hannah simmons

selected works

Grass Is Greener
2023-present
Live Performance
In collaboration with Alethea Alexander
Grass Is Greener is an irreverent duet investigating artifice, decay, replica, impossibility, and permanence.
Field Guides
2021-present
Interactive Audio Series
In collaboration with Leah Crosby
Field Guides are site-specific audio installations designed to help you think differently about your body and your environment.
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Body (Like a Place)
2020
Photo Series, Durational Performance
Body (Like a Place) is an attempt to slow the process of disappearance.
Limn
2020
Video (Duration: 5 minutes, 13 seconds)
Created in response to the newly imposed limitations of how our bodies are allowed to interact in the context of a global pandemic. The material temporarily replaced an apartment window screen.
We Grow Up Into Ghosts
2016-2020
Iterative Video Series
The project’s initial iteration was an interactive video installation where the viewer only appeared on screen if they stood completely still. It developed into a generative tool for choreography, allowing dancers to explore their relationship with stillness, pace, repetition, and temporality as well as a triptych of video works.
Phantom Limb
2019
Video (Duration: 4 minutes, 32 seconds)
In collaboration with Sarah Fetterman
A duet between sculpture and performer where film turns both entities into landscape and terrain.
Past Selves
2017-2018
Durational Performance and Installation
In collaboration with Sarah Fetterman
Fusing immeserive installation with live performance, Past Selves explores the dynamics of memory.
Your Dreams are Growing Teeth
2015
Durational Performance
Created in collaboration with the performers
Four intricate, methodical solos crafted on parallel tracks.