Paula Kramer
Venla Helenius
Paula Kramer is an artist-researcher and movement artist based in Berlin. She holds a practice-as-research PhD in Dance (Coventry University) and was a post-doctoral researcher at Uniarts Helsinki between 2016 and 2019. She is currently active as an independent artist-researcher and until the end of 2020 as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research of Uniarts Helsinki.
Her work explores intermateriality through site-specific, outdoor movement practices; rooted in Amerta Movement (Suryodarmo) and Non-stylised and Environmental Movement (Poynor). She draws on new materialist thought and collaborates with materials of many different orders as active agents in the creation of movement, performance and choreography; as well as daily life practices and sense making.
Practice includes
outdoor movement/performance practice and choreography; writing/publishing, poetry; movement-based photography, video and writing as documentary practices alongside artistic research practice
Practice Statement
My work is body-based and emphasizes practice especially in the context of artistic research. I explore intermateriality as a way of choreographic making and work with, through, apart from and alongside materials of many different orders, especially outdoors. I consider all materials and lifeforms to be active agents in the creation of movement, performance making, choreography, daily life practices and sense making.
I am deeply committed to develop and participate in teaching, research and making structures that allow for critical pedagogy, collective thinking and body-based making/writing/thinking.
Related research & practice areas:
docufiction and creative writing;
ecology and environmental activism;
expanded studio practices;
experimental pedagogies;
movement, dance, choreography;
new materialism, object-oriented ontology;
publishing as an art practice;
space and temporary architecture;
walking as an art practice;
intersectionality / feminist art-life practice