SILVIA BATTISTA
I am a multidisciplinary artist, teacher and writer working with drawing, voice, writing, storytelling and installation, associate professor at Liverpool Hope University, former co-convenor of the international working group Performance, Religion and Spirituality and one of the founding members of the art collective MM Material Matters.
I am interested in the sacred as a space for knowledge and discovery, in myths, mythopoiesis and non linear narratives, and on creative processes that operate as spiritual practices to generate each time different perceptions and identities. This touches on ecological and political discourses related to how reality is narrated and consequently constructed and who is included or excluded from the realm of the visible.
Central to my research is the act of drawing as a slow and uncharted practice of repetition from which archetypes and invented-myths emerge and from which enchanted spatial and cerimonial experiences are devised and performed. I am a weaver of metaphorical fabrics, mythopoeia, and speculative fictions aimed to re-imagine cultural heritage and histories, the positionality of the human in the 21st century, and the possibility of envisioning liberation from extractive and oppressive practices.
My practice-research offers a feminine lens through which to visualise '"he not possible yet" and involve audiences in feeling the promises of different worlds.
I have presented my work internationally – Europe, UK, USA, India, China, South Africa – from pubs and music venues to galleries, festivals, museums, and universities and my writing has been published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect and Performance Research Books - for details click the link below.
