Georgie Goater: A Day's Work
Temporary Window Exhibition at GAP, Malminkatu 5, 00100 Helsinki ┃22.5. – 20.6.2025
Filmed within the coastal landscape of Pernaja in Southern Finland, the work explores the body in relation. Bodies of water; ice, clouds, trees, and moss invite bodily sensing and spontaneous, undirected movement to arise in between these bodies of various temporalities and the camera.
Through playful movement and timing, the work attempts to both blur and shed light on perceived binaries, welcoming an embodied gaze to wander, rest, and breathe with the multiple subjects becoming within and beyond the frame.
The footage was captured in early spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The title reflects a contemplation of the meaning of work, as much of the globe was doing so at this time.
Performer: Georgie Goater
Videographer, editor and colour correction: Juha Penttilä
Sound: Juha Penttilä & Georgie Goater
Production in 2025
About the Artist
Georgie is a white, non-disabled dance artist, improviser, facilitator and pedagogue from Aotearoa NZ based in Helsinki. Her movement, choreographic and collaborative practices are inspired by the multiplicity and relationality of the body with environment; the inclusive field of diverse embodied perceptions, and materiality.
Georgie has the privileges of holding dual citizenship (NZ/UK), and of gaining visibility through graduating from Unitec (NZ, 2006) with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in contemporary dance, from Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2019 with an MA in dance pedagogy, and through working with numerous choreographers locally and internationally. Georgie has been active in the inclusive dance field since working with Touch Compass in Aotearoa NZ, and currently with Kaaos Company and DanceAbility Finland. Her dance practice is a movement of pleasure that embraces difference as a uniting force in a field of constant learning and creative expression.
Lately, her artistic practice includes moving with camera, place, and embodied inquiry in relation to transient environments. She values not-yet fully formed ideas and the life of the work itself becoming. She values dialogical practices, collaboration with different mediums and experience as the site of learning and making.
http://georgiegoater.com
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GAP WINDOW is a window exhibition project initiated by Globe Art Point in 2021. The concept was created for the members of GAP Creatives Database with an aim to provide a unique opportunity to exhibit and/or experiment with their own artistic work and ideas.
Our window is visible from the street, you do not need a special access to see it.
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https://www.globeartpoint.fi/projects/gap-window-project/
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