Bianca Hisse (b.1994) is a Brazilian artist based in Oslo. Her artistic practice investigates the way places have been choreographed by social and political issues, employing performance as a tool for imagination and resistance. Blurring the boundaries between visual arts and dance, her research delves into how diaspora histories and macro-movements across geographical or imagined borders are entangled.
The processes guiding her research are often not individual, but are rather open propositions for groups or communities as active participants in shaping the work. Her work examines societal structures as choreographic systems that dictate and regulate bodies through land demarcations, territorial struggles and policies over who owns the right to move, cross and navigate the world. By developing and reinventing community-based performative strategies, her work sheds light on how the body can move against inflexible and oppressive systems, envisioning choreographies of collective freedom.
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