Johanne Haari

Performer, dancer, teacher, social worker and farmer, my artistic research explores the links between the body and environments, whether human or non-human.I have been working for 20 years in an artistic collective that brings together ordinary and atypical artists and performs in public spaces. My explorations focus on how our layers are intertwined: our social, political, physical, emotional, spiritual body. In my work, it is important to question these links more than to provide answers. Our body is made up of as many cells as there are stars in the sky. We are alive and not separated from our environments. For this reason. I always work and perform in specific site. After living in the city for 28 years, I came to live in a mountain region, the Val d'Anniviers, and my partner and I created Plancher perché, a collective space to experiment with the links between daily life, permaculture, auto construction, environments and somatic and artistic practices. Trained at the Tanz Teater Schule (TIP), in performance at the Dimitri school and currently in Life Art Process training (Anna Halprin), I like to collaborate and mix media (videos, dance, drawings, speech, writing) to articulate art-life and commitment (collaborations: with Sara Mc Laren for the co-production of the book Corpographie/ with Ludmila Claude for the video-performance Château obsolescent / EnMovimiento with my children and many others). Passionate about teaching, I also place great importance on the transmission and sharing of tools that art can bring in terms of personal and collective transformation. As an ecofeminist, it is important to me to share and create collective knowledge that allows us to reclaim our bodies. Currently, I am working on the Colporteuses project in conjunction with the elderly people of Val d'Anniviers and Sierre (sharing art fund) with Sara Mc Laren, Ludmila Claude and Myriam Gaudin.