Federica Dauri

b Rome, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

ARTIST STATEMENT

After studying dance and choreography I specialized in a more critical investigation of body politics, philosophy of corporal movement, phenomenology, and critical theory. My studies enabled me to pursue a range of artistic mediums such as body art, performances, oration, installations, and mixed-media work.

My current work decentralizes the normative ‘corpus’ and denaturalizes the social body as a site of normalization. My work reflects a critical engagement with interrogating notions of ‘the erotic’ in body politics through a post-humanist subversion of anthropocentrism.

The human body has always been a site of projection and introspection for me. I decided to fathom these relationships along their boundaries and transparencies, by guiding a precise language of movements that makes every fibre of the body visible and creating a presence that surrenders to the gaze.

Today I would say that my artistic research questions the notion of “presence”. What does it mean to be present? I believe it has something to do with consciousness – consciousness of the self and of the environment.

Vita

  • Education 
  • 2008 - 2012 Seminars of Butoh and Eurythmy - Masaki Iwana Akira Kasai - FR
  • 2008 – 2009 Duncan 3.0 -Performing Art Intensive Course - Rome - IT
  • 2009 Scholarship Summer Intensive with Thrisha Brown - New York - USA 
  • 2001 - 2007 Dance Techniques and Dance Composition - Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma - Rome - IT
  • Research and Performances
  • 2018 Fase Orale - Research and Performance - Santarcangelo Festival - Santarcangelo - IT
  • 2017 O - Sculptural Performance - Xavier Laboulbenne Galery - Berlin - DE
  • 2018  Kheperer - Sculptural Solo Performance - Amsterdam Art Weekend - Amsterdam - NL
  • 2018 Trasformazioni Butoh Festival - Rome - IT
  • 2018 Fuori Formato Festival - Genoa - IT 
  • 2015 - 2017 Dissonanze - Solo Choreographic Performance - Raw Festival Frascati - Amsterdam - NL
  • 2017 Kraker Festival - Cantine Berghain - Berlin - DE
  • 2017 Creation and Performance - Arenahalle - Berlin - DE
  • 2017 - CorpOrale - Direction and Performance - Xavier Laboulbenne Gallery - Berlin - DE
  • 2013  Kheperer - Sculptural Solo Performance - Amsterdam Art Weekend - Amsterdam - NL 
  • Collaborations 
  • 2016 – Present 
  • Topology of the Sonic Body - Choreography and Performance - Audio-Visual Performance Installation by Antoni Rayzhekov
  • Research at Schloß Solitude - Stuttgart - DE
  • Presented at Da Fest University of Fine Art - Sofia - BG
  • 2014 -2018 
  • Corpus Mobile - Long Durational Body Installation in collaboration with Kiril Bikov
  • Cross Art Gallery - Berlin Art Week 
  • 49 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation– Kant-Garagen-Palast – Berlin – DE
  • Body in Revolt - ICK - Mediamatic - Amsterdam - NL
  • 2013 – 2014 
  • Pan:ic - Choreography and Multi-media Art Research regarding Technology and Body in collaboration with Antoni Rayzhekov and Alberto Novello aka Jestern
  • STEIM - Amsterdam - NL
  • Dansmakers - Amsterdam Transformatorio Sicilia
  • 2012 - 2013
  • Mathematics of Enclosure - Choreography and Sculptural Performance with Egon Schrama
  • July Dance - Amsterdam - NL
  • 2015
  • Performance in Christmas Calender By Markus Öhrn - Volksbühne - Berlin - DE  
  • Residencies
  • 2017 Spektrum, Multimedia Art Centre - Berlin - DE
  • 2017 ICK - Amsterdam - NL
  • 2013 - 2014 STEIM - Amsterdam - NL

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