Barbara Gamper
Barbara Gamper, Somatic encounters, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Barbara Gamper is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice expands from movement, somatics, performance, moving image and textiles. The physical self, embedded in an archive of personal experiences rooted in systemic power dynamics, plays a central role in her research and artistic practice. Part of her everyday work involves somatic explorations, which challenge systemic patterns humans internalise from socialisation, in order to experience the body as a porous and fluid form—not ending at the skin—and to expand its experience in interconnection with other (human and non-human) materialities and ecologies.
She uses movement (embodiment) as a form of care and potential tool for (inter)personal and social transformation. She is currently studying on a three-year programme in somatic pedagogy at the SomaticAcademy in Berlin.
somatic encounters / earthly matter(s) You Mountain, You River, You Tree is an audio piece in which Gamper takes viewers on a hike across the landscape of Vallunga, inviting them to discover and reconnect to the history and landscape of the territory through a process of learning and awareness that departs from their own body to reach a wider consciousness that to exist is to be in relation.
Click here to listen to the audio tracks:
INTRO→
YOU TREE→
YOU RIVER→
YOU MOUNTAIN→
Barbara Gamper, Earthly matter(s). You Mountain, You River, You Tree, 2022. View at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Barbara Gamper
Barbara Gamper, Somatic encounters, 2022. Performance at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Barbara Gamper is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice expands from movement, somatics, performance, moving image and textiles. The physical self, embedded in an archive of personal experiences rooted in systemic power dynamics, plays a central role in her research and artistic practice. Part of her everyday work involves somatic explorations, which challenge systemic patterns humans internalise from socialisation, in order to experience the body as a porous and fluid form—not ending at the skin—and to expand its experience in interconnection with other (human and non-human) materialities and ecologies.
She uses movement (embodiment) as a form of care and potential tool for (inter)personal and social transformation. She is currently studying on a three-year programme in somatic pedagogy at the SomaticAcademy in Berlin.
somatic encounters / earthly matter(s) You Mountain, You River, You Tree is an audio piece in which Gamper takes viewers on a hike across the landscape of Vallunga, inviting them to discover and reconnect to the history and landscape of the territory through a process of learning and awareness that departs from their own body to reach a wider consciousness that to exist is to be in relation.
Click here to listen to the audio tracks:
INTRO→
YOU TREE→
YOU RIVER→
YOU MOUNTAIN→
Barbara Gamper, Earthly matter(s). You Mountain, You River, You Tree, 2022. View at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
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