Interdisciplinary Practice and The Body

ABOUT
This research lab is for all artists across all art forms and all bodies.

A series of embodied explorations deconstructing space, time, shape, movement, emotion, and logic as kinetic materials. Through both critical and creative reflection, these body findings are used to provoke and locate new conceptual ideation, methodological approaches, and techniques for creation.

What does it mean to create from the body ‘as is’?
What does exploring sensorial phenomenon open up within our practice?

In attempts to dissolve hierarchies between these six materials, these sessions are designed for artists to discover new creative processes. And through these processes reveal new possibilities for the thinking behind our work, how we talk about it, and the artistic palettes available to us.

A practice that, hopefully, leads to more questions than it answers.

This workshop is driven by questions that have emerged from Mary Overlie’s life work of the viewpoints.

*Whilst working body-first, participants are free to bring in whatever tools they need to do to their work ie. camera, instruments, paint...etc.

ABOUT RUBY

Ruby Donohoe (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work offers defiant acts of sensitisation and is rooted in the politics of encounter. With a background in contemporary performance and a body-based practice, Ruby works with text, choreography, sculpture, installation, and participatory practices to create work for theatre, gallery, and digital spaces.

She graduated with distinction from a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Drama and minoring in Scenography (QUT, 2014), Zen Zen Zo’s Performance Internship (2014), the biennial 2016/17 SITI Company Acting Conservatory (NYC), and Playlab Theatre’s Incubator Program (2018).  She has taught embodied practice at QUT to acting, music, and dance students as a tutor (2018 - 2020), Expressions Dance, Open Practice (Backbone Arts), Technicolour Theatre, Kelvin Grove State School, and run independent classes including Embodied Practice for Directors (Playlab Theatre) + Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints (Backbone Arts). 

Ruby is currently an artist-in-residence on Chambers Island as part of the Sunshine Coast Council + Creative Spaces’ 3-mth Crows Nest Residency. Special thanks to Maroochy Sailing Club for making the space available.