From where I have landed. An evening of Video Performance.
Robyn Jordaan, Jazmine Rose Phillips & Sara Cowdell
7/9/19

“With love from South Korea.”

Sara at the time was in South Korea attending the 10th Anniversary of PAN Asia: performance art network festival. She sent back a postcard in the form of a video work, a short documentary of performance art and everything in between. 

"Sometimes I'm somewhere, sometimes I'm here”

Jazmine shared a film of self portrait. Sinking, soft yells and the lapping of water.

“Particle Particular”

During Robyn’s Residency at Betonest Artist Residency in North Germany, she created particle particular it is an obsession with dust, pressure points and awkward unorthodox choreography.

“Otolith”

During Robyn’s residency NES international artist residency in Skagastrond, Iceland she filmed and performed Otolith a work that was formed from research done with the Biopol Marine Science Lab in skagastrond working with the otolith bone and pays homage to the first release of names during the christchurch shootings in 2019.

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Sara Cowdell is the performance facilitator at play_station gallery, the artistic director of Performance Art Week Aotearoa and an artist. Her personal work uses movement, storytelling and costume to confront uncomfortable emotions. As a curator Sara's work has an overarching ethos based on community building and supporting performance artists across the world, her work encourages meaningful engagements.

Jazmine Rose Phillips aka him is a queer performance Artist, theatre maker, sound designer and activist she seeks to embrace the grit  and beauty of the human experience. Her creations use pleasure , pain, sound , spoken word , movement, film, ritual and the female body/experience to evoke her audience to embody their emotional selves. Jazmine writes and performs music under the name him. Most recently co- produced and performed in  “best dance” award winning show Rosemary.

Auckland-based performance artist and film-maker, Robyn Jordaan, works with dance and film to offer up a visceral array of concept exploration, including body somatics and absurdist theatre. Jordaan is driven by contemporary literature; creating comedic-horror type unstructured narratives, contrasting starkly with our current regime - a technocratic society where human nature seamlessly follows a prescribed outline.

Facilitated by Sara Cowdell.

Sara Cowdell

Robyn Jordaan

Jazmine Rose Philips