rehearsing embodied ecologies: a practice of world-making
Venue • The Old Post Office • BA1 1BA • click for map
Opening night • Fri 23 May • 6pm until late
Open 11am to 6pm daily • 24 May to 7 June 2025
NB: the deadline has passed, we are no longer inviting submissions
We are in a time of climate catastrophe. A time where the remnants of colonial violence echo and shake the ground beneath us. rehearsing embodied ecologies is an attempt of collecting practices, art, conversations, perspectives, to find common ground. (What I see as a practice of world-making).
We will rehearse in the same way that every day becomes a moment to understand the relationality between the physical environment of Bath Spa and ourselves. We will embody this ecology, as a playground for comonning. Let us experiment in dreaming and thinking together the merging of environments.
** Practically, I am looking to work with artists that can work in a collaborative framework, and whose work speaks to the expansiveness of embodiment, and ecology (in our body-mind, our physical environments, or the blurring of the lines between them). Artists of historically marginalised groups are especially encouraged to apply. **
Curator Kemelo Sehlapelo - photo by Merthe Wolfe
Curated by kemelo nozipho sehlapelo
kemelo nozipho sehlapelo is a South African artist (dancer, choreographer, writer and activist). She holds her Bachelor of Arts in English and anthropology from the University of Pretoria.
kemelo moved to Budapest, Hungary in 2019, where she joined DART Dance Company's student program, completing it in 2020. She continued to work as a freelance dance artist and writer in Budapest until 2022 having worked with local and international artists. Moving to Germany to pursue her MA, kemelo has continued to expand her artistic practice.
Traversing through film, music mixing/DJane-ing, and poetry, she has most recently performed at the Makhanda National Arts Festival in Makhanda, South Africa (alongside collaborator and friend Andres Martinez), Femme Festival in Giessen, Germany, and her work has been shown at the International Theater Frauen Festival in Frankfurt, Germany and Winterfeft festival in Frankfurt, Germany. Her writing has been featured in several art and literature zines.
Kemelo is currently a member of the HATCHED Ensemble cast (choreographer - Mamela Nyamza), has performed for choreographers such as Joana Ferraz (BR) and Tamra Chase (USA), and is a frequent collaborator with Andres Martinez (CR) and Roberta Ceginskaite (IR/LT).