A PERCEPTUAL ZONE: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

A Perceptual Zone is a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animal and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body, the throb of the cosmos. In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout October, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space of witnessing, where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

The workshops with Fernanda will extend from her current research into somatic movement and voice practices in solo and group constellations. The nature of the echo and the building of sound worlds will be explored throughout the gallery spaces at Proposition Galleries.

Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

1 Oct - 4 Oct 25

• Daily score for interruption and exchange: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Oct 2-3pm £5
• Workshops 2nd 6:30-8pm - £15
• Public Sharing 4th October: £5

Daily Score for interruption and exchange

On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October you are invited into the gallery to participate in a one hour exchange with Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome. Participants are invited to witness and be with the artist as she/they practice in the gallery space. Participants are invited to make a response for a set time frame. This can be mark making, drawing, writing, movement, dancing or resting.

These sessions are part of Fernanda’s residency and process. They emerge from a curiosity to invite a different type of exchange, community space, an interruption to the rhythm of a day, a space for response and exchange, a space where attention and none judgemental witnessing might spark presence and imagination.

They are open to practicing artists and people who are curious to explore witnessing and being in the doing.

Please bring any arts materials you want to work with.

Daily interruption and exchange scores are booked in advance via the website or simply turn up on the day.

Each session is £5

Fernando Muñoz-Newsome

Of English-Chilean descent, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome is a London-based artist, choreographer, dancer and researcher creating immersive performances and workshops. Through somatic practice and her process driven approach, she explores the potentials of solo and collective embodied power and the temporary building of micro-communities. Collaboration is key, crafting ecologies of liveness, risk, care, and access. Her work shifts perspectives, rippling between human and more-than-human space-time. Approaching dance and voice through the deep poetics of the body and the contradictions of how to be in the world.

All welcome.