(il)elible inkscription explores language as a palimpsest on bodies, transforming text across mobile, malleable surfaces – merging print and choreography through embodied scores. The exhibition opens with a co-laboured imprinting as the artists press text onto one another’s bodies, fragments press/ed through movement and context.
Joanna Cook (she/her) is a dance artist, researcher, and teacher based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa. She is currently completing a PhD in Dance Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau—University of Auckland, where she also teaches across multiple papers, including third-year contemporary technique. Her research and creative work engage feminist methodologies, material ecologies, and multimodal composition, with a focus on care-full approaches to co-labour and documentation. Her choreographic works have been presented at TinyFest, Bus Projects (Melbourne), theend.Gallery, Window Gallery, and ProjectSpace, and she was recently invited to present her practice and lead an open class at the Lace Symposium as part of ImPulsTanz (Vienna). Her practice contributes to feminist resistance, choreographic experimentation, and the shaping of tender(e) ecologies through practices of re:pair, (at)tending, and care.
Steve Lovett teaches print technologies at Elam, in the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Auckland. Steve Lovett’s studio is centred on acts of collecting and reworking images and texts to develop forms of counter narratives. These have taken the form of sound archives, text based work, photo documentation, collage, and most recently, performance. Lovett’s pedagogical research concerns the acquisition of various forms of literacy by ‘first in family’ students transitioning to tertiary study, developing structured approaches to knowledge and skill acquisition relevant to both theoretical learning and practical application.
Presented as part of DEPOT’s 30th year celebration.