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This early stage of research and experimentation will develop initial ideas around glacial movement, force and slowness, building on my ongoing explorations of human and material relations and the everyday choreographic.

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Referencing practices of somatic liberation which understands our relationship to our body mirrors our relationship to the land (ref. Adrienne Maree Brown & Robin Wall Kimmerer), I look to glaciers, one of the great ancestors that shaped the land I live on in Scotland, to understand teachings on slowness, collectively, and interconnectedness of species across time, on an embodied, spatial and political level.

 

Working to devise movement scores derived from geological data, I investigated movement languages of erosion, pushing, scraping, dragging, depositing and forming that can translate across bodies of different experiences, ages and abilities in an intergenerational cast as the project develops.

 

The project will aim to explore human and environmental entanglement through interrogating how bodily and geological movement and slowness, might relate to understandings of resistance, climate change, colonialism, collective action and ableism.

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Header Image: Digital collage by Laura Fisher. With photos by Emily Nicholl & Morton J. Elrod (courtesy of K. Ross Toole Archives, 1911

​All Other images: Laura Fisher