​​I am Fernanda Branco, a performance artist from Brazil, based in Norway since 2005. My work crosses boundaries between avant-garde theatre and dance, and it is placed within performance art.

 

My hybrid work explores the relationship between body and voice, focusing on visual aspects through installations. I hold an MA in Fine Arts in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy and a PhD in Artistic Research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.  My artistic work is based on the relations between body and environment from an ecological perspective. 

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My performance's leitmotif is presence, working throughout perception and the senses. The main - and only - rule is to channel a perceptual communication between her and the viewer.​

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 concrete-simple actions within abstract-poetic visual forms in the present moment of transformation

 

My artistic research and work are grounded in embodied and contemplative practices that engage the body as a place of knowledge-making through sensing, perceiving and enacting in co-creation with the environment. Through the poetics of embodied experiences, I propose encounters with the more-than-known aspects of life, widening perspectives, attending to what unfolds in between, and noticing what is often unseen or overlooked. These are practices that persist in enchanted worlding. My work embraces the agential and sentient dimensions of the world and explores how we might listen and develop responsive forms of languaging with species across realms.

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