Bundanon

Sarah Aiken is a video artist, dancer and choreographer from Bellingen, NSW working nationally and internationally.

Her work investigates assemblage, authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object employing repurposed materials, collage, sound, light to distort & manipulate perspectives to consider performance as a site for empathy & exchange.

Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats, working with Rebecca Jensen to create work that engages rigorously with participation, waste and a reckless formalism, recycling content to consider materiality and how we come together. Their cult classic, zodiac themed participatory dance events have been running for 10 years across the world, inviting audiences into cathartic and thoughtful performative experiences. Sarah is a grateful recipient of the Creators Fund and the Chloe Munro Fellowship, artist in residences at HIAP Suomenlinna (Finland), Dancenorth (Townsville) and Centre for Projection Art (Naarm) – creating new work across stage, screen, gallery and site responsive contexts.

In Residence at Bundanon

Body Corp is a compelling & urgent consideration of the entanglement of the human & non-human, attempting to dissolve the divide that inhibits our ability to connect with, empathise with & learn from the non-human world. An assembled choreography for video, image & object, the work considers the body as a conglomerate – blurring the synthetic borders western culture has drawn around ‘human’ & ‘nature’, ‘self’ & ‘other’. Drawing on the aesthetics of magical realism, the dancer does magic at the border of the screen creating chimeric & ever forming bodies – magician, mass, monster, multitude, traveling in time, transfiguring self & reality.