perpetual mvmt<>snd

Emily Sweeney is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in southern Vermont. She has collaborated w/ sound/ visual artist William Bilwa Costa as perpetual mvmt<>snd since 2006. Together, they have shown work in Philadelphia, New York, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico, Turku (Finland), Rome, Vermont, and London. In 2009, they participated in PRISMA Forum-Mexico, collaborating w/ international transmedia artists as a part of the laboratory “Who’s Afraid of the In-Between?” As a dancer, Emily has worked w/ the Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, Brigitta Herrmann/AUSDRUCKSTANZ, and Austrian dance artist Mariella Greil. Emily’s own work explores the body’s most basic elements and processes—breath, skin sensation, muscle contraction—and how they influence movement generation. She also designs improvised scores using neurobiology’s current understandings of perception, subjectivity, and memory, encouraging artists to enter one another’s material and find new processes for collaboration. Collaboration w/ other dancers, musicians, and artists of all types and use of improvisation are central to her practice. Emily is also a dedicated yoga practitioner and Registered Yoga Teacher having trained at the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Vrindavan, India. view CV—emily sweeney

William Bilwa Costa is a sound and visual artist. He has worked with movement artist Emily Sweeney as perpetual mvmt<>snd since 2006. Together, they have shown work in Philadelphia, New York, Berlin, Vienna, Turku (Finland), Rome, and London. In 2009, they participated in PRISMA Forum-Mexico, collaborating with many international trans-media artists as a part of the laboratory “Who’s Afraid of the In-Between?” Bilwa currently works internationally, generating research/ lab/ performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary explorations. Collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and designers and use of improvisation are central to his practice. He is comfortable in both the performing and visual arts contexts, creating sound and design for performance and installations. His electronic music and sound art often involve the abstraction of live-feed source material such as dancers’ breath and body sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonic relics through which he pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested in sensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documents those acts of decipherment. He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory environment rich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound. view CV—william/ bilwa/ costa

perpetual mvmt<>snd is driven by exploration and experimentation. All of our works are process-oriented and stem from queries that emerge from the practices of our collaborating video, movement, visual, and sound artists. We have been fortunate to count among our collaborators: Michael McDermott (Mikronesia), Mariella Greil, Werner Moebius, Gene Coleman, J. Milo Taylor, Audrey Chen, Maria Nurmela, Amelia McQueen, Johanna Porola, Rebecca Patek, Allison Lorenzen, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Alban Bailly, Daniele Strawmyre, Helena Espvall, Blaine Siegel, Brigitta Herrmann, Christina Zani, Jil Stifel, Jeb Lewis, Sean Mattio, John Phillips, Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur (Red Heart the Ticker), Pandar (Gemini Wolf), Bianka Brunson (Lillie Ruth Bussey), Amanda Louise Lewis, Loren Groenendaal, Martha Savery, William Fields, Rick Henderson, and Florian Tuerke.