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Habit and repetition. Habit and repetition are important to understand somatically when working with improvisation. Repetition can create space for deepening, through each repetition the movement becomes embodied with greater ease and less conscious awareness. This can serve to break the patterns of time’s hold, but habit can also be…

Image of Adrian Piper performing as Mythic Being, Image sourced from WordPress

    I am examining the dematerialization of the art object in relation to the work of Adrian Piper and Lygia Clark. I am situating their respective relationship to the art object in relation to minimalist art in the case of Piper, and neoconcretism in the case of Clark. I am then…

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In Process with Authentic Movement

It’s important to let the space remain wordless, at least the center space. The context comes about through reflections, and around the edges. It’s the wordless space of listening. Sound creates context for my movement. When I move to poetry or to my own words I can give my internal experience a…

Images of Kat Brown performing Anger in a Blank Space at the Gallatin Galleries

    Anger in a Blank Space is a performance series comprised of nine durational performances. The first six performances are entitled “Anger in a Blank Space, parts 1 –…

Image of Generator at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, originally published in New York Times. 

    Marina Abramovic’s 2010 piece The Artist is Present marked a distinct change in the nature of her work. Abramovic has been creating long duration performance pieces since the 1970s. This piece however, was the beginning of a turn toward consciousness based…

Image: Ana Mendata Siluetas Series

    The concrete nature of bodily being is typically in contrast with the ephemeral nature of the performative space. In An Ontology of Performance Peggy Phelan states that “performance’s being becomes itself…

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Because I am 1,000 Grains of Sand -

December 8, 2015

Site Specific

UT, US

Artist Statement

Because I am 1,000 Grains of Sand is a long duration movement piece that took place in the desert of Southern Utah. It is because of our bodily being that we experience ourselves as…

Photo: Painting by Kat Brown

    Dance is an art that can only exist through continuous embodiment, it’s a living expression of self and symbol that exists in the perpetual present moment. Dance is made through bodies in motion; the body is a biological entity, but the body in dance is also a conceptualized, cultured and…