t s b e e s t April 2019
Performance project for and with a young audience 2-4 yrs old: moving, voicing, drawing with Katrina Brown & Han Buhrs.
After a long break we have been invited back to perform at the 20th Anniversary of Tweeturvenhoog Festival, Almere and Haarlem, Netherland.
15-21 & 22-23 April. Tweeturvenhoog commissioned us in 2007! after which Etsbeest toured extensively to European festivals and urban projects 2008-2014.
photo: Giulia Costa
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M o r n i n g C l a s s e s a t I n d e p e n d e n t D a n c e March 2019
I am leading morning classes Monday 4 – Friday 8 March 2019.
Choreographic devices, configurations and score exploring the dorsal
Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London
For more information: ID classes
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D r a w i n g a t E x t r a p o o l December 2018
December 2018, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
a body is scored too
An invitation to design and perform a drawing across three walls in the warehouse building of Extrapool Nijmegen as part of the project De Achtergrond taking place over 2018-2019.
Myself and artist Bart Lodewijks in residence at Extrapool 18-21 December 2018.
Extrapool is a venue and art space that operates in the three work-fields of sound, art and print.
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R e s e a r c h A c a d e m y 2 0 1 8
20 – 26 October 2018 at the Zurich University of the Arts & Tanzhaus Zurich
Perform. Record. Enrich. Share.
A 7 days intensive Laboratory exploring the publication of results of artistic research in the performance field.
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J a m b o r e e 2 0 1 8
A national gathering of artists and curators June 28 -July 1 Dartington Devon UK.
“LOW PROFILE invited artists, curators and programmers to become involved in co-delivering a programme of presentations, micro-exhibitions, activities and discussions to share practice. Through the programme of events LOW PROFILE hope that attendees will meet new people, find out about each others work, build new relationships and make connections that lead to new projects.” Visit Jamboree
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T w o a r t i s t b o o k s :
ASSEMBLED: tilt/dust/rhythm/ and STILLED: tilt/linger/concrete/
Drawings, texts, scores and still image. These books-documents are extending out of artist residencies at CAST Helston Cornwall UK August 2017 and Šilainia Project Kaunas Lithuania November 2017 researching body-place and orientation in relation to choreographic rhythmic structures and quiet positionings.
For more information see books and please contact me if you would like a copy.
