Osten Cetto : Four Snakes

Within Osten Cetto : Four Snakes, Olivia and Celeste Camfield explore the relationships between the body and shapes through tattoos, movement, and Mvskoke symbols. The film’s live noise score and dance fill the space, utilizing the repetition and layered imagery of the choreography and the film to create an immersive viewing experience. By offering movement to ancestors past and future, the sisters navigate how shape is translated between forms, such as sound, body, and film. Throughout the performance, the film acts as a landscape: the place and history that contextualizes this work, creates our stories, and holds our memories. The visuals and dancers respond to each other and breathe together. At the center of the piece is the connection between two sisters, which propels forward to examine relations beyond colonial perception. The Alien then appears as a form of relation to the stars.

World Premiere at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2024 Time-Based Art Festival

Live Dance, Digital Video, Live Music, 30:00, 2024

Directed by Olivia Camfield

Performers: Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Brett Marcom, Woodrow Hunt

Live Music: Brett Marcom

Video Projections: Olivia Camfield, Woodrow Hunt

Projection Sculptures: Olivia Camfield, Woodrow Hunt