Verena Vuori
Education
Lincoln University, UK: MA Fine Art (Jan-Sept 2016)
Subjects: studio practice, art practice as research, academic research and writing
Basis voor de Aktuele Kunst, Utrecht: Learning Place (Dec 2015-April 2016)
Subjects: art as politics, the legacy of modernity and how to challenge it through creative means, practical involvement with the New World Summit (Jonas Staal) and Here We Are Academy (learning platform created by a group of undocumented humans 'Wij Zijn Hier').
Yoga Moves, Utrecht: 200hrs Vinyasa yoga teacher training (July-December 2015)
Subjects: yoga asana, philosophy, breath and meditation techniques, anatomy
Lincoln University, UK: MFA Choreographing Live Art (2014-2015; completed 90 ECTS, programme was discontinued)
Subjects: performance studies, transgressive live art, somatic approaches to research, the strategies and aesthetics of (gender) failure within performance practice, research strategies
Falmouth University, UK: BA Choreography with Visual Practices (2009-2011)
Subjects: dance (contemporary technique, improvisation, somatics) and digital media, cross-disciplinary practice, experiential anatomy
Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, Denmark (2008–2009)
6 month foundation course in contemporary dance
Hogeschool Zuyd, Heerlen, Netherlands: Cert.HE dance therapy (2007- 2008)
Subjects: psychology, interpersonal skills, using dance to counter/balance various physical and mental health issues
ISLO, Joensuu, Finland: foundation course creative dance teaching (2006-2007)
Subjects: devising curriculum and dance delivery to community groups, experimental anatomy
University College Utrecht, Netherlands: Cert. HE Social Science (1999-2000)
Subjects: law, social science, psychology
Work
Performance and Devising
2016
Workshop for Pigs and People: interactive experience, Pink Pigs Farm, Scunthorpe, UK
Bare Bones: interactive experience, Lincoln University, UK
Egalite by Elena Kovylina, Zomerexpo, Amsterdam
Movement experiment at Contingency/Winter School of Discontent, Gallery West, Den Haag
2015
Body of Concern: interactive performance with 1800hrs collective (http://18hundredhours.moonfruit.com)
at Made in Roath, Cardiff, UK
Untitled: one on one solo performance at Slager Museum as part of Museum Nacht Den Bosch, Netherlands
Two Flashers, multi media performance; collaboration with Josh alan Trask,
1800hrsMADE, Cardiff, UK
Transient Space, collaboration with Julia Sykala. Movement/video performance
based on negotiating personal space in the London tube system, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, UK
2014
Crap: collaboration with Lauren Barri Holstein (http://www.thefamousomg.com), Gnarl Fest,
Lincoln, UK
Nothing at the end of the line..maybe a little breathing: collaboration with Sarah Hermanutz
and Emily Zuckerman; areal rope art and motion tracking technology, Ponderosa, Berlin, Germany
Vedenpinnan: movement/video/photography installation, Fiskars, Finland
2013
Bodies in Urban Spaces by Willi Dorner (www.ciewdorner.at), exploring the body in
relation to urban architecture, Hastings, UK
Artefact 2 by Marie Gabrielle Rotie (www.rotieproductions.com), Butoh based exploration of the body as material, Penryn, UK
Passing Through: collaborative 16 hour performance at Truro train station, Truro, UK
Homo Sapiens/H2O: solo exploring my physical relationship to soil and water, AIR pressure,
event on climate change, Penryn, UK
2012
Untitled: physical actions at Pendennis Point, collaboration with Zierle and Carter (www.zierlecarterliveart.com), Falmouth UK
Untitled: solo at Lived Art Festival, Falmouth, UK
2011
Making it Home: collaboration with Rosalyn Maynard. Performance addressing climate
change and peak oil. Dartmoor National Park, UK
1998-1999
Wildfire (performer, facilitator)
community theatre project raising awareness about social inequality, Central States, USA
Exhibitions
2017
More alike than we might think: Interactive video, audio and text installation, House of Questions, Newlyn Gallery, UK
2016
Touched by pigs and people circle: interactive sculpture and video installation, Ampersand, Lincoln, UK
2015
Of Grass: film collaboration with Catrin Clarke, Cardiff m.a.d.e, UK
Two Flashers: film and photo exhibition, collaboration with Josh Alan Trask, Cardiff m.a.d.e, UK
2014
Stone Skin: short film, Made in Roath festival, Cardiff, UK
2012
Untitled: installation in cleaning cabinet, Lived Art Festival, Falmouth, UK
Residencies
2016
Here We Are Academy, Basis voor de Aktuele Kunst and Wij Zijn Hier, Utrecht/Amsterdam, Netherlands
Winter School of Discontent, Gallery West, Den Haag, Netherlands
2015
Light and Shadow Creatures: photo project, www.umira.net
Kunsthal Boschveld, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Wonderlust: walking residency along Cornish Coastal Path, UK (www.wonderlustproject.org)
2014
Converge, Ponderosa, Germany
The Sky is Falling and the Money is all gone with Lucky Pierre, research and performance collective based in Chicago, organised by the Live art Development Agency, UK
http://www.luckypierre.org/current/the-sky-is-falling-the-moneys-all-gone.html
Summercamp, National Theatre Wales, UK
Onoma, Fiskars, Finland
BIDE, Barcelona, Spain
Teaching and organising
2016
The Seven Valleys (facilitator): movement and drawing workshop for adults, Conferentieoord de Poort, Groesbeek
Nexus (organiser): a week long residency for 20 trained and untrained artists at Numphra Downs, Cornwall UK
Interactive mural for all ages, x-24 Festival, Lincoln, UK
2015
The Tree that survived the Winter (facilitator): drawing and movement workshop for adults, Conferentieoord de Poort, Groesbeek
Vinyasa yoga classes, Wolfaert Projectspaces, Rotterdam
2014
Soil Culture Forum (http://ccanw.co.uk/soil-culture-forum.htm), Falmouth, UK • Part of programming team (2013-14)
• Daily yoga workshops for beginners
Daylight Festival, St Day, Cornwall • Facilitation of community lantern making, shadow puppets and animation workshops
2011-2013
Green Moves (fundraising, organising and promoting projects and teacher), Cornwall, UK: (2011-2013)
• Workshops with Elderly
• Sustainable education through creativity (http://wearegreenmoves.wordpress.com)
• Holiday workshops for children at Performance Centre, Penryn
• Primary school projects
Eden Project, educational charity for sustainable living, St Austell, UK (2012 - 2013) • Creative facilitator at Site Wide Live Programme
Assistant teacher in site specific choreography with Lois Taylor (2013)
• at Falmouth University
Inclusive Theaterwerkplaats de Rode Hoed, Netherlands (2012)
• Creative movement coach for production ‘het Sneeuw Meisje’
Assistant teacher in somatic bodywork/writing/drawing with Rosalyn Maynard (2011-2013)
• at Falmouth University and workshops in Devon
2007-2010
Weekly creative dance classes
• Interlink Society, Teesside University, UK
• Landgoed Terworm, Heerlen, Netherlands (outdoor classes)
• Dansatelier Heerlen, Netherlands (adults)
• Refugee Centre Kontiolahti, Finland (children)
• Adults with visual Impairment, Joensuu, Finland
2000-2001
Department for the promotion of the Arts, European Baha'i Youth Council
• Part of programming and organising team for three conferences (in Czech republic, France and Denmark) for street theatre groups raising awareness about social inequality
• Facilitated workshops about interpersonal relationships for touring groups