felt room

felt room

A unique performance installation presented by the BodyCartography Project at the White Page Gallery.

Olive Bieringa’s felt room is a performance installation designed to conjure imagination, speculation and perception, engaging viewers in a practice of vibrant potentiality. In the darkness of the felt room viewers are offered an escape from a world of constant illumination. Energy, vibration, intimacy and imagination are the primary materials at play. Dancers move into and out of the darkness, transforming our perceptual field. Unfolding somatic landscapes offer an opportunity for a deeply felt personal experience, one that can be at once disorienting, deeply therapeutic and profoundly energizing.

In this cultural moment what we see and what we consume from our screens dominates our understanding of the world. felt room provides a much needed respite, and opportunity to acknowledge and practice other ways of knowing and imagining. felt room is a space for sleeping, dreaming, visioning, and co-imagining. Through its visual absence this dance heightens the volume of the audience’s imagination freeing it from mental constraints as there are no handles in the dark and no ways to mark time. felt room as a feminist space will draw viewers into space of fluid folding and transformation.

“From darkness to dimness to light – the “felt room” was a revelation.” Caroline Palmer, Big Town Dance Blog

 

Installation runs June 29 from 6-9pm & June 30 from 7-10pm (Audiences are invited to arrive and depart in their own timing. Come for the whole arc or part.)

$10-20 suggested donation. Space is limited to 30. Bookings are essential.
Email info@bodycartography.org to reserve


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