LIZ OAKLEY
BODYWHERE
Creator & Performer
The piece was first developed in the spring 2021 virtual Object Movement puppetry residency and festival with additional development during the Headlong Performance Institute.
Performances/Development:
April 2021: Object Movement Digital Puppetry Festival (video)
July 2021: Puppet Spread at the Tank (Bodywhere: DAYDREAM) video
July 2021: Development at Sable Project Residency
September 2021: Garage Cabaret @ FMTM, Charleville Mezieres (live with Ali Goss + Michaela Farrell
November 2021: Puppet Blok at Dixon Place (live with Ali Goss + Michaela Farrell
BODYWHERE is a collection of iterative, multi-scaled and multi-bodied puppet worlds. The project explores the idea of body as landscape and landscape as body, taking the body as a performance site on which to question notions of place, property, and self.






Video stills from BODYWHERE, April 2021
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Live film screening/performance at Headlong, May 2021

Video still from BODYWHERE: daydream, which appeared at the
Puppet Spread: Into Space Slam at the Tank, July 2021
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Photos from an in-process showing at the Sable Project summer residency, August 2021