Masterclass with Courtney May Robertson

Rooted in Courtney May Robertson’s performance HUNTER, this masterclass explores the porous boundary between the living body and non-living materials. In HUNTER/b> Robertson appears alongside a life-sized doll replica of herself. Drawing from the research that underpins this work, participants are invited to enter embodied states that soften the divide between human and object. We’ll consider how memory, environment and cultural narratives inform our interactions with physical matter, and how building empathy toward ‘non-living’ forms can emerge through rituals of contact. Participants will co-create imaginative landscapes and new relational possibilities, questioning what it means to be animate, inanimate, human, or ‘other.’