C-DaRE invites … Christina Seely and Ruth Gibson
15 May 2025, 13:30-15:00 UK time
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Ruth Gibson and Christina Seely offer a nuanced exploration into the ways in which an environment-based exchange anchors their artistic practices. Seely reflects on the entwined roles of the animal, the body, and the land within her photographic and film work, revealing how these elements form layered, embodied ecologies. Gibson, in turn, explores the porous boundaries between reality and imagination, focusing on the liminal, often playful thresholds where creative expression takes shape.
Biographies
Visual artist Christina Seely’s multifaceted practice maps our increasingly tenuous relationship to the non-human living world. Born out of more than a decade of in-field experience working alongside climate scientists at the far reaches of the planet, her work encourages new ways of sensing the self inside the realities of climate collapse. By pointing to the perceptual limits of photographic and recorded media the work spotlights our meaningful and loaded location within increasingly fragile global systemics. Her work is held in many public and private collections and has been exhibited widely. She is a recipient of a John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship, a University of Edinburgh IASH Environmental Humanities Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and earned a master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 2023 in line with her work. She is a current ’24-25 US/UK Fulbright Scholar hosted by University of Dundee and is based in Scotland.
https://www.christinaseely.com
Ruth is a pioneering figure at the intersection of dance and technology. As a dancer, choreographer, and visual artist, her research explores somatic sensing across both virtual and physical spaces, emphasising how Skinner Releasing technique and principles can inform kinaesthetic, embodied approaches to Human-Computer Interaction. Her creative practice is deeply influenced by a sense of place, shaped by performing and filming in diverse and remote locations, including Oceania, Canada, Iceland, and the Arctic Circle. In collaboration with Bruno Martelli, she develops speculative narratives, immersive environments and participatory live experiences through installations, performances, and media including video, print, motion capture, video games, and extended reality. Her work is exhibited internationally and has earned numerous accolades, including the prestigious Lumen Prize. Ruth is an Associate Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research and is a regular contributor to academic publications and international conferences.