Lisa Colette Bysheim: Dust Devils

Dust Devil is an engagement of mass movement and togetherness in interplay with the public sphere. It’s a research project exploring sonic and choreographic landscapes expanding and evolving, rotating and spiralling, in an open exploration of emergent qualities.

Through site-visits and observations of Athen’s public squares, a series of scores will be developed based on the public’s movement pathways, patterns, sounds and interactions. I am curious to explore how self-organising theories can be used as a choreographic intervention of togetherness in outdoor public spaces. How can a group of performers moving through a landscape of chaos and order, becoming a physical, poetic, and political power of mass assemblage?

With Dust Devil, I want to develop choreographic methods that transform principles of self-organising systems, from nature and public spaces to the body; to explore the significance in the interactions and social relations within a group. My fascination for this project lies in working with ideas of communal becoming to discover the unpredictable, nonlinear, and unknown occurrences within a mass of bodies in space, through movement and sound.

Lisa Colette Bysheim is an Onassis AiR Fellow within the framework of the Transmissions project, that is supported by the EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms 2014-2021.