Ivana Gross and Laressa Dickey
Dancer on the Plane
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Laressa Dickey and Ivana Gross
Performance and video installation
Duration: 30-60 min
Dancer on the Plane explores the geometry between body, nature, and technology. Born from a 2025 exchange at BKN between dancer Laressa Dickey and conceptual artist Ivana Blanco Gross, the work begins with a dancer standing on a plane as a cuboid is drawn. Geometry becomes choreography; structure becomes lived experience. The cuboid—shape, system, metaphor—frames space like architecture, digital grids, or social systems. The dancer tests its limits, embodying lines through breath and resistance. Wrapped, framed, and observed, her body confronts containment. Against technological abstraction, the human body emerges as a fragile, sensing threshold that cannot be fully calculated or controlled.
Laressa Dickey
Laressa Dickey is a dance artist, writer, and bodyworker based in Stockholm whose recent projects explore the politics of care, the effects of state violence on the human body, and space junk. Her work spans disciplines and modalities. She’s the author of the poetry books Syncopations and Twang. Together with sound artist Andrea Steves, she published Radio Graveyard Orbit, a speculative book about space junk. For Bergen Assembly 2019, she and her partner Ali Gharavi created How to Pass Time With No Reference, an multi-media installation about their experiences inside/outside the Turkish prison system. A longtime student of somatic practice, her artistic research has been supported by the Kone Foundation; she researches the dancer’s use of language and the writer’s use to/for dance. She leads writing workshops from the perspective of poet/dancer/artist, working across and through discipline, and teaches Writing Alongside Artistic Practice, at SKH, an elective course which includes university students and working artists. Laressa is an active member of withing, an international cohort of Somatics and Language-Based artistic researchers; and a member of the performative collaboration MISLEADING SUBJECTS.
Ivana Blanco Gross
Ivana Blanco Gross is an American post-minimalist conceptual artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Royal Academy of Art in The Netherlands. Her works have been shown extensively across three continents and is included in private and public collections. She explores the different perceptions of location across geographical space, translating her own connections to people and place into color works and multi-part installations. Specifically, she emphasizes the notion of location through the interaction and intersection of line, color, and geography. Her work often references topographical views of landscapes and cityscapes, and ultimately become intimate time-scapes. She uses different media to express content, such as paint, text, photography, object development, installations, video, and sound.
Ivana is the founder and developer of several public and participative projects, including Un-Send, Grayland, the Whitest white and Hopscotch. Her latest works are a sound compositions based on the environmental sounds of the city of Venice, Italy and a multi part research and sound installation that comments on deterioration of the Arctic Circle. She lectures at universities and colleges throughout three continents; at community based groups as well as congresses and conferences. On occasion, she also gives private presentations. Recent exhibitions for Ivana Blanco Gross include Venice – Italy, Rauma – Finland and Cali – Colombia.
