Alison Gill

Now I am a dancer! With over three decades of experience in sculpture, my artistic practice is anything but linear. Rooted in a transdisciplinary approach, I weave together somatic perception, performative installations, and collaborative projects. My other training in psychoanalysis and research at Trinity Laban and Independent Dance has shifted my exploration of what is felt before language is found to pin it down. Through the strategies of improvisation and humour, I am pushing and pulling at boundaries, charting new speculative pathways that engage with complex contemporary conditions (local, global, planetary and imaginary) and being present.

I invite you to look beyond everyday ways of seeing and experiencing the world. For me, art and increasingly embodied and improvised practices serve as micro-magnifiers and transformers of reality. This process of engagement can challenge dominant systems of power and address environmental destruction. My goal is to create alternative perspectives and alliances, however fleeting and contingent, for being with the mess.

I create works that blur the lines between sculptural form and choreography, bound to otherworldly dislocation. Recent projects have focused on de-materialising experimentation through working with my body as a medium in space; the manipulation of time, shifting between past, present, and future and through various modes of representation and distance. The result is an immersive experience. My practice exists in direct conversation with its current situation and with the viewer, that’s you. It forges moments of intimacy, humour and collective reflection.

Whether I’m investigating invisible hallucinatory phenomena, performing improvised narratives with paper props, or inviting you to enter unfamiliar places, my work is about creating grounds and habitats for critical thought, shared feelings, and holding space for this. I invite you to join me in wandering, further still, into the unknown.

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