About
Charli Brissey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and teacher who works choreographically with various technologies and materials. This primarily includes bodies, cameras, language, instincts, and ecosystems. Their research integrates studies in feminist theory, technology, and science, and centers choreography as an invaluable methodology to research social-political-ecological phenomena. Brissey has been creating performances, installations, experimental videos, and written scholarship for over seventeen years, and has been presented in various galleries, conferences, film festivals, and performance venues nationally and internationally.
Current Work
My creative work approaches choreography as a research method to study how bodies, objects, and information move through world. In my writing, video, and performance work I draw on science fiction as a method of organizing new systems and spaces outside of cis-patriarchal white supremacist models. Interrogating issues of power, access, and identity have always been central to my research between choreography and technology. I think a lot about infrastructure and design as forms of choreography, and how the systems we build and engage with are never neutral as they often claim to be. This varies in scale from structures of class room discussion, to policy-making, to algorithms and virtual platforms. In the reverse direction, I think embodied and/or choreographic research gives us specific strategies to develop more inclusive models that fundamentally support difference and long-term sustainability.
Research Area Keyword(s)
ecology, performance, queer, technology