C-DaRE Invites… Lucy Cash, Tia-Monique Uzor, Katrina McPherson and Simon Ellis

Featuring the films The Noise My Leaves Make (2022) by Uzor, How The Earth Must See Itself (A Thirling) (2019) by Cash and Simone Kenyon and the photographic work of Henning Langenheim (1950-2004).

As part of this year's The Body and Land series, Katrina and Simon host Lucy and Tia-Monique to discuss how human bodies infect and are affected by land, and the specific ways the lens of a camera helps us imagine and reimagine our past and future entanglement with earth.

Tia-Monique Uzor is a lecturer in Contemporary Caribbean and African Diasporic Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As an artist-scholar, she uses Africanist dance to explore diasporic worlds through embodied, interdisciplinary research. Her AHRC-funded project, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, examines Black ecological and social injustices through digital practice.

Lucy Cash is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and moving image-maker. Choreographic, improvisational and relational practices shape the works she makes. Through different mediums her body of work invites us into an expanded sensory reciprocity with the more-than-human.

Katrina McPherson is a director, artist and educator. Her films have been exhibited widely and often involve landscape, bodies and the blurring of reality and fiction. Katrina is the author of Making Video Dance (Routledge, 2019) of which she is currently writing a third edition and is the Course Leader of the MA Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School. 

Simon Ellis works with choreography and filmmaking. He was born in Aotearoa New Zealand, but lives in the UK and works at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. He grew up in a family where conversations about dignity and equality were common and these conversations have shaped his values as an artist-researcher.