An art performance by Emma Hoette on a boat close to the Tuna Glacier in Tempelfjorden.
Emma is unrawelling a knitted neck in front of the glacier.
Duration: 10 minutes

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Biography:

Born in 1986, in Australia, Hoette has lived and worked in Amsterdam and in NYC for the past 10 years.
Hoette can best be described as a captivating storyteller: an artist that uses her body, clothing and film to weave narratives exploring the issues of our time in a way that will ignite and foster conversations.
Working at the intersection of design and performance, Hoette thoughtfully investigates objects and space. She researches and mobilizes everyday acts and materials, giving them agency by transforming them into striking choreographic projects.
Through these new perspectives on the everyday, her work challenges established assumptions of use and exchange, value of materials and experiences, and the frictional borders between objects, dress and bodies.
Her practice is structured by specific and disciplined routines and rituals of collecting, taking apart, reinterpreting and re-configuring movement, objects and images. This approach results in choreographies and performances that explore social interactions with/experiences of others and observations of the environment. She works to create spaces of physical sensation where thoughts, emotions, experiences and questions arise that inform and re-invent ways of seeing and being.
Hoette’s work has been shown in a range of contexts spanning performing arts venues, festivals and galleries across the US and Europe. She holds a BFA in Integrated Design (combining fashion, choreography and performance) from Parsons The New School for Design, NYC and has recently been selected for the MFA in Creative Practice at Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music in association with Siobhan Davies Dance, London starting September 2017.

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