The Body as Data follows a group of people as they re-map the Kent Coast of England. Emerging from the summer’s Body as Data project workshops and walking events, this film captures local migrant and community participants as they draw their own borderlines across the Kent coast and create an ephemeral cartography of arrival. By highlighting the constructed nature of borders, the film presents an alternative, mobilised version of these boundaries, created by those whom the borders deny.
The 2024 Body as Data Project aimed to connect local communities and those who have experienced forced migration through creative dance practice, walking, and surveillance technologies to come together to mobilise the border of the Kent coast from Margate to Folkestone. Over the summer, we presented a series of community workshops and site specific walking events which explore how the ‘body-as-data’ can draw its own border by re-imagining the impact of drone technology and the power of walking practices.
This project involved 8 local artists, a small team of crew, and 50+ participants from the Napier Barracks, Glenwood House, local Folkestone residents, and Samphire Project attendees. For the film - we will set it up as an installation that people can visit anytime throughout the day or weekend with artefacts, writing & images from the project set up around the film. We have a small budget for venue hire (as this is part of an Arts Council funded project).
Dr Sidonie Carey-Green is a practitioner-researcher based in Folkestone with 10 years of experience in facilitation, filmmaking, and choreographic projects. She holds a PhD in dance from Royal Holloway University of London. Her PhD practice explored a methodology for performance with new technologies to become transformative rather than oppressive for othered bodies. Over her studies she developed a long-term collaboration with Tom Tegento to create a series of choreographic objects with Arts Council Funding ongoing. She works as a teacher, choreographer and film practitioner across Kent and Surrey, teaching performance and technique for youth companies, adults, and universities. Her credits include Channel 4’s Random Acts, Malta’s European Capital of Culture, Brighton Dance Film Festival, Womencinemakers Bienale, and official selections in festivals globally.
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