"You can't step into the same river twice"
A glare in the mirror, a dance of vulnerability for a fig tree, looking for the obscurity in truth & trying to overcome thinking that I know what's good.
An intimate performance, utilizing memory and relationships to evoke a series of ad hoc actions.
Participation integrated in the program Rewilding Cultures / Creative Europe
Sara Cowdell (she/her) is a New Zealand performance artist and curator based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the director and founder of Performance Art Week Aotearoa, as well as an independent curator. As a performance artist, Cowdell utilises multiple modalities including action, costume, somatics, and ethnography to explore society through a formalised and qualitative intimacy. Cowdell's work strives for a raw viscerality and lingers on the uncomfortable textures of lived experience.
Cowdell has worked extensively with site-specific practices and has created and presented work in numerous political, natural, and unusual sites, alongside traditional arts spaces. She has presented work across New Zealand and Internationally.
