Duration: 25:36
Format: 4K digital documentation video installation
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Concept/Director/Editor: DA Hoskins
Audio Composition: Omar David Rivero
Producer: Oz Weaver
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Dance Artists:
Danielle Baskerville
Andrew Bathory
Jennifer Dahl
Aaron Samuel Davis
Rodney Diverlus
Peter Kelly
Gavin Law
Lukas Malkowski
Dana Mallari Pajarillaga
Fabien Piché
Natasha Poon Woo
Sébastien Provencher
Sully Malaeb Proulx
Marcus Roydes
Stéphanie Tremblay
FIELDWORK digital extension
CANADA/GERMANY//ITALY/AUSTRIA/SPAIN/DENMARK
FIELDWORK is a 25-minute digital video installation that engages 15 dance artists across six countries during a time of global disconnection. Filmed independently on iPhones in 4K, this work documents intimate, physical explorations between body, object, and environment. Each artist interacts with a single sculptural object—a black linen sack—within their immediate surroundings, inviting a meditation on presence, transformation, and embodied abstraction.
What emerges is a cinematic field journal of silent solidarity. Through solo movement investigations, the artists sculpt space and form shaped by their environments, revealing a shared language of vulnerability and creative resilience. The result is a collective portrait of physical and emotional terrain—at once personal, political, and poetic.​​
SUPPORTED with the Canada Council for the ARTS Emergency Fund
FIELDWORK – Digital Extension emerged during a period of global stillness and disruption. In response, I sought to offer something tangible—a creative tether for the artists involved, a point of contact to keep us connected to the pulse of creation.This exploration was challenging. Working across borders, time zones, and screens—navigating absence and presence simultaneously—required a shift in our understanding of process. Yet, within the footage, the body's negotiation with prop and landscape, and the intimate rawness from the dance artists, I now see what we built: a document of shared truth in isolation.FIELDWORK – Digital Extension is not merely an archive or companion piece. It stands as a work in its own right—a meditation on distance, transformation, and the quiet resonance that binds us when we choose to remain present to each other. — DA Hoskins
