Ariadne Mikou
With a background as an architect, choreographer, dance performer and movement educator, my artistic and academic research is focused on the social forms that emerge from the crossover between corporeal, spatial and screen-based arts and has been presented in various international contexts. I experiment with the curation of screendance as a social art form and most recently, I contributed as an artist-scholar to the curation of a virtual museum, a site that holds the story of the Creative Europe project Dancing Museums-The Democracy of Beings. Since 2020, I collaborate as a Research Assistant with the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice for the SPIN project Memory in Motion: Re-Membering Dance History (2019–2022).
Abstracts
Choreographing Events: Demolition, Trace and Encounter
PhD Roehampton University
In Choreographing Events, demolition, as a process of transformation, becomes an artistic method; a choreographic strategy with multiple expressions. Demolition can be seen as a transgression of disciplines, as a choreographic strategy for intervening in space and as a critical approach to how and what to archive.
More specifically, this practice-as-research enquiry (Haseman, 2006; Nelson, 2013; Rendell, 2004) aims to explore the space that lies between the disciplines of dance, choreography, architecture and the screen. Through these interdisciplinary encounters, demolition appears as a dynamic process that allows movement in the liminal space between stability and mobility, trace and disappearance, and permanence and ephemerality.
Informed by Bernard Tschumi’s thinking, I draw connections between event spaces (1996) and the work of choreography to un-do, and thus demolish, fixed perceptions of space. Event-spaces as a triangulation of movement, space and action are applied in the performing space of the theatre-architecture (specifically the Black Box Theatre) and have been expanded in the tracing as writing (choreo-graphing and cinemato-graphing) of architecture as an event-based, and thus spatio-corporeal, and archival practice. Two practice-as-research projects, Choreographic Process Architecturally Devised (2015) and Anarchitextures (2016) offer a critique of the traditional forms of dance-making inside theatrical places, proposing an expanded choreographic practice that questions the theatrical apparatus while revealing the performativity of space. This research is relevant to dance artists and architects interested in spacemaking practices, re-theatricalisations, site-interventions and embodied ways of activating and archiving architecture.
Title |
Dance artist-scholar, Architect |
Level |
PhD |
Contact |
mikouariadne@gmail.com |
Further links |
www.amikou.com |
