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Commissure: A Social Exchange - Student project
This project celebrates Chicago’s changing socio-political landscape. It is an attempt to capture and heighten the magic and mystery of the mundane, and in doing so, consider how something as routine as our everyday costumes, which may be categorized by hard work, nomadic traverses and ritual actions, may operate to energize a functional aesthetic. My body is the first site of my research. Placing it within new sites, materials, and social constructs, I investigate its movement, capabilities of transformation, cultural knowledge and the social perceptions its presence brings forth. In my exploration of the tribe named “Commissure” I employ my aesthetic of re-purposing and re-envisioning landscape, material, and historical representation with a community of collaborators to encourage connectivity, shared resources, and the cultivation of creative change. The works of such artists as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mary Oliver and Pina Bausch have inspired my approach to the Tribes Project.