Motus Mori is a long-term project in continuous development. The Institute travels from city to city, coming back year after year to meet local residents, collect their movements and create bespoke manifestations of the living archive.
Step 1
In each city, we start a new movement-archive by observing, learning and sharing. Our dancers conduct movement-interviews with many residents to add their most personal gestures to the archive and spark connections across bodies and stories.
Step 2
Working with dancers, movement-donors and local collaborators, we invent new methods to keep transmitting these movements from body to body. The archive is not filmed, photographed or recorded: it exists in our bodies, memories and stories.
Step 3
We come back to each city to transform the ever-growing archive materials and create new artworks: exhibitions, installations, intimate rituals and large public space manifestations.
Connecting people
We start each city-archive by interviewing local residents, who donate their personal movements and the stories they trace in their body. By contributing to the archive, movement-donors become connected with the everyday movements of thousands of others. We then transform the archive into a city-wide monumental ritual owned by community members who keep it going year after year.
Which movement would you like to donate and inherit?
Transforming space
In each city, we investigate the places that are meaningful to local residents. From contemplative museum settings to shopping malls, train stations and public squares, we inhabit these spaces with bespoke manifestations of the archive that become part of the memories of the city.
What moves your city?
Participating cities
