BAU AIR DOTE Residency
Chilean artist of Palestinian origin, Francisca Khamis Giacoman relates the fragmentation of diasporic memories into performances and audio-visual installations. She ties together family archives and collective memories into different solidifications of in-between states of being. Stories of migration unfold at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. After receiving a package from her family in Chile, she uses the same gesture and brings forth a new object to the scene. This object folds the fabric of her research together with memories of her family’s business manifesting the multitude of states of in-between-ness that permeate her life.
Caer Ascendiendo (Fall Ascending)
During her residence period starting on March 24, Khamis will continue working on the piece Caer Ascendiendo (Fall Ascending), with the idea of ‘in between’ identities, looking into stories of diaspora through a choreographic activation of tailored textile and its connection to her own family business.
Once a year, BAU and Dancing on the Edge team up to host the BAU AIR DOTE. This residency provides four weeks of time and space for a performing artist, whose work resonates with both BAU and DOTE, to dive deeper into their artistic practice and research without the pressure of producing a finished piece of work. BAU and DOTE find their common spark in the belief that performing artists should be able to be and think freely in the pursuit of their artistic goals. Moving between different borders, bodies, histories and (pre)conceptions.
Public sharing with Francisca Khamis
21 April 2023
20:00
at BAU, Entrepotdok 4, in Amsterdam.
Photo by: Carmen Gray
