REBECCA DOUGLASS

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WRITTEN WORK ︎︎︎

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Ongoing
DRIFT MATTER: WALKING AS ATTENDING TO AN ANARCHIVE OF PLACE

An artistic research project into the anarchival potential of walking as artistic research practice. Currently conducted as part of an RMa in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam ︎︎︎

Ongoing
IT’S MY PRACTICE

This webpage is the archive of a collaborative research project conducted by Rebecca Douglass and Giulia Morlando alongside Artistic Research students. The format works best on a desktop computer rather than a mobile device ︎︎︎

CREATION & PERFORMANCE

2023
DIGITAL PERMACULTURE

Devision and creation of an immersive projection work during a month long residency at Moskosel Creative Lab, Sweden.

2023
THE OPPOSITE OF A BLACK HOLE: A PARTICIPATORY SCREENDANCE LAB

Research lab exploring digital interventions in performance.

2022 - 2023
THE OPPOSITE OF A BLACK HOLE

Commissioned Screendance production supported by Arts Council England and Fieldworks Dance London.

2022
SHALLOW WATER WAVES

Performance at Resolutions Festival, The Place, London. Choreography by Katie Serridge.

2021
TALKING TO THE WALLS

Movement direction and performance in a music video for Lucy Mair - a South East London based singer/musician.

2020
GOINGGHOST

An interactive website performance created as part of the 2020 LCDS online graduation show ‘CYBER RATS despite it all’. Concept and creative direction from Leah Marojevic.

2020
TIGHT

Durational installation and performance at The Place, London. Combining tapestry making with film, embroidery, text and construction.

2019
NOWHERE NEAR LAND

Movement Director and Choreographer in Screendance production made in collaboration with Isaac Bebbington and Ayano Kamiyama.

2018
ON AND ON

Performance in a work by Stephanie Hanjiiska made for stage and screen.

CURATION & PRODUCTION

August 2024
THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM X FRIENDS OF NUNHEAD CEMETERY: CURATORIAL PROGRAM

Admin, Communications and Program Assistant for a curatorial program that culminated in a series of 6 solo exhibitions at Nunhead Cemetery Chapel, each delving into themes of feminism, community, ecology and environmentalism.

April 2023
DANCING TOGETHER FESTIVAL

Co-producer alongside Synne Lundesgaard for this community driven and family friendly festival celebrating African diasporic dance and the local histories of South East London.

MAY 2022
VERTICAL TERRAIN

Assistant Producer alongside Synne Lundesgaard in an interdisciplinary live arts event at Ugly Duck, London. Eight artists commissioned to create new works for an evening long public showcase.

APRIL - MAY 2021
ERMS? EXTRAVAGANZA

Co-Producer alongside Tasha Hess-Neustadt - a two day online Zoom festival platforming artists that had created live art work throughout lockdown from various disciplines.

MARCH 2020
COME/CLICK TO SEE

Lead Curator and Producer of an interdsciplinary evening of art, dance, film, poetry and music at Muxima, a micro-venue for the arts in East London. Supported by Leila McMillan.

MARCH 2020
BLEEDING FAERIES ALL OVER THE PLACE

A commissioned event from the London Contemporary Dance School Feminist Society - Zine Launch and Roundtable with female identifying dance artists.

REBECCA DOUGLASS

CREDIT: Gaby Conn
@GABYCONNPHOTOS

CREDIT: Gaby Conn
@GABYCONNPHOTOS

Rebecca Douglass is an Artistic Researcher currently completing the Art and Performance Research Masters at the University of Amsterdam, where she is studying the intersection between walking, place and anarchival practices.

She works across disciplines of text, performance and new-media art, arriving at these through her background in Contemporary dance. She received a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree from the London Contemporary Dance School, and further deepened her practical experience on the Architetture di Corpi HUMUS Professional Programme, Bologna.

Her foray into the intersection between dance and digital art is explored in ‘The Opposite of a Black Hole’ (2022) - for which she received Arts Council Funding - and ‘Digital Permaculture’ (2023) - created in residency in remote Northern Sweden - both collaborations with Berlin based artist Tasha Hess-Neustadt. She has produced several multidisciplinary art events including ‘Dancing Together Festival’ (2023), ‘VERTICAL TERRAIN’ (2022) and ‘erms? extravaganza’ (2021).

Alongside her personal freelance portfolio, she carries out frequent work for Springback Magazine, where she is a performance journalist and critic. She is the Program Manager at The Feminist Lecture Program, an online Gender Studies lecture program. She is nuturing her proficiency in organisation, management and administrations for cultural institutions.