Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nescio
Julie Dind, Rolf Gerstlauer, Inga Chinilina (2023, 11’35”)
Screened – together with the films Être Chat by Sebastian Wiedemann, and The Blue Wave by Ting Tong Chang – in the Sound/Motilities section of the Uroboros Festival’s Alter Eco/s Nest on Un/learning From Lost to the River on December 1st at 12:45 (CET) in the old cinema of the Petrohradská kolektiv, Praha, and online in a YouTube live stream. The films in this selection “explore in/coherent connections between bodies through spontaneous movement and dancing with instincts and surprise.” The opening activity invites audiences to “Walk until your feet feel sticky” and is followed up by asking “In what ways can instinctive episodes of insight be mobilized and shared so they can be a part of un/learning and teaching processes?
Alter Eco/s Nest : Un/learning From Lost to the River
A one day hybrid event happening on Sunday December 1st – online and in person in the old cinema of the Petrohradská kolektiv in Praha – as a crossing of Uroboros & the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (IEFF) exploring un/learning approaches, contexts and situations that attend to non-human presences and agencies within art and design. Artists and designers will invite audiences to practice an embodied / performative opening activity before introducing and showcasing their IEFF films. There will be a joint open discussion afterwards, weaving the works with questions and comments from onsite and online audiences. The event is facilitated by Enrique Encinas and Rolf Gerstlauer with the kind support of IEFF festival directors Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek and IEFF festival curator Mônica Bernardes.
Julie Dind:
Dancing Hors Sujet: Butohing/Bodying
(Julie Dind, 2024, Brown University / TAPS)
Short-film (18′) and paper presentation at
The Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium brings together teachers, researchers, students, activists, and practitioners across the arts, whose work and/or lived experiences engage with concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence in relation to fields in the arts and arts education.
Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nescio
Weird’s Tale; There Will Come Soft Rains
Julie Dind, Rolf Gerstlauer, Inga Chinilina
Online screenings of Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nesio (2035, 11’35”) and the documentary of our multimedia live-ecoperformance Weird’s Tale – There Will Come Soft Rains (2024, 50’38”) at the Alter Eco/s : Un/Learning in Climate Dissonance segment Eco/performing More-Than-Human Worlds, Thursday November 7th 18:00-21:00 @ the AHO Pub & Akerselva. The screening was followed by artist talks and an Akerselva (Akers river) un/learning activity/performance for guests, students and faculty of The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO).
Julie Dind – Dissertation defense:
October 9th 2024, Julie successfully defended her doctoral thesis A(u/r)tistic Wor(l)ding at the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies (TAPS) at Brown University, Providence, Rhodes Island/USA. Her main supervisor was Leon J A Hilton (Brown University, TAPS), and the readers were Spencer Golub (Brown University, TAPS), Laura Odello (Brown University, French and Francophone Studies), Mara Mills (New York University, Steinhardt, Media, Culture & Communication) and Bruce Baird (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Japanese Studies). The image is a photograph by Timothy Archibald titled Closed System (2008), published in Echolilia : Sometimes I Wonder, Echo Press 2010
Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nescio
Julie Dind, Rolf Gerstlauer, Inga Chinilina (2023, 11’35”)
Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nescio was shown in the Ecoperformance Film Festival Exhibition (Mostra Ecoperformance Film Festival) that took place from October 1 to 5 2024 in architect Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompéia (earlier called the Centro de Lazer Fábrica da Pompéia), São Paulo/Brazil. The film selection, curated by Maura Baiocchi and Mônica Bernardes, presented 21 films, made by artists from 19 countries and shown between 2021 and 2024 in the first four editions of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival.
Julie Dind:
Dancing hors sujet: On butoh and autism
(Julie Valentine Dind, 2024, Brown University)
article published in
Choreographic Practices – Volume 15 Number 1 – Issue Differing Bodyminds: Cripping Choreography, June 2024, p. 89-112, (published online September 2024)
Julie Dind & Rolf Gerstlauer:
‘Problem’ bodies/’Problem’ Land:
An a(u/r)tistic response to the climate crisis
joint online paper presentation at the
International Federation for Theatre Research
Theatres and Performances of Tragedy
The IFTR 2024 conference is organized by the University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, Philippines – July 15-19 2024
Rolf Gerstlauer:
IV IEFF – Award Session
member of the festival jury
Eco-Drama, Eco-Animation, Eco-Documentary & Ecopoet[h]ics Awards – including online screening of the awarded films & jury greetings – at the IV International Ecoperformance Film Festival – June 30th 2024
Weird’s Tale; There Will Come Soft Rains
Julie Dind, Rolf Gerstlauer, Inga Chinilina (2024, 50’38”)
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 5:30pm – Fishman Studio – The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts – Brown University, Providence/RI
Premier of a live multimedia ecoperformance by Julie Dind (dance), Rolf Gerstlauer (scenography & video-paintings) and Inga Chinilina (music & soundscape), with media contributions from Rhode Islanders and students of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
International Ecoperformance Film Festival:
Rhode Island Edition – June 3-7 2024
FILM | MULTIMEDIA | PERFORMANCE | PANEL
An IGNITE Series Campus Project at Brown Arts curated by Julie Dind, Inga Chinilina and Rolf Gerstlauer; in collaboration with Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek, founders and organizers of the INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILM-FESTIVAL, Saō Paulo, Brazil
Julie Dind:
Undancing Neurotypicality: On Butoh and Autism
(Julie Dind, 2024, Brown University)
paper presentation at
NOFOD – Nordic Forum for Dance Research
The 16th international NOFOD conference – with the theme ‘The Dancer and the Dance: practices, education, communities, traditions, and histories’ – is organized by the Department of Performing Arts at Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway – April 23-26 2024
Julie Dind:
A(U/R)TISTIC ECOPOET(H)ICS: A Whirlwind
(Julie Dind, 2023, Brown University)
article published in
Art on Stage Journal, Revista Arte da Cena, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Ecoperformance and Ecopolitics of the Scene, Ecoperformance e Ecopolíticas da Cena, p. 280–297, December 2023
Julie Dind:
Silencer: Carving a Space for an Autistic Otherwise
(Julie Dind, 2023, Brown University)
paper presentation at the
American Society For Theatre Research
Disability Performance Cultures
The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) 2023 conference in Providence, Rhode Island/USA – November 9-12 2023
Julie Dind:
Voodling: Image is a(n Autistic) Verb
(Julie Dind, 2023, Brown University)
online paper presentation at
Performance Studies International
The 28th Performance Studies international conference – ‘Uhambo Luyazilawula: Embodied Wandering Practices’ – organized in partnership with the Wits School of Arts, Theatre & Performance and Drama for Life departments, Johannesburg, South Africa – August 2-5 2023
Julie Dind:
When “Telling” Is Not How We Story:
On Autistic Voodling
online paper presentation at the
International Federation for Theatre Research
Myths, Myth Making and Performance
The IFTR 2023 conference is hosted by the School of Performing Arts (SPA), University of Ghana, Legon-Accra – July 24-28 2023
Weird From Iceland, Quo Vadis Nomen Nescio
Julie Dind, Rolf Gerstlauer, Inga Chinilina (2023, 11’35”)
The work marks the start of a series of danced A(u/r)tistic Ecoperformances on Film made in remembrance of Guðríður víðförla Þorbjarnardóttir, an Icelandic voyager known from the Vinland sagas. Waywardness and yearning, migration and colonisation, as well as the quest for redemption, are in this film a(u/r)tistically encountered and show in real time a crip-time-take of multiple and synchronised views on one and the same happening. A visual manifestation of environment and body being inseparable dimensions of performative creation.
Julie Dind:
When (my) Incapacity Comes Dancing:
On Butoh and Autism
paper presentation at
The Dance Studies Association (DSA)
Paper presented as part of the Research HUB ‘Co-Imagining Cross-Cultural and Anti-Colonial Research: Looking for Radical Pedagogies and Artistic Micro-activisms’ at the Dance Studies Association (DSA) annual conference on ‘Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age’ in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – October 13-16 2022
Julie Dind & Rolf Gerstlauer:
‘Weird Drawn At Land’ & ‘Drawing NN’:
A Reflection On Autistic Choreography and the Land
film-screening & joint paper presentation at
NOFOD – Nordic Forum for Dance Research
Screening of the film Weird Drawn At Land (19’52”) and a joint-paper presentation at the 15th NOFOD conference ‘Moving, relating, commanding: Choreographies for bodies, identities and ecologies’ hosted by The Danish National School of Performing Arts, and supported by the Nordic Culture Fund, the Nordic Culture Point’s Culture and Art Programme, and Letterstedtska föreningen. DDSKS, Copenhagen, Denmark – July 5-8 2022
Julie Dind:
In and On Autistic Terms:
Towards an Autistic Theory of Gesture
paper presentation at the
International Federation for Theatre Research
The IFTR 2022 world congress is organized by the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland – June 20-24 2022
Weird Works The Bridge
Julie Dind & Rolf Gerstlauer (2022, 26’38”)
In WEIRD WORKS THE BRIDGE, a filmic para/pataphrasing of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), NN performs a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge of New York City. We are invited to both hear and see the filmmaker processing his memories of the performance – what it connects to – on the timeline of a larger set of events. The film explores our (in)capacity to create object relations, questions our thirst for pictures, lists, numbers, …and mourns the loss of fellow beings. WEIRD WORKS THE BRIDGE is the sequel to WEIRD DRAWN AT LAND.
Cenotaph For Weird’s Well And T[h]ree Missing Bodies
(Rolf Gerstlauer & Julie Dind, 2022)
essay published in book
Ecoperformance – Volume I, edited by Wolfgang Pannek, São Paulo: Transcultura, p. 105-111, 2021 (online published in 2022)
Weird Drawn At Land
Julie Dind & Rolf Gerstlauer (2020, silent, 19’52”)
WEIRD DRAWN AT LAND is the story of how the present deals with the past and worries about the future. Julie Dind is NN; Nomen Nescio, No Name …or just Not Neurotypical. NN has always been WEIRD. Known as Urðr, wyrd or weird, she’s the past. With her are her sisters Verðandi and Skuld; the present and that which yet has to become. The three Norns are in Norse Mythology the fate makers that sway humans’ destiny. How the present reads the past influences the future. WEIRD DRAWN AT LAND is a work in progress filmed on the Lista Peninsula in Southern Norway.
Cenotaph For Weird’s Well And T[h]ree Missing Bodies
Short-film (7’3”) and paper presentation at
Research-Creation Practices In Urgent Times
organized by the Centre For Imaginative Ethnography (CIE) Symposium and Graduate Program In Theatre & Performance Studies Conference, York University / Toronto – March 26 + 27 2021
Weird Drawn At Land
Work in progress (19’52” – silent)
selected for the
1st INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
organized by Taanteatro Companhia (São Paulo/Brazil) in cooperation with the Center for Studies on Methodologies for Research in Arts of the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) – March 16th to 18th 2021
Weird Drawn At Land
Work in progress (10’01”)
screened at
writing is live ; scratch night: open mic sunday feb 7 ’21
a wknd of new audio thtr organized by brown university mfa playwright in collaboration w the brown/trinity mfa program in acting and directing
Julie Dind:
En mettre sa main à couper.
Autour des photographies de David Nebreda
French translation of “At the Hands of a Split Finger: Delving into David Nebredas’s work” (Julie Dind, 2019, Brown University / Body Politics)
paper presented at
Débords – du cinéma; séminaire du Collège international de philosophie organized by Laura Odello and Peter Szendy – Friday January 15th 2021
Drawing Work On Stage :
Cenotaphs for Missing Bodies – Artefacts + Affordance
Multimedia installation (22’07”)
displayed at
WORKS+WORDS 2019, 2nd Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen / Denmark – November 28th 2019 to January 19th 2020
Julie Dind:
Beyond homo performans: Expanding the subject of Performance Studies
(Julie Dind, 2019, Brown University / Body Politics)
paper presented at
The third Biennial PARSE Research Conference (13/14/15 November 2019) at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation within the arts, humanities and social sciences of the category Human from the multiple perspectives of what it excludes and overlooks
Julie Dind:
“When I begin to wish I were crippled”: Exploring ideas and images of disability in Hijikata Tatsumi’s work
(Julie Dind, 2019, Brown University / Body Politics)
paper presented at
Butoh Next: A Symposium to Celebrate and Expand Upon The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance October 31 – November 3/2019 New York, NY/U.S.A – The Segal Theater, Graduate Center, CUNY, and Japan Society
Julie Dind:
On Burnouts and the University That Must Blaze
(Julie Dind, 2019, Brown University)
paper published in
Neurodiversity: Science, Politics, Culture – Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University, January 31st 2019
Rolf Gerstlauer:
Nedtegnet Tilnærming av og til et VERK. Foldet Dokument. # Tor Ulven # 37+1 foldete ark, signert og bundet, tom sumi flaske, brukt kalligrafi fjær; alt lagt i en papirpose for epler og overlevert Theodor Barth / KHiO 25.9.2017 19:29. Straffeskrift.
(Rolf Gerstlauer, 2018, AHO / Body & Space Morphologies)
published in
FormAkademisk. Tema: Tegning FormAkademisk – Volume 11, No 3 DOI: 10.7577/formakademisk.2945. The topic of this special issue of FormAkademisk is drawing.
Drawing Work On Stage :
A Neurodiverse Acting Towards A Primal Body And Space Morphology
Multimedia installation (20’14” and 44’39” – both looped)
displayed at
WORKS+WORDS 2017, 1st Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen / Denmark – March 23rd to May 5th 2017
November 2024
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