I am a movement artist who works with expanded choreography as a medium.
As an artist, I aim to create vocabularies that entail a transdisciplinary language.
My practice relays on principles like collaboration, experimentation and translation.
My research revolves around the sensorial experience of space as a means to activate philosophical and epistemological knowledge.
In my artworks, I build ephemeral questions that unfold the physical relationship between the inner body and outer space. I play, invert, twist and stretch that relationship.
My artworks fall into diverse categories of art media like site-specific movement performances, choreographic DJ sets, installations, choreographic films and booklets.
My work resonates with thematics like the underpinning violence that endure the functioning of Western societies.
That theme often unfolds in my pieces through the visual juxtaposition of the vulnerable, ephemeral and malleable nature of the human body with the robust, lasting and rigid nature of architectural structures.
Invisible dances for everyday survivors. 2022 – Collective booklet - Invisible dances for everyday survivors is the result from collaboration between 4 artists with different backgrounds and practices, such as choreography, music composition and visual art. Throughout accessiblee scores, stories, illustartions and games, this booklet invites us to connect in surprising and unreasonable ways to ourselves, others, and the space around us.
Choreographic Translation is an emerging art gang and transdisciplinary collective. It is focused on the translation of choreographic and somatic means and concepts to other artistic and epistemological fields and disciplines. And it is driven by the translation of choreographic and somatic tools and ideas to non-expert audiences.
The collective is composed of five artists with different backgrounds, Johan Rijpma (animation artist), Fernanda González Morales (choreographer and writer), Alberto Granados (music composer), Şiva Canbazoğlu (dancer) and Marta Wörner (choreographer).
Choreographic Translations is a project currently directed by Marta Wörner. Nevertheless, the artistic decisions of each artwork in particular are collectively made and the final results are shaped by means of coping, pasting, stretching, twisting and translating.
Invisible Dances For Everyday Survivors - Booklet's instructions / Backcover
Invisible Dances For Everyday Survivors
Invisible dances for everyday survivors - Score page
Invisible Dances For Everyday Survivors
Earthrise. 2021 – Site-specific performance - Earthrise is a site-specific performance that flourished from the collaboration between the artists Marta Wörner and Gabriel Lester.
Earthrise unfolds as a physical misinterpretation of gravity. It is inspired by the tensional game between forces displayed by the architecture of the Electriciteitsfabriek.
Eigengrau. 2021-Ongoing – Performative installation (Collaboration) - Eigengrau is an immersive cinematic experience, a ritual in total darkness that solely uses light, haze, sound, and movement. A light cylinder, a reference to the magic circle, takes the audience through a narrative of various mental states. Inspired by phantasmagoria, the work creates a perceptual illusion, a temporary escape in a contemporary setting.
Team
Research, Concept,Light composition Zalán Szakács
Sound composition Sébastien Robert
Choreography Marta Wörner
Artistic advisor Martijn van Boven
Strata. 2020 – Performance - Strata is a physical reflection on the means, strengths and paradoxes of inhabiting a common delimited space with shared rules, a critical ode to unity. The piece is influenced by the study of the Schuman Declaration in 1950, the breeding ground for the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, Europe's first supranational Community.
Falling in. Notes on body, space and matter. 2019 – Site-specific performance - Falling in. Notes on body, space and matter is an interdisciplinary performance that takes place in between a mobile visual installation, two dancers, one hostess, and the audience.
It is a site-specific artwork in which the textures, architecture and soundscape are used to deconstruct our cognitive experience of the performative space and play with its boundaries.
The work emerged from the practice-led research 'Between control and uncertainty' (2017-2019)
