Monday, September 21, 2015 - 11:15
Ambra Gatto Bergamasco, a PhD student in NIRSA and a collaborator on the IRC-funded Geographical Turn (PI Prof. Gerry Kearns), has won an Artist in the Community Research and Development award from Create (the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts). The award will fund Ambra to work as a Butoh dance artist alongside the Anti Racism Network on a project called Questioning Racism that examines "internal and external forms of racism" and draws attention to the racism that is "generate[d] within us as humans (internal landscapes) and that which is performed in urban settings (external landscapes)." In exploring the settings of racism, the project asks: "Is racism really only a skin issue?"