Carson Reiners

My work has, for most of my life, sought to engage questions of existence, experience, and environment—initially through my own lived perspective, and more distinctly through encounters with others whose experiences did not mirror my own. Since the age of sixteen, I have lived and moved across oceans and continents. As tides shift—and as I shift—my work is now less concerned with questioning than with unfolding: re-orienting, reconsidering, and repeatedly returning to the ability that perspective is something developing and alive. Alive is the keyword there. Maybe the needed word coupled with perspective, in the current landscape. Though that is not enough. Trained rigorously in dance and structured environments, my creative practice has increasingly entangled art-making with living itself, treating creation as a lens that is continually shifting rather than fixed. As a result, my work often crosses disciplines, drawing on choreographic thinking, cinematic capture, object integrity, and material systems that simultaneously impose constraint and offer freedom. Alongside this practice, I have tentatively stepped back toward academia and the arts—awaiting, whether a Phd  structurea can support my research in the arts and 4E cognition as ecolgoical model of understanding that offers a model for the rapid shifts in umwelt and supervision that challenges that statement into fruition. 

My work is in current many year  collaboration with Composer/Multi-Media Artist/Researcher ,Dr. Ricardo Tovar Mateus, so while not present, dialogue still continues)