Forum #7 - Dominique Baron-Bonarjee with Martin Hargreaves

19 Jun 2019

Artist and PhD researcher Dominique Baron-Bonarjee (Goldsmiths) presents new writing entitled In order to withstand the weather, we become liquid, alongside an excerpt from Inner Material/Material by choreographer and founder of Butoh Hijikata Tatsumi, and dramaturg, writer, performer, and academic Martin Hargreaves (London Contemporary Dance School) joins us in discussion.

Dominique Baron-Bonarjee’s practice is based on physical inquiry as a way into expanded modes of cognition and altered states of consciousness. Her current PhD in the Art Department at Goldsmiths entitled Space of the Nameless explores wobbling as a mode of transit for unstable times. Recent exhibitions and works: Collapse at Chisenhale Dance Space, lecture-performance at Tai Kwun Centre in Hong Kong (ASAP Symposium, 2019); screening at Tate Exchange (2019); artist-in-residence at Cloud DansLab, The Hague in 2018. – dominiquebb.com

Martin Hargreaves is a dramaturg, writer, and performer and his research practices range between boredom and hysteria. His primary interests are in the recent history of contemporary dance, queer performance arts, and camp misunderstandings. In 2003 he was awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled Performativity, Spectrality, Hysteria and from 2003 to 2013 he was the Editor of Dance Theatre Journal. From 2005 to 2015 Martin was Programme Leader of the MA The Body in Performance at Trinity Laban. He has worked recently with Pablo Bronstein, Boris Charmatz, Nicola Conibere and Yvonne Rainer. This year he is the Guest Dramaturg at South East Dance’s Dramaturg in Residence programme, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and was a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer in Performative Practices at DOCH, Stockholm before taking up the post of Director of Undergraduate Programmes at London Contemporary Dance School. – lcds.ac.uk