niels plotard
Niels (b. 1993, France) relates to atypical processes, ones which move away from habitual patterns of engaging and being-in-the-world. His interest lies in the weaving and intertwining of practices and perspectives.

He is an transdisciplinary artist, performer and engineer, intrigued by the exploration of movement within physical, visual and sonic worlds. He is curious about the invisible, the out-of-sight, the overlooked and the forgotten. He is driven by a search for alternative ways of creating meaningful connections with listeners. Curious about moving, and being moved.

Collaboration is central to his practice. He looks to be in the perimeter of other people, collaborators and teachers who value honesty, transparency, inclusivity, sensitivity, awareness, and attention. Niels is in the process of developing his own practice as he grows, engaging with the subjects that matter to his immediate context and surroundings — feeding and giving back into the process of research, creation and community.



Solastalgia (2021) — Site-specific screendance film, 8’15’’

Direction, production & performance - Florinda Camilleri
Co-direction & co-production - Francesca Mercieca
DOP, post-production, sound design - Niels Plotard
Saxophone - Fah Rouge (Ryan Farrugia)
Title & graphic - Ed Dingli
with the support of Ben Borg Cardona, Pineapple Media
Solastalgia (2021) explores grief emerging when the land which once gave solace no longer does. Director and performer Florinda Camilleri grieves for her homeland of Malta, a small island and European state in the middle of the Mediterranean, which has been radically transformed by land development in the last decade. Seeking to transmute this grief, Florinda places her body in different urban and rural landscapes in an attempt to find her place within them, and rediscover a sense of belonging which has been fractured. She studies these landscapes with curiosity and care, engaging with them as sites of creative potential. Together with collaborators Francesca Mercieca and Niels Plotard,  Florinda seeks to reveal the monstrosity and beauty of the present moment in Malta, by "staying with the trouble” (Haraway, 2016) and asking: what next?