— IMANI RAMESES —
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Artist - Cognitive Scientist
You are your own discovery
Exploring the practice of discomfort.
Imani Rameses is a practicing dancer, choreographer, and cognitive neuroscientist, living and working in Vienna. She situates her work within a feedback loop of performative experiments and empirical play. Drifting between science and art affords her the opportunity to investigate anomalous phenomena and their emergence in the everyday. She received her master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Vienna with a focus on neuroaesthetics. Rameses has performed work at/in collaborations with ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Wiener Festwochen, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, brut, Digital Arts & Science DAS-Zurich, Society for Artistic Research (SAR), and has presented her research at Harvard University, University of Zurich, and many other international conferences. She views her work as an act of service contributing to the healing of human beings and the planet.
Exploring the practice of discomfort.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
- Diploma in Contemporary Dance, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Guest Student, MA Solo Dance and Authorship (SODA), HZT Berlin
- PhD in Artistic Research, Academy of Art and Design Wrocław
SELECTED GRANTS AND PROJECTS
- EU Co funded Collaboration Grant, Narrative Presences
- Awarded Teaching Concept, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- INTRA Artistic Research Project, Withdrawing the Performer
- Ongoing Project Funding, Austrian Federal Chancellery
RESIDENCIES AND EXHIBITIONS
- Artist Residencies in Vienna, Prague, Brussels, Plovdiv
- Solo and Group Exhibitions across Austria, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic
PERFORMANCES
- Narrative Presences, international performance project
- Invisible Labour, solo performance
- The Touch Can Tell, collaborative performance
- Present Presence, international festivals
CURATION AND WRITING
- Co Organizer, Performance Lab Vienna
- Curator, Silence Matters
- Writer, Venice International Performance Art Week
PUBLICATIONS
- Left Prefrontal Cortex Supports the Recognition of Meaningful Patterns in Ambiguous Stimuli
- Computationally Modeling Aesthetic Experiences
- "Ask the Body: Utilizing Dance to Investigate the Effects of Nonverbal Communication of Emotion Experience"
- Withdrawing the Performer. Facilitating Participatory Sense-Making
WORKS
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