Chloe Chignell

"publication as a form of performance and performance as a form of publication"Chloe Chignell Chloe Chignell (AU) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Chloe takes the body as the central problem, question and location of her research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens. the durability of the object performer-ship and audience-shipa performance demands shared time and shared space shadow text at DanceHouseAmina SzecsödyJOKES - the bookthe lead artist being the hosttranslation"dance is not a language, but it is a form""it felt uninteresting to try to translate text to dance, i felt like it would just enslave the dance into a form of meaning production. dance has other skills"working with dance vs working with choreography"they are real books but they are also scenography"the difference in permanencewaterworld movie paper scenethe iconography of ballroom dancethe name - street danceanachronistic - meaningthe use of the term experimentalchoreographic frameworksto dance with or without an internalised choreographers eyelive decisions on stage"the choreography is producing syntax" links: Chloe Chignell homepageinstagramworkspace BrusselsfacebookRile bookshop and project space