Docudancing Griefscapes

Docudancing Griefscapes is a presentation of a contextual approach to choreography and traumatic grieving. In it I introduce the concepts of docudancing and griefscapes which emerged through my doctoral artistic research at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Roar 2015). See: http://www.uniarts.fi/en/newsroom/väitös-docudancing-griefscapes ). Through sharing how I approached and attempted to embody the aftermath of the Bosnian War as a griefscape, I want to highlight the challenges involved in engaging with traumatic and documentary material in contextually based art projects. Concerns I connect to Hal Foster’s discussion of the artist as an ethnographer in his Return of the Real (Foster 1996).