Title of Dialogue:
Iron and Granite: IN Conversation
Structure of the presentation/ dialogue:
Date: August 10th
Location: Uffer studios, studio #6
Timeline:
-6:00 PM 15’ Kate’s performance
- 6:15 PM 20’ open gallery space
- 6:35PM 15’ Flavia’s presentation
-6:50 PM 20’ discussion
Short descriptive text about dialogue presentation:
The Transart Institute
Berlin, Germany – The Transart Institute presents Flavia Bertorello’s Fragmented Body and Kate Hilliard’s Core Sample: A Creative Practice, August 10th, 2019 at 6:00pm, Uferstudios GmbH
Uferstr. 23. Iron and Granite exhibits the sculptural and performance work of two graduating Masters students, as they complete their final research in Creative Practice at The Transart Institute. Both worlds explore the changing states of materiality over time, to denote varying ranges of distance between memory and trauma.
New York based artist and architect, Flavia Bertorello investigates relationships between form and matter through a domestic practice which includes: writing, experimenting with metals, observing and listening. The bodies that she creates are the remnants of the exchange that takes place between her body and the materials during the process of making.
Toronto based artist Kate Hilliard describes movement as a language. Her practice focuses on spoken words and the many ways that our bodies can betray meaning as we communicate and miscommunicate. Hilliard writes poems into the body and crafts performances from the body, as a way of distilling what has happened. Her dance thesis is both book and live performance and is expressed through five separate chapters: subject, code, conversation, fracture, and memory.
Please join artists in residency from the Transart Institute for an evening of exhibition and dialogue in studio 6 at Uferstudios on August 10th 2019 at 6pm.
What are the connection between the partner/s, common themes, questions, what you will discuss?
Common Themes:
-Space is the background/ backdrop where we both refer our practices to. Kate uses space as a dancer, Flavia explores the domestic/ intimate use of space as a maker.
- Both our practices are Interdisciplinary
- Speaking from different angles. We are both acknowledging a cut though our practices. We address the body with intent and care to further acknowledge and understand the break, the fragments.
I would like to talk about (Flavia):
- Boundaries between life and art practice: tension/ confrontation, contemplation/ transformation within my domestic practice.
- Integration between my practice as an artist & architect: the embodiment of balance as the thing I’m aiming for.