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Teoma leads a double life as an artist and scholar, slipping between artistic and academic contexts in the UK, Germany, and Canada. Her research is likewise slippery, moving from dance and choreography into the digital and medical humanities, to probe understandings of bodies and movement across disciplines.
As a choreographer and media artist, each hybrid performance-installation that she creates is a microcosm: a site to interrogate the ongoing mediation of bodies and identities in techno-cultures. Through the appropriation of surveillance and biomedical technologies, her artistic work engages with the computational and conceptual machinery of representation. Adopting a wide range of formats, including live, livestream, durational, and 1-1 performance, Naccarato’s work has been presented in theatres, galleries, and film festivals internationally. Recent projects include: III: Once Returned (2022-2023), a 72-hour durational performance live-streamed around-the-clock from an array of 9 surveillance cameras; Im/mediations: 9x9x9 (2022-2023), a series of 9 portraits from 9 angles in extreme closeup, illuminating movement-within-stillness; and Im/mediations: REMAINS (2021-2022), a livestream/dance-film set within the virtual architecture of multiple cameras gazing down at the performer from above.
As a dance scholar, Naccarato engages with feminist, new materialist, and process philosophies to interrogate the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of movement analysis and representation across disciplines. Recent publications are featured in peer-reviewed journals such as Dance and Somatic Practices, Performance Research, Leonardo, Tempo, and Performance Philosophy. Presently, Teoma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) where she is developing a new book, and continues to present artistic work in galleries and festivals internationally.
In tandem with her artistic and scholarly research, Naccarato facilitates platforms for generative exchange regarding systemic inequality in research methodologies and pedagogies. From 2021-2022, she co-led a virtual reading and discussion group on race, colonialism, and diaspora in practices at the intersection of dance and computing. In this group, as in her own research, the emphasis is on transversal and diffractive readings between diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Since 2018, Naccarato has co-run the Provocations Project, launching open calls for provocations and curating dialogues concerning inscribed bias and (in)visibility in cross-disciplinary and collaborative research.
In addition to receiving fully funded fellowships for her MFA and PhD, her work has been supported through artist grants in Canada and Germany, as well as full-time residencies at renowned centers such as the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM, Paris), CLOUD/DansLAb (The Hague), Lake Studios (Berlin), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT, UC Berkeley), and The Djerassi Resident Artist Program (San Francisco).
Naccarato has held posts at numerous universities in Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe, leading undergraduate and graduate level courses in choreography, contemporary dance, multimedia performance, videodance, and performance philosophy. She received her BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University (2004), an MFA in Dance from the Ohio State University (2011), and a PhD from the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University (2019).
Research Interests
dance, performance art, duratioinaal performance, video installation, collaboration, performance philosophy, transversality
Education/Academic qualification
PhD Dance, Doctorate, Coventry University
Award Date: 31 May 2019
MFA Dance, The Ohio State University
Award Date: 30 Jun 2011
BFA Contemporary Dance, Concordia University
Award Date: 31 May 2004
External positions
Visiting Professor, Dance, Sam Houston State University
Sept 2015 → Dec 2015
Visiting Professor, Dance, Concordia University
Jan 2014 → May 2014
Visiting Professor, Dance, Concordia University
Sept 2013 → Dec 2013
Visiting Professor, Dance, Florida State University
Jan 2012 → Apr 2012
Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University
1 Sept 2011 → 15 Dec 2011
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Projects
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Cutting together-apart (une greffe)
Naccarato, T. & MacCallum, J., 1 May 2020, In: Performance Research. 25, 5, p. 135-142 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collaboration as Differentiation: Rethinking interaction intra-actively
Naccarato, T. & MacCallum, J., 2019, In: Performance Philosophy Journal. 4, 2, p. 410-433 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Critical Appropriations of Biosensors in Artistic Practice
Naccarato, T. & MacCallum, J., Jun 2017, MOCO '17: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing. Niehaus, K. (ed.). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 3Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus) -
From representation to relationality: Bodies, biosensors and mediated environments
Naccarato, T. & MacCallum, J., 1 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices. 8, 1, p. 57-72 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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III: Once Returned
Naccarato, T., 2 Jun 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Performance
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The 6th International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference 2023
Teoma Naccarato (Speaker), John MacCallum (Speaker) & Jessica Rajko (Speaker)
14 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Art-Study-Action: Developing Methods of Opinion Formation with Cultural Organisations
Mel Jordan (Contributor), Carolina Rito (Organiser), Simon Ellis (Contributor), Anthony Luvera (Contributor), Scott Delahunta (Organiser), Jose Dias (Contributor), Ruth Gibson (Contributor), Petra Johnson (Contributor), Andrew Hewitt (Contributor), Teoma Naccarato (Contributor) & Kevin Walker (Contributor)
1 Jun 2023Activity: Other
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SloMoCo: Durational Conference on Movement and Computing 2021
Teoma Naccarato (Organising Committee), John MacCallum (Organising Committee) & Jessica Rajko (Speaker)
1 Mar 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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MUTOR Lecture Series – Dance, interaction, and virtuality in contemporary performance
Teoma Naccarato (Speaker)
9 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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MUTOR Lecture Series – Politics, Identity, and Representation in Multimedia
Teoma Naccarato (Speaker) & John MacCallum (Speaker)
30 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Thesis
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Re/contextualization: on the critical appropriation of technologies as artistic practice
Author: Naccarato, T., Sept 2019Supervisor: Ellis, S. (Supervisor), Whatley, S. (Supervisor) & Delahunta, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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