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A little bit of me
I love moving. As long as I can remember I was always interested in moving. Dance was my way into studying this world. It took many years and lots of traveling to understand in this messy field what I was really interested in. It was not dance forms or styles. My passion was really to learn the mechanics of movement, our animal-self. With that I found Freedom, freedom from form, institutions, academia, competition, a safe and solid place where I could teach myself about myself where I could sense myself in relation to everything else. With that I found the beautiful logic of life and its elements, the connection to my weight, my energy, gravity, air, life and The Earth and It changed my placement in the world. |
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Around my early thirties while working next to visual artists on dance projects I saw how much I loved being involved in these making and thinking processes.I felt very alive and something awaken in me.
I started to have desire to make things to gather to assemble materials and see what happened. I started seeing the world outside the dance studio and my own body.
Like movements taught me about my body, the objects and the worlds I started creating were teaching me something else about myself I didn’t know.
I never realized I had this ability to create, build, see possibilities and new worlds until someone one day told me I had this ability. This revelation brought a new understanding of myself. I realized I don't know my brain.
And so I started practicing following my interested in gathering and assembling and see what happens, figuring myself out,
and what else is there to figure out other than your life in relation to everything else around you?
ARTIST STATEMENT
Form is the result of energy patterns, behavior, accidents, chemical balance....
Form is always there
Possibilities are always there.
I sense energy around me.
I observe my body and how it connects to everyday life through movements.
I practice movement improvisation
I practice listening, seeing.
I practice using my hands.
I practice cleaning outside.
I practice composting.
I practice saying hi to people.
My work, at least for now, feels like a puzzle. Gathering pieces to understand the whole pictures., to fix what’s broken, to find what’s missing.
It helps me coping with the madness of the world of human beings.
It reminds me of beauty.
It keeps me hopeful.
It keeps me alert.
Laura Quattrocchi is a movement and visual artist. Laura was born in Padova, Italy and moved to New York City in 1995 to study contemporary dance and relocated to Detroit in 2016. Central to her dance development was meeting and working with Daniel Lepkoff ( Contact Improvisation, Movement Research ), Elaine Summers ( Kinetic Awareness), Karl Anderson ( Skinner Release ), and Joshua Bisset. She discovers her interest in visual arts and fabrication after collaborating with visual artists Diego Britt, Sylvestre Gobart and Agata Oleksiak. In 2000 she joins shuagroup.org founded by Joshua Bisset her long time collaborator. Her current practice includes concepts, fabrication, set design, performance and visual art. Her individual visual and performance works have been presented at venues including The Newark Museum, The Queens Museum, The American Visionary Arts Museum, The Jersey City Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Detroit Contemporary, The Harn Museum of Art, ShuaSpace, and The Gateway Project in Newark. Laura has performed as a dancer with David Parker and The Bang Group, Mary Anthony Dance Theatre, Tam Le, Kun-Yang Lin, Andrea Haenggi, Elaine Summers, Jody Oberfelder.
She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in 2016 by New Jersey State Council of the Arts in the category of interdisciplinary performance for her work Spring Rain. She is also one of the chosen artists representing New Jersey in the 2014 Newark Museum Arts Biennial.
She is one of the founding member of a community space called Andy in Detroit.
Photo: Diana Quinones Rivera
I started to have desire to make things to gather to assemble materials and see what happened. I started seeing the world outside the dance studio and my own body.
Like movements taught me about my body, the objects and the worlds I started creating were teaching me something else about myself I didn’t know.
I never realized I had this ability to create, build, see possibilities and new worlds until someone one day told me I had this ability. This revelation brought a new understanding of myself. I realized I don't know my brain.
And so I started practicing following my interested in gathering and assembling and see what happens, figuring myself out,
and what else is there to figure out other than your life in relation to everything else around you?
ARTIST STATEMENT
Form is the result of energy patterns, behavior, accidents, chemical balance....
Form is always there
Possibilities are always there.
I sense energy around me.
I observe my body and how it connects to everyday life through movements.
I practice movement improvisation
I practice listening, seeing.
I practice using my hands.
I practice cleaning outside.
I practice composting.
I practice saying hi to people.
My work, at least for now, feels like a puzzle. Gathering pieces to understand the whole pictures., to fix what’s broken, to find what’s missing.
It helps me coping with the madness of the world of human beings.
It reminds me of beauty.
It keeps me hopeful.
It keeps me alert.
Laura Quattrocchi is a movement and visual artist. Laura was born in Padova, Italy and moved to New York City in 1995 to study contemporary dance and relocated to Detroit in 2016. Central to her dance development was meeting and working with Daniel Lepkoff ( Contact Improvisation, Movement Research ), Elaine Summers ( Kinetic Awareness), Karl Anderson ( Skinner Release ), and Joshua Bisset. She discovers her interest in visual arts and fabrication after collaborating with visual artists Diego Britt, Sylvestre Gobart and Agata Oleksiak. In 2000 she joins shuagroup.org founded by Joshua Bisset her long time collaborator. Her current practice includes concepts, fabrication, set design, performance and visual art. Her individual visual and performance works have been presented at venues including The Newark Museum, The Queens Museum, The American Visionary Arts Museum, The Jersey City Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Detroit Contemporary, The Harn Museum of Art, ShuaSpace, and The Gateway Project in Newark. Laura has performed as a dancer with David Parker and The Bang Group, Mary Anthony Dance Theatre, Tam Le, Kun-Yang Lin, Andrea Haenggi, Elaine Summers, Jody Oberfelder.
She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in 2016 by New Jersey State Council of the Arts in the category of interdisciplinary performance for her work Spring Rain. She is also one of the chosen artists representing New Jersey in the 2014 Newark Museum Arts Biennial.
She is one of the founding member of a community space called Andy in Detroit.
Photo: Diana Quinones Rivera