Animate Loading
Organisation. AGNSW
Year: 2022
Animate Loading is a site-responsive, iterative choreographic work, which first took place on a rooftop carpark. It is a disability-led project with access-centred principles at its core; designed to enable the collaborating artists to create as freely and fully as possible. A dynamic group of performers draw on their diverse movement languages and embodied experiences. Informed by the architectural and social context, the performers activate the space; reconfiguring our interactions with place, architecture and each other. The work is an embodied call to action: to disrupt, resist and change our relationships within and around so-called public space.
Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary disabled/crip artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Her work often crosses traditional artform boundaries, and exists in online and offline spaces. She frequently straddles multiple roles across her projects; employing choreography, performance, film, sound design, immersive installation and audience activation to create works that interrogate entrenched systems, structures and ways of thinking; and advocate for social change. Her work embraces play and danger, risk and rest, lo-fi, DIY aesthetics and unconventional processes. It rejects convention, traditionalism and arbitrary formal notions of what art can be.
