Dominique Savitri BONARJEE IN/ FR/UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2025 Ritual of Love: landscape of breath-image, ephemeral installation, Realisation Festival, UK.
2025 Scores for Unknowing: ai and AI, ritual and installation, Backsteinboot.
2025 How to Dream a Rasa Machine, sound-dance composition, Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, India.
2025 Swuš: a Ritual of Love, installation & ritual performance, Last Ship Art Residency, India.
2024 Meditations on Disappearance, song-dance installation, Backstein Boot, Berlin.
2024 Collapse. Group performance ritual in public space, City of London.
2024 How to Dream a Rasa Machine. Live installation, Iklectik x CTSC, Sonic Immersive Media Lab (SIML), Goldsmiths University, London.
2023 “Dressed in Water”, While it is Vanishing it is Being Born. Guest dancer. Produced by Natsu Nakajima & Mutekisha Dance Company, Tokyo.
2015 – 2022 “Black Walk”, Field Trip Project Asia. Group exhibition, curator: Daisuke Takeya. Various locations including BACC Bangkok, Museum of Marine Science and Technology and Bamboo Curtain Space, Taiwan, NIE Gallery Singapore, Vargas Museum, Philippines, Kuala Lumpur Biennale.
2022 “E=H2O”, Mixed Bag. Group exhibition, The Church, Goldsmiths University.
2022 “Mind Rave”, Sex Re-Boot: performance art & sound. Curator: Dyana Gravina, Iklectik Art Lab, London.
2022 Proxy Bodies 2.0. Group Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute.
2021 Japamala. Installation Performance, collaboration with Chaong-Wen Ting (TW),
Idolon Studio at Kunstfest Weimar 2021.
2021 Proxy Bodies 1.0. Group Exhibition, Hamilton MAS Gallery, Felixstowe.
2021 AO. Dance film commissioned for Landscape & Goodness Research Group & Beyond Measure group exhibition, Cultural Institute, Uni. Leeds.
2019 So Tired the Sea: Everybody is Exhausted. Audio-visual performance, collaboration with Astrida Neimanis’, Lofoten International Art Festival.
2018 outländish. Group exhibition, Gruntaler Galerie, Berlin.
2017 The Curves of the Hours, installation, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan.
2015 Nameless. Joint exhibition with Ryo Shimizu, Hagiso Gallery, Tokyo.
EDUCATION
PhD Contemporary Art (2023), Goldsmiths University of London.
Space of the Nameless, research-by-practice doctoral project. Supervisors: Dr Kristen Kreider, Michael Archer, Dr Nina Wakeford, Andrew Renton. Examiners: Dr Sophie Seita, Goldsmiths University & Dr Emma Cocker, Nottingham Trent University.
MA Scenography & Performance (2007), Central St Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London.
PUBLICATIONS
Butoh as Heard by a Dancer (2024), monograph, Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance.
“Self-Remembering in the Vertigo of the Fundamental” (2024), On Dizziness: Navigating Dizziness Together. Anderwald, Ruth; Grond, Leonhard (eds.); www.on-dizziness.com.
PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Collapse”, Artistic Research PhD Programme: Public Colloquium, workshop, presentation and in-conversation with Jack Halberstam, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
2022 “Space of the Nameless”, Listening Academy, Iklectik Art Lab, London.
2021 “Sounding the Membranes”, Centre for Technology, Sound & Culture, Iklectik Art Lab, London.
2021 “Listening in the Thresholds, Moving with Membranes”, STATE Studio: science, art, society online presentation.
2021 “Collapse Redacted”, Society for Artistic Research, Lost Conference site, Vienna.
2019 “Wobbling, Oceanic Feeling & Relation”, Contemporary Drawing Research Symposium, Drawing Room Gallery, London.
2019 “Encountering New Ground in the Process of Fabrication”, Association for the Arts of the Present, Tai Kwun Art Centre, Hong Kong.
2019 “Imagine a world where everyone has everything they want”, Futures of the Real, PG Annual Conference, Goldsmiths University, UK.
2018 “Automatism & Automation: Lecture-Performance”, Intelligent Futures, CHASE Conference, Sussex University, UK
2017 “Sacred Flesh, Asceticism and Butoh practice”, Sacred Places, Liverpool Hope University, UK
2015 “Black Flag: a public opinion pole”, Body in the Contemporary City, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona.
2015 “Black Walks”, Beyond Contamination, Performance Studies International (PSi), Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
2015 “Black Walks”, Where to? The Future of Walking Arts, Falmouth University, UK
INDEPENDENT TEACHING
Dance & embodied research workshops, Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2025); Colet House, London (2020 – ongoing); Central St Martins College of Art & Design (2022); “Epistemic Decompression”, Art Research Colloquium, Die Angewandte, University of Applied Arts Vienna (2024); Realisation Festival, UK (2023, 2024); Dance Foundation Course, Harare Zimbabwe (2014); London Buddhist Centre (2023-14); Tatwerk, Berlin (2013).
Embodiment Hackathon 2022, movement research & electronics workshop event, Sussex University, UK.
RESEARCH NETWORKS
On Dizziness: Navigating Dizziness Together, Contributor (2024)
Centre for Technology Sound and Culture (CTSC), Contributor (2021 – 2024).
SELECTED AWARDS & FUNDING
Hibou Foundation, creative support grant, 2025.
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice award, 2023.
Arts Council England, Emergency Response Fund, 2020.
Graduate School Fund, Goldsmiths University, 2020.
Research Strategy Award, Art Department, Goldsmiths University, 2019.
Invention Creativity and Experience Award (ICE) for art-science collaborations, Goldsmiths University, 2018.
Sasakawa Foundation Grant, Cross-cultural collaboration (UK – Japan), 2015.
Lisa Ullmann Dance Scholarship Fund, UK, 2011.
NON-RATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Kirana School of Raga, master classes with composer La Monte Young, New York City, 2023
Hindustani Classical Vocal, Bhavan Centre, London, 2022 - ongoing.
Singing as a Life Practice, ongoing classes with Emma Bonnici, UK, 2023
Tai Chi Chuan instructor in the Wudang Lineage, Integral Tai Chi, London, 2015 - ongoing.
Sufi Whirling Dervish in the Mevlevi Lineage, Study Society, Colet House, London, 2020 - ongoing.
Microphenomenology Interview Training with Claire Petitmengin, France, 2019.
Vipassana Buddhist Meditation initiate, Dhama Dipa, UK, 2019.
Butoh dance research & training with various teachers in Japan, 2012 – 2017.
Pilgrimage to the Dewa-Sanzan and the Miira Monks of Yamagata, Japan, 2014.
Kumano Kodo solo pilgrimage, Japan 2014.
Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh, India, 2011.
Skinner Releasing Technique, dance course, Independent Dance, UK, 2009.
Contemporary dance training, various teachers, UK, USA, Germany, 2000 – present.