Karen Abadie is an artist, filmmaker and researcher.
She explores notions of materiality through her film, sound and video installation. Her work explores the matter of the body, both human and more than human and the interconnectedness of subjectivities.
Combining the disciplines of autoethnography, phenomenology, relational aesthetics and observational cinema facilitates her artistic enquiry..
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7 x 7 x 7
Super8 film, work in progress
7 seconds, 7 minutes, 7 locations along with River Dart at Hembury Woods, across 7 days in July. Developed using weeds collected from the river bank.
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Watery Bodies
Digital film, work in progress
This digital film plays with the matter of bodies, human and non human in a river environment. It articulates the co-responding presence of all bodies in a watery environment. Filmed on location in the
River Dart, Devon.
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Walking the River, 2020
Video Essay, 6 mins 59 secs
The first Lockdown in 2020 hit many of us hard, including me. I spent more than the permitted time in Hembury Woods, near Buckfastleigh, Devon. Walking the woods and the river, they became my solace, my meditation. In these times, I slowed down considerably, noticing the moments between the smallest of things, the minutest of changes through the weeks. This essay articulates this solace, through the liveliness of water.
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