Submerge

VIDEO WORK ON THREE SCREENS:  00:03:45 

Camera by Dianne Reid (b&w)  
Concept, performance and editing by Amaara Raheem

 

Submerged is a dance-on-screen made in response to receiving 23 Days at Sea residency curated by Access Gallery. Submerged activates body, imagination and sea as an in-between space, exploring what’s just above and just below the surface of water, an incremental depth that is in continual flux and generation. Submerged plays with notions of this body’s ability to keep afloat whilst simultaneously submitting to uncontrollable forces such as wind, tide and waves. Positioned between earth and sky, place and placelessness, above and below, submerge places stillness in relation to continuous motion, rise and fall.  

Shown at:

Footscray Community Arts Centre, 2015

Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catherines, Canada
13/10/2016-10/01/2017

Colombo Dance Platform, 2016

An exploration of the lines between above and below the surface of water, the surface of skin, memory, dreams and lives not yet lived, things gone and things yet to come. A woman floats in the sea, submerged between continents, between states of being and becoming, between depth and surface. She is a vessel, both container and contained.