Chloe Chignell

Chloe Chignell (AU, 1993) is an artist based in Brussels working across text, choreography and publishing. Her work focuses on language within a choreographic frame; she invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. Chloe graduated from a.pass (BE, 2020) and from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (BE, 2018). Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens.

Her work has been presented by KAAP, Littérature etc., Wiels Art book Fair, Argos Centre for Audio Visual Arts, Saal Biennale, Moving Words Festival, QL2, Bâtard Festival, Kottinspektionen, Dancehouse, The Kier Choreographic Award and Venice Biennale of Dance, among other venues in Europe and Australia. In 2020, She published her first book The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable with uhbooks edited by Will Holder. Her writing has been published in misted.cc an online temporary reading space (NL), Choreography Journal (NO), Le Chauffage (BE), RealTime (AU), This Container Magazine (SE/BE), ...and then the doors open again (BE/NL) and Engagement Arts Zine (BE). She currently teaches as part of the BA and MA dance programs at ISAC (BE), P.A.R.T.S. (BE) and HZT (DE).

As a dancer she has worked with choreographers across Europeand Australia including: James Bachelor, Bryana Fritz, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Phoebe Berglund, Anna Gaiotti, Clara Amaral, Gry Tingskog and Angela Goh.