Christina Seely, Ruth Gibson: Coventry University Centre for Dance Research @cdare_cu’s conversation series, C-DARE invites
TIME/DATE: May 15th 1:30-3pm GMT
In dialogue with Christina Seely, Ruth Gibson offers a nuanced exploration into the ways in which an environment-based exchange anchors their artistic practices, giving shape to her evolving concept of Double Presencing. Seely reflects on the entwined roles of the animal, the body, and the land within her photographic and film work, revealing how these elements form layered, embodied ecologies. Gibson, in turn, explores the porous boundaries between reality and imagination, focusing on the liminal, often playful thresholds where creative expression takes shape. READ MORE
Visual artist Christina Seely’s multifaceted practice maps our increasingly tenuous relationship to the non-human living world. Born out of more than a decade of in-field experience working alongside climate scientists at the far reaches of the planet, her work encourages new ways of sensing the self inside the realities of climate collapse. By pointing to the perceptual limits of photographic and recorded media the work spotlights our meaningful and loaded location within increasingly fragile global systemic.
As a dancer, choreographer, and visual artist, Ruth Gibson’s research explores somatic sensing across both virtual and physical spaces, emphasising how Skinner Releasing technique and principles can inform kinaesthetic, embodied approaches to Human-Computer Interaction. Her creative practice is deeply influenced by a sense of place, shaped by performing and filming in diverse and remote locations, including Oceania, Canada, lceland, and the Arctic Circle. In collaboration with Bruno Martelli, she develops speculative narratives, immersive environments and participatory live experiences through installations, performances, and media including video, print, motion capture, video games, and extended reality.