Artist talk: Camilla Crispino and Laressa Dickey

Index welcomes you to a talk with artists Camilla Crispino and Laressa Dickey. Their presentation follows their residency at Munnen in Bagarmossen, where they will work in the community with 1:1 movement portraits. Their practice proposes an impossible task of trying to catch moments that are already gone, through mark-making. They ask: Is it possible to document the becoming of a moving body by following a line? To transfer onto paper not a supposed copy but the process of its continuous transformation? How can we make the performative notation of a moment? How can we stay with an elusive line in the other, that edge? At Index, they will share the experiences of the practice in the community in Bagarmossen, talk about their collaboration, and do a live practice together.

Camilla Crispino is a researcher, educator, and artist in the fields of movement research, language and writing. She creates and facilitates workshops, seminars, and artistic interventions that blend movement practices, dance research, and creative dramaturgical writing within educational settings, community-based participatory projects, and performative contexts. Her training has been significantly influenced by her extensive collaboration with Simone Forti. Crispino has graduated as a Somatic Movement Educator from the School of Body-Mind Centering and earning a Master’s in Authentic Movement from the Italian Art Therapy Institute in Bologna. She completed the Danzeducatore training program, supported by the University of Bologna. Camilla has also recently graduated as a Certified Movement Analyst from Whole Movement (USA). Crispino is also an active member of the mirmica Association, which specializes in designing, conceptualizing, and conducting artistic-educational projects with high community and social impact, and is a co-founder, along with An Paenhuysen and Giorgia Minisini, of the minìsae collective, an interdisciplinary artistic research platform in the fields of movement, writing, and visual arts.

Laressa Dickey is a dance artist, writer, and bodyworker based in Stockholm whose recent projects explore the politics of care, the effects of state violence on the human body, and space junk. Her work spans disciplines and modalities. She’s the author of the poetry books Syncopations and Twang. Together with sound artist Andrea Steves, she published Radio Graveyard Orbit, a speculative book about space junk. For Bergen Assembly 2019, she and her partner Ali Gharavi created How to Pass Time With No Reference, an multi-media installation about their experiences inside/outside the Turkish prison system. A longtime student of somatic practice, her artistic research has been supported by the Kone Foundation; she researches the dancer’s use of language and the writer’s use to/for dance. She leads writing workshops from the perspective of poet/dancer/artist, working across and through discipline, and teaches Writing Alongside Artistic Practice, at SKH, an elective course which includes university students and working artists. Laressa is an active member of withing, an international cohort of Somatics and Language-Based artistic researchers; and a member of the performative collaboration MISLEADING SUBJECTS.