ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist working with performance, dance, video and text, Kim Miller’s work is a form of social practice she calls social choreography. Her work is a place to rehearse – practicing relations and possibilities. Social choreography asks how we can organize and move with and through relations to bodies in space. She uses dance as both a subject and a discipline, to collapse and reorganize our relationship to space and bodies. Kim’s movement scores think and feel. Her central question of what can social choreography do? points to the hope that social choreography can do something liberatory. The research is rooted in a liberatory practice.
This freedom practice is not a freedom from limits, or a license to do whatever one wants. This freedom does not represent an escape from genre, gender, race, class, or abilities – instead, this is a freedom and improvisational maneuver to navigate an ever-shifting landscape of constraints – both within a higher education context and outside. She is working with freedom as a practice – moving, sliding, soft, and emerging. In addition to her performance practice, Miller runs a movement-theatre group, Social Choreography. She is the co-founder of Mazzzagine Project, an artist-based initiative for new works and new collaborations.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kim Miller is a performer and choreographer, practicing relations and possibilities, who has performed and shown work at Sculpture Milwaukee; El Sindicato Centro Cultural Comunitario, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Anthology Film Archive, New York; The Suburban, Oak Park; Green Gallery, Milwaukee; MOMA, New York City; MASS MoCA, North Adams; and Art in General, New York City. Miller has received such awards as the New York Public Library Fellowship in the Dance Division, The Open Fund, Ruth Arts Nohl Alumni Award, an ATLAS Choreographer-in-Residence at ImpulsTanz, Brico Forward Fund, the Rosa Parks Award from the Global Center for Advanced Studies, the Suitcase Grant, the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Artist-in-Residence at Compeung, Doi Saket, Thailand, and the Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship. She is a Professor in the Fine Art + New Studio Practice Program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
© Kim Miller