Interview filmed during a Baryshnikov Arts Residency taking place at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY. Video by Julia Discenza.
Photo L-R: Katarzyna Pastuszak and Natalia Chylińska by Deborah Lopez.
Work in progress performed at the IKM (Urban Culture Institute) in Gdańsk, Poland as part of the Between.Pomiedzy Festival, May 18, 2024.
Maya Ciarrocchi – concept, direction
Created in collaboration with:
Natalia Chylińska - movement
Joanna Duda - sound
Katarzyna Pastuszak - movement
Sarah Laux - garment consultant
To complete the work, monitors will play a looping video depicting individuals moving in the landscape while wearing the survival garments. The locations and bodies will shift in an infinite loop between locations experiencing high incidents of human migration due to conflict and climate change.
This initial work sample was filmed along Poland's Baltic Sea.