For the a.pass end presentations Chloe made a publication The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable/ Language as Prosthesis with UhBooks; you can read a short excerpt in the window to the left.
You can order a copy of the publication here.
Chloe Chignell works across choreography and publication taking the body as the central problem, question and location of the research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up.
The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable / Language as Prosthesis
We begin with the image of an idea in ruin. A small field of assumptions disassembled. A question no longer in need of its mark. A thought not sure where it began. It starts from the body and language. The debris of these three words, crumbling already at and, did not break apart but congealed the separations once made. We start from a research (project) undone and just beginning.
Published by: uh books
Typesetting and design: Will Holder
Produced by: A.pass
Thanks to: Rachel Levitsky, Lilia Mestre, Stefan Goovart, Will Holder, Sven Dehens ,Ann-Chritin Kongsness (Koreografi Journal) and Gry Tingskog. Without your generous conversations and meticulous editing this publication would not have been possible.
An earlier version of Language as Prosthesis was comissioned and published online by Dancehouse Diary and The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable came out of a comission from Koreografi Journal to be published in 2021.
Chloe Chignell (Australia) is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels working across text, choreography and publishing. In 2019 she opened rile* a bookshop and project space for practices moving between publication and performance, with Sven Dehens. Her most recent work Poems and Other Emergencies premiered at Batard Festival Brussels 2020, and was supported by WorkspaceBrussels, BUDA Kortrijk, Lucy Geurin Inc and La Balsamine. She graduated from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (Brussels, 2018), She has a Bachelor in Dance from Victorian College of the Arts, (Melbourne, 2013) and studied a writing and residency program at DOCH (Stockholm, 2017). As a choreographer Chloe has been commissioned by the Keir Choreographic Award for the creation of Deep Shine (Melbourne) touring to Japan for The Awaji Art Festival. She presented a short work forever in both directions for the Venice Biennale’s Biennale of Dance (2017). As a dancer Chloe has worked for Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Anna Gaiotti, Gry Tingskog, Atlanta Eke, Ellen Söderhult, Phoebe Berglund and James Bachelor performing in Australia and across Europe. Chloe is co-editor of This Container magazine, currently in its 8th edition based between Stockholm, Brussels and Melbourne. Her writing has been published by This Container, Koreografi, Indigo Dance Magazine (PAF) and Realtime (Australia). She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm), PraxisFestivalen (Oslo), PAF (France) Scene:Bluss (Norway). She is co-initiator of PO$$E a dance and reading group .
www.chloechignell.com / www.rile.space / www.thiscontainer.com