Carolyn Deby
Carolyn Deby was Artist in residence at the UCL Urban Laboratory during the 2011/12 academic year.
Leverhulme Artist in Residence 2011/12
During this residency, Carolyn used choreographic methodologies to examine the Urban Laboratory itself seeking to create meaning by making connections between the physical, geographic, intellectual and incidental trajectories of its academic research themes and the real people and urban places implicated in that research. She filtered her findings through the lens of her own current research project, rivercities.
rivercities is an international, collaborative performance research project, with participants from Canada, UK and Sweden. The project has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts; the Yukon Arts Centre, and the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture (Yukon, Canada); Trinity Laban (London); and the Dance Centre (Vancouver); Pustervik, Producentbyrån, and Danscentrum Väst (Göteborg, Sweden); Vastra Gotalandsregionen Danskontoret (Swedish Arts Council).
Carolyn Deby is an artist/choreographer whose site-based performance work examines the lived experience of humans, situating the human body/psyche within landscape. Since 1999, she has focused on the 'urban' and expanded notions of 'landscape', investigating how humans and the 'urban' are implicated in current/historical systems/reconstitutions of 'nature'.
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