INSTALLATION, RITUAL & PERFORMANCE
SELECTED WORKS
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[01]
GREY LADY CANTATA (2024)
Co-directed by Peter and Maria Schumann, this revival evokes the Gaza genocide through music, life-sized puppets, and dreamlike yet brutal vignettes — a communal ritual of grief, resistance, and witness.
[02]
MAR, MAR E MAR (2023–2024)
Fernanda D’Agostino’s immersive installation weaves performance, scientific imaging, and layered sound into a meditation on ecology, embodiment, and human entanglement with the ocean.
[03]
GRAVITY HOLDS ME AS YOU (2022-23)
A year-long durational practice and thesis project, merging ritual, film, sculpture, and social practice to explore grief, belonging, and the body’s inseparability from earth.
[04]
EARTH BODY (2023)
An improvised performance of deep listening and ecological attunement, inviting remembrance and surrender.
[05]
WATER BODY (2023)
This installation of painting, sculpture, film, and sound meditates on grief, motherhood, and renewal — exploring how water and body carry pain into transformation and release.
[06]
SAMHAIN RITUAL (2019-present)
An annual lantern-lit procession through fields and forest with song, dance, altar building, ritual acts, and performance interludes, culminating in fire, food, and collective remembrance.
[07]
LETTERS FROM EARTH (2021)
An immersive projection-mapped installation by Fernanda D’Agostino, gathering embodied offerings to earth from international performers.
[08]
WATER MOTHER
(1-CHANNEL) (2020)
An intimate installation embedded within CETI’s Constellations 2020, situating body and water into a focused moment of embodied presence.
[09]
LIMINAL PERFORMANCE SPACE (2020)
A projection-based platform activated by the In/Body collective, created during the Covid pandemic to transform distance into a shared dream-space of sound, movement, and ritual.
[10]
AGAINST THE CURRENT (2020)
A mile-long projection installation by Fernanda D’Agostino for PICA’s TBA:20 Festival, combining live and recorded performance, ritual, and creative coding into a riverside meditation.
[11]
ALEMBIC ARTISTS SHOWCASE (2020)
A residency outcome by In/Body Collective, combining projection, sound, and live performance to explore ancestral memory, ritual, and collective belonging.
[12]
BORDERLINE SERIES
WITH FERNANDA D’AGOSTINO (2018-2019)
An installation and performance series by Fernanda D’Agostino featuring the In/Body collective, investigating how societal crises imprint on the body and how ritual movement can invoke and navigate ancestral trauma.
[13]
IN/BODY PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE
A collaboration fusing technology and live movement to explore the cyclical nature of simultaneously invoking and healing ancestral trauma through the body.
[14]
WATER MOTHER (3-CHANNEL INSTALLATION)(2018)
An immersive installation encircling viewers with three looping channels of image and sound, exploring motherhood as rupture, continuity, and elemental force.
[15]
EDGE EFFECTS (2016)
A commissioned film installation for Tere Mathern Dance, layering footage of dancers filmed in Portland’s fields and forests into a performance to explore ecotones — fertile thresholds where ecosystems and bodies meet and transform.
[16]
FLOAT DANCE PROJECT (2013)
A curatorial and film project emerging from an experiment in sensory deprivation and movement — mapping what dances out of the void when all else falls away.