Whatever I am / let it be seen is the translation from the Turkish of a prayer that is traditionally recited before the reading of coffee grounds. I feel called to linger on divination as an emergent practice; it is here that I find endless similarities with the practice of dancing. Both have to do with permissiveness, with subtle perception, with a fetish for energy shifts, in the way things move and are moved. Both have to do with an ancestral relationship, with the suggestions that being here brings, the sophistication of that language. My relationship with divination is a daily affair, perhaps I should say pedestrian, I would refrain from calling it a practice. Perception and emergence a close relationship with translation I feel drawn to the thought of poetry as prayer, or as the practice of praying. To dance as prayer. What happens when dancing becomes praying? I don’t mean praying strictly in the traditional/religious sense, I’m interested in thinking about formulation, poetic and somatic, as forms of magic. I am thinking of dance as what allows all other things to emerge.
With Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin there will also be F. De Isabella
Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an Italian artist of Armenian descent who practices in the contexts of dance and live performance. Trained in dance, their work manifests in movement video text choreography sound gatherings and deals with the relationship between dance, divination and writing; with geography and the opposite of belonging; with fetish for language, its politics and its many frictions. They started their artistic practice in 2010 in collaboration with Marco D’Agostin and Francesca Foscarini, with whom they founded the Cultural Association VAN (2014).
PARTNER
Associazione Culturale VAN
CCA Glasgow