(thoughts on utopia and drowning in concrete)
razmišljanja o utopiji in utapljanju v betonu
James Risbey & collaborators (April 2026)
Thoughts on utopia and drowning in concrete is a multidisciplinary performance and exhibition. Eco/Urban-somatic films are screened alongside somatic movement and live sound design, as variations on the concerto unfold through improvisation and ritual.
---Contemplations on reflecting dependencies. Nature and humans as both caretakers and destroyers of each other.---
James Risbey is a Canadian-born, Slovenia-based artist focusing on Visual Art and Audio Works. https://jamesrisbey.com/
Photos: Leandro Lefa
Photos: James Risbey
Films by James Risbey (CAN/SLO)
Featuring Movement Artists:
Barbara Kanc (SLO)
Neža Jamnikar (SLO)
Kelly McInnes (CAN)
Miku Tsuchiya (JPN)
Somatic Improvised Performances by:
Maryam Bagheri Nesami (IRN/FIN)
Georgie Goater (NZL/FIN/JPN)
Neža Jamnikar (SLO)
Swan Song
Kaaos Company & workgroup (2022)
WORKGROUP
Performers: Sally Davison, Gunilla Sjövall
Mentors: Maija Mustonen, Rea Liina, Georgie Goater,
Sound: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski
Light: Sofia Palillo
Costume/Set: Heli Hietala
Film and Image: Rea Liina
Producer: Sally Davison / Raila Knuuttila
Premiere: 15.03.2022, Monitoimitila O, Helsinki
Performances: 16.03,18.03, 19.03.2022
X Dance Festival 2023
When I die, life consumes me.
Things become formless,
wings shed their feathers
and become featherless wings.
My hands, your hands – “I know this hand”
– a featherless wing holding the sky.
“I know what it is to listen to this hand.
I recognise the softness of the skin.”
- - Georgie Goater and performers
Photo: Georgie Goater
I(S)LAND BODY
Body Island NZ (2020)
A home and land-based research development project with two Aotearoa-based dance artists Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn, and two Finnish-based dance artists Georgie Goater (NZ dance artist living in Helsinki) and Gesa Piper (German dance artist living in Helsinki) working on choreographic and performance ideas during the Covid19 pandemic in 2020.
Thanks to Creative New Zealand for their support.
The project is a collection of our thoughts, practices and processes, accumulating in a series of images and videos investigating the themes we discovered along the way.
WORKGROUP
Project Leader: Kelly Nash
Concept: Georgie Goater and Kelly Nash
Collaborators: Nancy Wi'John, Gesa Piper
Gestural hand video exchange
Editing: Nancy Wi'John Song: Georgie Goater