Join Art/Work Association’s next session on 4 June at 7pm for ‘Precursing: Fictional Futures, Perceiving the Present.’
In this event, Artists Nina Davies and Richard Pye will discuss using fiction as a methodology for research. They will explore how the freedom of fictional futures can regain autonomy over physical practices and how the absence of fact can allow new insights into present societal environments. Drawing on their ongoing collaboration and personal practices, they will explore how movement practice can lie outside of the realms of time. They will investigate the links between autonomy, cultural movement practices, anthropological and political observations and the embodiment of human experience.
This event has been organised by Richard Pye. The session is free to attend and will be held on Zoom. Please register by emailing info@artworkassociation.org
Working primarily with video, performance, writing and installation, Nina Davies considers current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments from which they emerge. Previous research projects have included; the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices. Her work has recently been exhibited and shown at Matt’s Gallery, London; Transmediale, AdK, Berlin; Seventeen, London; Pradiauto, Madrid; and, Chemist Gallery, London. Her work has been selected to partake in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023; Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. In 2021 she co-founded Future Artefacts FM with artist Niamh Schmidtke and was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme and in 2023 they produced a mini series for Het HEM’s online programme The Couch.
Richard Pye is a queer movement artist. Through live performance, film, discussion and facilitating interdisciplinary workshop environments, their practice explores the radical potential of movement as a vessel for learning, communication and liberation. Through improvisation, physical rigor, complex contact exploration Richard delves into and devises the agency of people. Richard has performed nationally and internationally for 9 years with James Cousins, Jose Limon Festival NYC, Studio Wayne McGregor, Lea Anderson, Russel Maliphant Co, Rosemary Lee, Gareth Chambers and more. Richard has also worked with Live Art, Fashion and Film collaborations with artists such as visual Artist Afra Zamara, Sculpture Artist Eva Rothschild and Poet James Massiah. Richard has created works at RichMix, DanceEast, The Place and toured Internationally as well as created film works for Venice Bienale, Studio Wayne Mcgregor and Nowness and Music videos for Jon Bringwolves, Casswell and Juri Xi. Richard has also worked as a Movement Director for publications such as Vogue Italia and Gay Times and for brands such as Selfridges, Ice Watch and Stonewall.