Carina Rose's interdisciplinary art practice weaves together her work as movement artist, architect, and ecologist to investigate the human body’s relationship with the natural and the built environment. Through embodied and creative engagement with place, she invites inquiry and meaning to emerge as a situated, spatial and ecological poetics. This practice is both artistic and critical- an exploration of how we can inhabit an Earth where all life flourishes.

 

Interplay of the prosaic and provocative emerges as she endeavours to express the raw essence, vitality, and incongruity of, navigating our bodies through space, object-making, relating to natural phenomena, and material consumption.  Her creative impulses and her movement and visual language are a confluence of eclectic and broad experiences.

 

Carina trained as a professional dancer before studying architecture and receiving Architecture and Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo. 

 

Her movement and voice training was developed with Six Viewpoints, EcoSomatics, Butoh, Grotowski, Improvisational Dance, Developmental Movement, Body-Mind Centering,  and as a member of non-traditional choirs.  As co-founder of the Habitat Practice Group, her research on improvisational and somatic movement is ongoing.

 

Carina maintains an architecture practice in experimental and sustainable design, carinarosedesign. Her independent works have been funded and supported by the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, Canadian Council for the Arts, and the Ville de Montréal.