reta Gauhe
Choreographer, Dancer, Producer, Researcher
Practice in Motion Digital Programme Notes
Practice in Motion brings together artists and practice-based researchers working across dance, performance, visual art, archives, ecology, moving image, socially engaged practice and immersive technologies. Across installations, performances, films, conversations and embodied encounters, the programme foregrounds artisti practice as a mode of inquiry and knowledge production.
Some installations, films and artworks can be encountered throughout both days. Performances and provocations are programmed specifically on either Friday or Saturday.
We kindly ask everyone to check the suggested time plan for both days below. Whenever installation works, artworks, performances, or dedicated mingling periods are scheduled, we warmly encourage visitors and participants to actively use this time to explore the works on display, engage with the artists, and experience the exhibition as a shared and evolving space of exchange.
Please click here for more information about Friday’s artists and their works.
Please click here for more information about Saturday’s artists and their works.
Friday Time plan:
4.30 - 4.50 Alexah Tomey-Alleyne
4.50 - 6.00 Installations and Mingling
6.-6.15 - Zining Liu - Presenting interactive set-up
6.15 - 7 Installations and Mingling
7.25 - 7.40 - Klaudia Wittmann Performance
7- 7.20 - Henrietta Hale Performance
7.45 - 8.20 - Tara Fatehi - Performance
8.30 - 9.00 Manuella
Saturday Time plan:
10.00 - Long table discussion provocations
10.30 - 10.45 Timothy Lim (presentation)
10,45 - Julia Pond (discussion)
11.00 - 11.30 break - Time for installations and artworks
11.30 - Michaela (performance)
11.50 - Long Table Open provocations
12.15 - Deborah & Greta pop-up performance
12.30 -Loren (discussion)
LUNCH 13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 18:00 (Performance Block)
14.00 - Marguerite Performance
14.30 - Teddy Hunter Performance
15.00 - Florence & Eve Performance
15.30 - 16.15 break and time for installations
16.15 - W.K Lyne
16.35 Jake Parry (20) 10 talk and demo/performance
16.50 Melissa (10 min version)
Both Days
Greta Gauhe | At a Touching Distance
The collection of practice brings together a series of installations, film, audio-recordings and field notes. Visitors are invited to move through the space and engage with the work at their own pace. Some works are encountered directly, while others remain as traces. Rather than presenting a fixed outcome, the collection invites your own encounter with touch as something that unfolds across time and space.
Bio: Greta Gauhe is a choreographer, dancer, producer, and researcher working across dance, visual art, and digital performance. As Artistic Director of Follow Through Collective and a PhD candidate at Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), she creates immersive and participatory experiences exploring connection and embodied interaction across physical and digital spaces.
Henrietta Hale | Labour Archives in Suspension
This video performance lecture and installation works with raw archive footage from a 1970s shipping industry ‘Project of Change’. Exploring tensions between idealism, labour and resistance to change, the work examines how people perform themselves within negotiations and institutional systems.
Bio: Heni Hale is a movement and performance artist and researcher working across somatics, social sciences and archival practices. Her work explores movement and embodied re-enactment as methods for activating archives and reimagining group relations and industrial systems.
Julia Pond | Metabolizer
An interactive installation exploring economic growth, exhaustion and value production through dance and data. Participants encounter a speculative office environment for invisible dancing.
Bio: Julia Pond is an artist and researcher exploring intersections between dance and political economy through performance, writing and embodied research.
Amelia Crouch | Mouthpiece / In Search of Solidarity (Rebound)
Moving image works exploring neoliberal subjectivity through gestures of constraint, resistance and fleeting solidarity within ambiguous workplace-like environments.
Bio: Amelia Crouch is an artist and PhD candidate at University of the Arts London investigating neoliberal identity through moving image and performative practice.
Frances Yeung | MFM – Come guard yourself against self-destruction
This 3D-printed reconstruction of the Matta Fancanta Movement emerged through workshops with Northampton’s African and Caribbean communities. The work explores digital reconstruction as resistance and critical fabulation as socially engaged practice.
Bio: Frances Yeung is a West Midlands-based designer, artist and researcher exploring decolonial socially engaged art practice through community collaboration and installation-based work.
FRIDAY
Alexah Tomey-Alleyne | reimagining blackness
This practice investigates how Blackness can be reimagined through dance improvisation, using movement as a way of accessing embodied cultural memory and reassembling Black movement vocabularies.
Bio: Alexah Tomey-Alleyne is a movement artist and researcher working between Contemporary dance and Black studies. Her work interrogates Eurocentric views of Black bodies through improvisational practice.
Florence Peake and Eve Stainton: Practice 1
Practice 1 is a formal task of interlocking at the crotch. Eve Stainton and Florence Peake engage in ongoing physical connection, disconnection and re-negotiations to reflect on notions of futility, commitment, continuation, need, process, difference, determination and strife.
Klaudia Wittmann | 2:30
A site-specific live performance emerging from research into abuse in women’s gymnastics. Using sculpture, movement and sound, the work explores the affective traces of violence and bodily rupture.
Bio: Klaudia Wittmann is a choreographer and artist-researcher whose interdisciplinary work spans live performance, dance theatre and moving image, often exploring gendered violence and bodily politics.
Timothi Lim | TBC Work: Coordination Under Ambiguity
A room-scale Social XR demonstration where participants solve spatial puzzles through nonverbal interaction and generative audiovisual systems.
Bio: Timothi Lim is a practice-based PhD researcher exploring XR, generative AI and socially negotiated interaction in immersive environments.
SATURDAY
Melissa Pasut | Mud
This work examines the pointe shoe as a site of layered complexity within western classical ballet, using butoh as a method of interrogation. Working with composer Andrew Leslie Hooker, the project explores dialogue between body and sound through improvisation.
Bio: Melissa Pasut is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work explores dance, sound and embodied inquiry through experimental performance practices.
Loren McK | Remembering without cement
An invitation to think collectively about archives, grief, tactility and memorialisation through conversation and engagement with stone and cairn-building.
Bio: Loren McK is an artist and researcher whose work moves between movement, archives, access practices and queer/disabled histories.
W.K. Lyhne | Thinking Through Painting
Through painting and moving image, this work examines reproductive labour, theology and economic structures in late medieval Europe. Practice functions not as illustration of theory, but as a method of generating knowledge.
Bio: W.K. Lyhne is a London-based artist and doctoral researcher at University of the Arts London. Her work explores feminist materialism, medieval economic history and posthuman philosophy through painting, film and text.
Deborah Di Meglio & Greta Gauhe | Collapsing into the Equilibrium Line
A pop-up performance where sheets of paper become shifting landscapes, choreographic partners and sculptural environments. The work explores collapse, care, ecological instability and intergenerational collaboration.
Bio: Deborah Di Meglio is a visual artist with over 40 years of international exhibition and socially engaged arts practice. Her work focuses on art as a catalyst for social change and community engagement.
Marguerite Galizia | Rolling on the Floor
A self-performed solo emerging from research into self-choreography and improvisation, inviting audiences into matrixial relations through shared ground and embodied witnessing.
Bio: Marguerite Galizia is a dance-maker, Pilates teacher and doctoral researcher exploring improvisation, somatic attention and choreographic practice.