New Work: Keira Greene

We are delighted to present three films by Keira Greene in the context of our New Work screening series, showcasing recent work by artists based in the UK.

Keira Greene works across moving image and performance. Her practice is critically engaged with the filmed image of dance and the moving body on screen. She also works with language, exploring how text, speech and images can be turned into scores for movement, music and script. She often collaborates closely with dance artists and musicians to develop this research. At LUX, she will present three recent films accompanied by contributions from Lucy Mercer, who will read poems concerned with ecology, the body and esotericism; and Irene Revell, who will share excerpts from her recent archival research into the ‘feminist performance score’.
The three films  – Eustatic Drift, Grain and x-comme-x – develop Greene’s research in to the slippery status of somatic experience. They span a three-year inquiry in to ‘the body as a site’ for finding and evolving language, in relation to speech, words, landscape and movement. Greene explores ways to represent the complexity of human and non-human bodies in their entanglement, focusing on the ‘felt-time’ of working with open-scores.
Greene’s interest in open scores, from vegetation, to plankton, to wolves, to photographs, began in 2015 when she visited Anna Halprin’s Mountain Home Studio to make her work Grain. This investigation continues in Eustatic Drift as dance artist Katye Coe activates a 500 million year old Graptolite fossil, and in x-comme-x as buried voices emerge from rock, spoken by Fatima Djabri. Her current research focuses on the common behaviours of humans and wolves.
Followed by a discussion with the artist and contributors.