interested in how different kinds of movement are available to different bodies in different contexts.
Osso's, Making Grass exhibition, brings together drawings and prints, as well as a performance piece, exploring the interrelationship of dance and drawing. The result is an innovative collaboration at the centre of this project, between Osso and the Afro-fusion dance company Moving Into Dance (MID) that envisions a verdant area to experiment with different movements of the whole body. The initiative employs the idea of establishing a lawn within the dance studio as a representation for sustaining and advancing concepts regarding personal identity, freedom to move, and communal beliefs.
The project found its seed in the idea of imagining a green space together – a lawn in the city – where the dancers and Osso could playfully explore the range of marks that can be generated when the whole body is activated as a thing that draws.
There are so many fascinating connections to be drawn and ideas that emerge from this – raising questions of individual identity, open spaces, safe spaces, and spaces for experimentation and play.
Making Grass explores whether it is possible to invent a new metaphorical landscape grounded in community, collective stories, experimentation, conversation, movement, and mark-making.
As an extension of the exhibition that opened in early June this year, the David Krut Projects Gallery will be hosting a walkabout aimed at supporting ideas relating to individuality, open spaces, and collective ideology. The show will unpack conversations about the meaning of safe spaces where experimentation is allowed, encouraged, and important.
Tamara Osso will conduct a walkabout on Sat July 15 at 10:00.
