Silk Scarf and Dance

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The project is a series of workshops that explore the narrative infrastructure of personal archives. During the workshops, participants will be asked to consider what the architecture of an archive could be through a series of discussion and text-based exercises.

Choreographic Laboratory: How do lost objects move us? 

Experimental movement research and devising

Please send expressions of interest to silkscarf.dance@gmail.com by midnight March 11th.

Lillian Ross-Millard is a video artist based in Scotland. Her practice documents physical research methods adapted from alternative theatre processes. This method of research can be thought of as an open-ended process, where participants are invited to gather items of writing, personal experience/testimony, their own research, music and objects around a central question. Once gathered, the collection is then synthesised on an individual basis into a repeatable series of gestures. These gesture scores serve as modular pieces of knowledge which are then exchanged amongst the participants. It is knowledge but it is also a dance. It is social science but also poetry.

This project is curated by our curators in residence, Cecelia Graham and Grace Jackson.

About the artist

Lillian Ross-Millard (Toronto, Canada, 1993) is a video artist based in both Canada and Scotland, and recently completed her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art (2020). Her practice documents physical research methods adapted from alternative theatre processes. Conducting this research in group situations as well as independently, she directs participants to reflect on symptomatic relationships between experience and the habitual movements of the body. Parodying the scientific, the process is ultimately poetic, and is designed to remap the meanings and narratives we subconsciously assign to our daily gestures and choreographies. 

About the curators

This is the third project as part of Cecelia Graham and Grace Jackson’s yearlong collaborative curatorial residency at PS². Throughout the residency, the duo have developed a mode of working that aims to challenge curatorial intentions that centre around strict outcomes. Instead, Cecelia and Grace have created a space for artists to test ideas or return to work considered unresolved. The projects below have been curated by the curatorial duo:
1- Mark Buckeridge- Handycam Gifts
2- Bog Cottage
3- Tara McGinn- A Change in the Cells 
4- Christopher Steenson, June 2023

More information about the curatorial residency can be found here.