Salma Lilarasa Nathoo

Ecological Artist and Dance Movement Psychotherapist

 

My practice is often collaborative and socially engaged, exploring the interfaces between contemporary art, movement and ecology. I use somatic sensing (body awareness) and movement as a research methodology to explore relationship with nature. This follows into using whatever medium is appropriate to communicate an area of enquiry: site-specific performative practice, participatory events, documentation of process, film, installation, sound pieces, sculpture and drawn and text ‘scores’, concerned with relational play between body moving and contextual environment. The practices are intended to engage all involved in sensory experience, inviting a somatic and kinaesthetic engagement – our sense of body, movement, location, connection. The invitation is a recovery of a non-dual understanding of the elements and our environment located in embodied experience.