2021 another audience artists

Schetlick and Bibler are independent artists who have been collaborating together since 2009.

Many of their collaborative investigations use dance improvisation as a strategy for challenging habitual ways of perceiving and engaging with “place.”

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Individually, the residency at Black Hole Hollow has supported each of their work as artists, researchers, and educators. Schetlick is creating a new course for undergraduates at the University of Virginia called “Movement and Environment” that invites students to question the tyranny of humanism and (re)generate embodied strategies for living with precarity on a damaged planet. Bibler is drawing on insights gathered through residency experiences to develop analytical and practical frameworks for cross-species attunement in a forthcoming PhD dissertation chapter. The residency has also supported their work as collaborators, by providing an opportunity to further develop a practice-as-research methodology that attempts to engage with performance sites as living collaborators rather than static backdrops.

They are currently working on a ‘zine that distills some of their guiding questions and describes movement practices that emerged from the residency period, in the hopes that the material will support other artists that are interested in moving performance beyond human-centered perspectives.