Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, FR/IN/UK/JP/ZW
AliveNESS, visual art, writing
// works and exhibitions
2021 Japamala, Idolon Studio Production / Kunstfest Weimar 2021, performance-installation with Ting Chaong-Wen
2021 Transition Happens Through the Left Hand, Unfix Festival 2021, livestream moving image
2020 Hypnomotor, Chisenhale Dance Space (UK), performance to camera
2020 AO, group exhibition, moving image, Beyond Measure, Cultural Institute, Uni Leeds
2020 Black Walks / Field Trip Project Asia, mixed media, group exhibition, National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Taiwan
2019 ILINX, mixed media installation & performance, Goldsmiths Project Space
2019 Collapse, choreography in public space, Chisenhale Dance Space (UK)
2019 Tales of Fabrication, performance lecture, ASAP symposium, Tai Kwun Art Centre, Hong Kong
2019 Let the Music Make Them Dance, installation, MARs Gallery, Goldsmiths University
2019 Crochet Resistance / Tales of Fabrication, film screening & talk, Tate Exchange, London
2019 Collapse: Brexit, public space action with participants, London
2019 How to get what you want, performance, electronic craft exhibition with KobaKant, Berlin
2018 outländish, residency & exhibition, Grüntaler Galerie Berlin
2018 Theorem, group exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2018 Wild Kind, Group Exhibition & Performance, MARs Hub, Goldsmiths University
2018 Choreography as Gift, performance research project, Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte
2018 The Invisible Realm: Paths to Arcadia, Performance installation with Kyoko Fujiwara, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
2018 From here to there, Installation, Goldsmiths University
2017 Curves of the Hours, site-specific installation Nakanojo Biennale, Japan
2017 Sui Generis, performance installation, P-Bodies,Contemporary Performance Festival, Leipzig
2017 Between, group exhibition, A217 Gallery, London
2016 Loitering with Intent, group exhibition, People’s History Museum, Manchester
2016 Vacancies, group exhibition, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
2016 Collapse Manchester, performance in public space, Hazard 2016 Art Festival
2016 Sui Generis, mixed media installation & performance, Water Tower Art Festival, Bulgaria
2015 Dark Matters, performance-installation with Kaoru Murakami, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan
2015 Nameless, joint exhibition with Ryo Shimizu, Hagiso Gallery, Tokyo
2015 Field Trip Project Asia, NIE Gallery Singapore; Vargas Museum, Philippines
2015 ‘Collapse Nº1 – Shimbashi, Tokyo‘ | Performance in public space
2015 Butoh Exchange International Dancers Series, Art Centre Keio University
2014 Nothingness, Tatwerk Berlin | dance and voice performance
2014 Black March Berlin | Performance in public space.
2014 Solo Butoh Exhibition, CCCP Gallery, Tokyo | curated by Natsu Nakajima.
2014 Butoh Spring, Tatwerk Berlin | performance and workshop.
2013 RED, Isamu Noguchi Room, Art Centre, Keio University | with Yosuke Fujita
2013 Being and Seeing, Kyozon Gallery, Tokyo | performance with composer Yas Kaz
2013 ‘Making Tracks’ ONCA Gallery, UK | Group exhibition
2013 ‘Pas de Deux’, Block House Gallery, Tokyo | video installation & performance
2013 Pas de Deux, Urban Guild, Kyoto | video installation & performance
2013 Future Shorts, Chiyoda Arts 3331, Tokyo | video installation & performance
2013 Black Box, Gallery éf, Tokyo | installation & performance with sound artist Arihiro Yamada
2013 Instructions for Walks, Parlour Showrooms Gallery, Bristol | sound piece
2013 Black Marche, 59 Rivoli Gallery , Dimanche Rouge, Paris | Participatory performance in public space
2013 Third Life Hagiso Gallery, Tokyo | group exhibition
2013 Black Walk London | performance in public space
2012 Time Winds by Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohno Festival, Bank Art, Yokohama | group performance
2012 Black Box, Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Yokohama
2012 Black Walking Piece Tokyo | performance in public space
2012 Future Shorts Japan, 3331 Arts Chiyoda Tokyo | performance in artist Sandra Goldmann’s installation
2011 No Spitting, Dorset Estate (2011) | artist and curator with Mihaela Varzari
2010 Move – Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery | performer in Nevin Aladag’s ‘Raise the Roof’
2010 Barcelona Butoh Festival | solo performance
2010 Catching Shadows, V&A Museum, London | performance in designer Juliana Sissons’ costume installation
2010 The Theatre of the Viscera, La Nef-Manufacture d’Utopies, Paris | residency and installation combining in collaboration with Ingrid Hu and Matt Jackson
2010 Environmental Entanglement, Cold Comfort Farm, Connecticut | sculpture & dance collaboration
2010 The Dali Project, Labapalooza Festival, St Ann’s Warehouse New York | Performer for Puppet Junction.
2009 Spice Festival Hackney Empire, London | Solo Performance
2008 First Position, Seamus Ryan Photographic Studio, London | site-specific performance installation | Supported by Arts Council England
2008 Buried Images, BAC Scratch Festival London| performance installation
2008 Waking/Preservation, Collision Festival London | audio-visual performance collaboration with Matt Jackson
2008 Rehearsal for a Stage Show, Camley St Gardens, London | performance collaboration with Rosie Cooper
2008 Strandings, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich | performance collaboration with Cie. Tand | supported by Kulturstiftung & TanzHaus, Zurich
// talks and presentations
2019 Contemporary Drawing Research Forum, Drawing Room Gallery, London
2019 Old Lands, New Ground, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Hong Kong
2019 Futures of the Real, Goldsmtihs Postgraduate Conference, London
2018 Compost, Composition, Constellation, Practice Research Event, Goldsmiths University, UK
2018 Intelligent Futures, CHASE Conference, University of Sussex, UK
2018 Theorem: Doctoral Research in the Visual Arts, Cambridge School of Art, UK
2017 Sacred Places, Liverpool Hope University, UK
2015 ‘Body in the Contemporary City’, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona.
2015 ‘Beyond Contamination‘, Performance Studies International PSi Conference | Aomori Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
2015 ‘Where to? The future of walking arts‘, Falmouth University, UK.
2014 Berlin Butoh Festival, round table moderator, Berlin.
// awards & support
Cloud Dans Lab, The Hague, artist in residence, 2019
Cloud Dans Lab, The Hague, artist in residence, 2018
Invention Creativity Experience Award, Goldsmiths University, 2018
Nakanojo Biennale, artist residency, Nakanojo, Gunma, Japan, 2017
Sasakawa Foundation Grant, UK-Japan, 2015
Institut Français Tokyo. 2015
Lisa Ullmann Travel Scholarship Fund, 2011
Make A Difference, Tower Hamlets Community Awards, UK, 2011
Puppet Centre Trust UK, 2010
La NEF, artist in residence, 2010, Paris, France
European Cultural Foundation award 2009
Arts Council England Grant 2008
// workshops & teaching
2017, Body Material workshop, Sacred Places Conference, Liverpool Hope University
2015 – present, ‘Body Material’ performance workshops, London
2014 ‘Revolt of the body: introduction to Butoh’, Dance Foundation Course, Harare Zimbabwe
2014 Performance workshop, Tatwerk Berlin
2010-2012 Workshops in India, Norway and USA
// education
Performance & Art
Art PhD Research Candidate (current) | Goldsmith’s University of London >>
MA Performance Art, 2007 | Central St Martins School of Art, London
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