Gretel Taylor
A NASCENT TETHERING, PERFORMANCE
29 March, 4.30pm
Meet at Erskine River Swing Bridge picnic area
Gretel Taylor is a dancer, artist, curator and researcher. Her site-responsive performance works often interrogate settler-colonial presence on unceded Aboriginal Country, and colonisation's relatedness to ecocide. Her improvised dance practice of 'locating' enacts a kinaesthetic empathy with place. Taylor is lead artist/curator of BodyPlaceProject, a key artist of Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), and collaborates regularly with photographer-filmmaker Laki Sideris.
A nascent tethering is a performance responding to the site of the Erskine River estuary. From the position of a colonial body seeking to merge with—rather than possess—this place, Gretel Taylor topples the detachment of her forebears, starts to weave strands of connection, and listens through her senses to move with its currents. Taylor will host an additional workshop to engage participants with awareness and responsiveness to their environment.
This project was made possible by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia, and Regional Arts Victoria.
Image: Gretel Taylor, Scourge 2019. Photo Laki Sideris.
