BIOGRAPHY:

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Caitlin Dear is an artist working through choreography, performance, academia and practice-based research who is currently based between Melbourne (Australia) and Stockholm (Sweden). Engendering a sense of clinical wonder and focused multiplicity, her works encourage audiences to ponder philosophical problems from an embodied perspective, with a scientific sensibility.

 

Informed by her research practices, she works choreographically with movement, attention, text, sensory stimulation and relations to create performances and live works. Through immersive or participatory elements, she often seeks to engage audiences with the inquiries of her work first hand.  

Investigating the fluidity and relationality of experience, and looking towards semantic multiplicity, Caitlin is busy exploring how the nature of perceptual experience affects the way we communicate/interpret meaning, and interact with the world. She is also compelled to interrogate the notion of ‘nature’; often working in dialogue with vegetal species.

 

Caitlin has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) which she completed between DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts (Sweden) and Deakin University (Australia).

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ARTIST MISSION STATEMENT:

 

  • I want to exist in dialogue with philosophical and scientific work

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  • I want to engage people with their perceptions and subjectivity to

       engender reconsideration and criticality

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  • I want to create live art where the power structures between

       audience, performer, author and work are malleable

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  • I want my work to speak inclusively to broad audiences

PRESENTATION OF WORK:

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      Meaning - Nothingness (in-process performance)

      June 2018, produced by INSISTER SPACE, Weld, Stockholm 

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      Tree Time

      June 2018, Stockholm

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      Qualia

      June 2017, Platform Festival, The Owl and Cat Theatre, Melbourne

      March 2017, within festival Size Doesn’t Matter (really), Testing Grounds, Melbourne

      May 2016, within double bill Perceiving in Action, Testing Grounds, Melbourne

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      Programmed Responses

      November 2016, First Run program, Lucy Guerin Inc, Melbourne

      September 2016, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne    

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ACADEMIC/DIDACTIC:

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      Presented at the conference Working With The Vegetal held at Uniarts, Sweden, 2018

 

      Facilitated an ‘open reading space’ at Index Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, 2018

      Facilitated a session for POSSE- a dancing/reading group, Sweden, 2018

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      Facilitated sessions for Test{ing} Club- a group for collective practising, Melbourne, 2017

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DISCOURSE/DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS:

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Interested in platforms for artistic exchanges, with Jessica Matheson Caitlin initiated Test{ing} club- regular 'malleable meetings' which provide an informal space for people of all (un)artistic backgrounds to exchange, collaborate, challenge, propose, critique, test, expand discourse, support each other, practice together- do together.

 

She is also a member of Insister Space, Stockholm-based organisation and network who "work with artistic practices as a base for organization and mobilizes itself towards a dancefield made of support and common engagement in art instead of an increasingly individualized workforce". 

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Whilst studying at Deakin University, she initiated and directed a co-curricular education program, inviting guest artists from varying disciplines to teach workshops focusing on research, performance making or socially engaged practices. Participants were aided in relating information to their own work and in forming interdisciplinary and collaborative relationships with peers. 

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PERFORMANCE HISTORY:

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2018 (Stockholm, Sweden):

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      Meaning - Nothingness by Caitlin Dear (in progress performance), Weld

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      Splendour by Stina Nyberg, remounted for DOCH (Department of Dance and Circus),               Stockholm University of the Arts

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      Borrowed Landscape by Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki, presented site specifically           at supermarket ICA Maxi Lindhagen, for DOCH (Department of Dance and Circus),                   Stockholm University of the Arts

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2017 (Melbourne, Australia):

 

      Tim Collins Speaks by Geoffrey Watson, performance lecture commissioned for the               Dance Speaks program, Counihan Gallery

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      The Infirmary by Triage Live Art Collective, Punctum Inc. 

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      Qualia by Caitlin Dear, Testing Grounds and The Owl and Cat Theatre

 

      Untitled Performance by Natalie Abbott, MPavilion

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2016 (Melbourne, Australia):

 

      Re-Vault by Jonathan Sinatra, M47 Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art &           Batman Park

 

      Wrapped by Hiromi Tango, Melbourne Festival Public Art Biennale, Queen Vic Markets

 

      The Sequel by Leah Landau, Dancehouse

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      Social Studies: Epic Theatre by Shian Law, Dancehouse

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      Trilogy by Nic green, Arts House

 

      Untitled Performance by Ashlee Barton and Caitlin Dear, commissioned by Alexandra             Chambers as a part of exhibition Celestial Bodies, The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent

 

      NOW. by Kaitlyn McConnell, as part of the programme Signature, Studio 221

 

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2015 (Melbourne, Australia):

 

     Bells and Whistles by Shaun Mcleod and Never Arriving by Olivia Millard, as a part of

     double bill Move to Go for Deakin University, Studio B

 

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2013 & 2012 (various locations):

 

      Couched by Kynan Hughes and Scratch the Surface by Alice Lee Holland and James               O’Hara as a part of the triple bill Threefold for STEPS, State Theatre Centre of Western           Australia, Perth, Australia

 

      Scratch the Surface by James O’Hara, Alice Lee Holland and Ruth Osborne for STEPS &         Quantum Leap, TNUA theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
 

      Try Hard by Alice Lee Holland and Adam Wheeler for STEPS, State Theatre Centre of

      Western Australia, Perth, Australia