Korina Kordovaflesh. stick. stone II (2025) 2023
installation/ expanded choreography
flesh. stick. stone II is an invitation into documentation, traces and resonance of
alliances between humans and the ground as practices of transformation and
belonging. It brings together elements from a series of 3 installations exhibited in
Stockholm in 2023.
Korina Kordova is an artist working within the confluences of choreography,
dance, and performance.
Thanks to The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, På Sergels torg, Lusthuset in Spökparken, Galleri ID:I, Amalia Kasakove and Malcolm Jacobson.
These practices were developed on different political grounds, such as the Brazilian Amazon, the Netherlands, and a quarry in the south of Stockholm. The installation may be approached as a surface where material and incorporeal things make different geographies touch.
flesh. stick. stone II brings together elements from choreographic anarchiving: lithic – a series of 3 works exhibited in Stockholm in 2023, which unfolded from an artistic research project situated at the crossroad between choreography, feminist new materialisms, and anthropology beyond the human.
Korina Kordova (she/her) is a Stockholm-based artist working within the confluences of choreography, dance and performance. Her practice meets the public as live choreographic works, dance performances, scores in both written and aural forms, installations, publications, and workshops. Her work has been presented in performing arts venues, festivals, museums and galleries in Europe and South America. She’s interested in decolonial aesthetics, mythmaking and magic, and her practice resonates with feminist new materialisms and anthropology beyond the human. As a dancer/performer, she has worked with dance companies, independent choreographers and directors in Europe and the Americas for the last twenty years. She trained as a dancer in her native São Paulo (BR) and in the Netherlands, and earned a Masters in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). In 2021 she undertook an internship in the Master in Choreography Program at Stockholm University of the Arts, and in 2023 she completed the Postmaster “Materialities; energies” at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (SE)