My idea proposes an inquiry into a novel concept of camouflage in relation to choreography as a form of embodied, living architecture. The concept of camouflage embodies processes through which the self is negotiated in and through space. The chameleonic term provides an ideal frame to tackle questions of how we attempt to fit in, identify with and position ourselves in relation to an environment. In this way, the very idea of camouflage carries within itself an architectural concern.

In a work-in-progress moving image piece, dancers perform camouflage acts and movements in a variety of man-made urban spaces and structures that resemble natural landscapes. The dancers blend into their environments not by becoming invisible, but precisely through manipulating the terms of their visibility in space. To be further developed, I aim to explore the embodiment of camouflage as a political critique of structures of visibility to create new living architectures.