In Exploring Contamination Lab through movement and text workshops with Georgie Goater, we will attune our bodily senses and playfully engage with contamination as collaboration, through the lens of life in the ruins and the art of encountering the unexpected. An embodied matrix of movement and text-based tasks, relational scores, and reflection facilitates a safer playground for bodymind inquiry, with an invitation to experiment, be present with the emergent, and, hopefully, ask more questions.
This workshop is free and open to the public
December 13th from 14-15:45
Veeran Verstas, Lossikuja 6, Tuira, Oulu
Accessibility: The workshop is open to all interested, however, unfortunately, there is no sign-language interpreter. For further inquiries please get in touch.
To register or for more information, please contact Georgie at
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Co-curators Jiyoun Lee and Arlene Tucker created Contamination Lab in 2024 to study things we don't know yet, to clarify misunderstandings and to create togetherness. Our network of trans-national participants investigate contamination and what it means to contaminate or to be contaminated through ecological and human perspectives. Contamination Lab is inspired by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book The Mushroom at the End of the World as it “argues that staying alive— for every species—requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across differences, which leads to contamination. Without collaborations, we all die.”
Georgie Goater is a dance artist from Aotearoa, currently based in Helsinki. Her work has spanned Aotearoa, the UK, and Finland as a performer, facilitator, and choreographer over the past two decades. Her practice has developed within disability and multicultural art contexts, honouring each person’s unique embodied intelligence and perception, activated by relational and feminist perspectives.
https://www.globeartpoint.fi/creatives/georgie-goater/
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This workshop is funded by Arts Council Korea 한국문화예술위원회. Bioart Society provides advisory support to Contamination Lab. Veeran Verstas provides the space and community outreach. Thank you all for your support!
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