For the exhibition Your Movement Grace Schwindt worked together with several female participants to create a Movement and Sound Archive, based on shared memories of significant or traumatic events around migration. Instead of using words, the body served as a mediator for sharing these memories, using movements and sounds. Collaborating with filmmaker Sahar Khosravi, the resulting movements were performed for the camera. The medium of film invites the viewer to be close to the movement and to the person making it and is intended to be an intimate and equal encounter with a body on the screen.

From the open call for female participants: “With this project I want to propose and insist on the necessity for direct touch between individuals, a touch that invites closeness without the need to explain oneself and to allow being affected by each other. (…)”

During the workshops, Grace Schwindt and the participants shared experiences through movement exercises that are based on different movement therapy techniques. In the next step, they "translated" the shared movement into a sort of alphabet or a "movement archive", developing a specific formula for this translation that can be applied to any shared movement. This alphabet can be used as a material to write a musical score or a movement choreography, becoming a source material from which new "sentences" can be formed.

In response to the movement workshops, Schwindt also created several sculptures in ceramics and bronze. The sculptures pick up movements and body positions that were shared during the workshops, but also developed from Schwindt’s own emotional response to the workshops and include recurring elements from her sculptural work.

The exhibition was created in conversation with Danielle van Zuijlen and Valentijn Goethals.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32322