Jaye Hayes
slow-motion somanaut.
dancer. writer. educator. facilitator. mentor. curator.
somatic movement. embodied ecology.
crip choreography. contemplative arts.
deep listening. deep rest.
installation. collaboration. investigation.
sound art. science-fiction. sleep.
Artist Statement
Jaye Hayes [they/she] is a dance/media/installation artist, somatic movement educator and therapeutic arts facilitator living/working/playing at the intersection of dance and disability, somatics and ecology.
Jaye cultivates an embodied, immersive and interactive approach to their arts practice and aims to generate resonant fields of experience that are personally and culturally transformative.
Queer(y)ing the poetics of somatic movement, embodying politics in process, practicing radical kindness, listening to and with their ‘radiobody’ and conjuring post-ableist, sci-fi futures are ongoing themes of their practice/research.
RECENT PROJECTS
Blue Shift
(2016)
Dance-video installation.
Somatics meets the screen in space.
101.txt
(ongoing)
An archive of text sourced from page 101.
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Obliterate Hate
(2017-18)
Interactive installation & web app.
www.obliteratehate.net
EVOLUTION
'Art is not a way of making a living,
it's a way of making a life.'
Training & Trajectories
Jaye is has BA Drama (Flinders University) and BCA Hons Dance (Deakin University). Inspired by their curiosity about the politics and poetics of form and process, Jaye set out to explore non-traditional contexts and outcomes for their work. She has pursued a hybrid contemporary arts practice with the moving body as their primary site of investigation.
Becoming a radiobody
As an emerging (submerging) artist, Jaye produced queer performance art, networked installation, improvised site specific dance, radio art, text art and dance/media work. Highlights included residencies at Banff Centre (Canada) and Bootlab (Berlin) and commissions for ACMI (Melbourne) and PICA (Perth). This period of experimentation & exploration lead to a queer(y)ing of process that evolved into an ongoing investigation of the body as radio.
Evolving into a slow-motion somanaut
Jaye is a 'spoonie' (a person disabled by chronic illness). Following the onset of ME/CFS, Jaye shifted the focus of their dance practice to movement research, and spent a decade researching & developing a somatic movement practice based on Body-Mind Centering®.
Re-emerging, Re-constellating...
In 2016, Jaye created a somatic dance/video installation as part of an Honours research project investigating the poetics & politics of a somatic approach to queer-crip dance-making. Jaye is currently undertaking Masters research into somatic movement as the basis for multi-modal arts practice.
EVOLUTION
Emerging
(queer as)
As an emerging artist, Jaye produced queer performance art, site-specific work, and dance/media installation. She presented her work nationally & internationally. Highlights included residencies at the Banff Centre (Canada) and Bootlab (Berlin) and commissions for ACMI (Melbourne) and PICA (Perth).
Becoming
(a radiobody)
During this period of experimentation & exploration, Jaye engaged in a queer(y)ing of form & process that evolved into an ongoing investigation of the body as radio.
Evolving
(into a slow-motion somanaut)
Following the onset of chronic illness, Jaye shifted the focus of her dance practice to movement research, and spent a decade developing a sustainable, somatic movement practice based on Body-Mind Centering®.
Re-emerging
(within new ecologies)
As a re-emerging artist, Jaye has investigated the poetics & politics of a somatic approach to queer-crip arts practice as part of an Honours reseach project in Dance (Deakin University), has completed Masters Therapeutic Arts Practice (MIECAT) and is currenty developing their practice as a mentor/facilitator/curator.
SLOW LIFE
still moving
quietly
in sensuous spirals
between long aestivations
I awaken
antennae extended
a slow motion somanaut
a curious mollusc
seeking wave-forms
leaving lines of silver on the earth
CONNECT
A little social, sometimes.
