Dance and Law

Anna Macdonald: Practitioner in residence at IALS (some notes)

I was appointed a Practitioner in residence at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), London, in March 2023. The aim of the residency is to provoke new thinking about the potential connections between ideological, material and affective organisations of legal knowledge within the IALS library. Over the year, I have been working with the IALS library spaces, materials and staff, using somatic-based practices to explore how different users move within and through its spaces. The residency will culminate in the creation of a film, working with filmmaker Marisa Zanotti, that explores the affective and somatic experience of the IALS library space: what encounters it invites and what permissions it affords. 

You can see some work in progress from the residency in the posts above or go to annamacdonaldart.co.uk to find out more about my dance/law work with Marie Jacob, Professor of Law at Leeds University.