Salt and Stone is an exploration of changing the way we experience our bodies in an ecosphere that has been both irrevocably changed by humans. Simultaneously the ecosphere has the power to destroy us and, when we are reminded of this, our fear may drive us to do further harm. Through butoh and text, this …
Set in a world that requires protective gear, this piece is about the things in our daily lives that we’re told we need, but don’t realize disconnect us from nature and people. Once we fight through the things that strip away our humanity and connect with the elements, physical touch and those around us we …
A song cycle of metamorphosis and return. A child searches for his voice in a drop of water. But the voice is captive far away, disguised as a cricket. A woman struts by the sea in blazing sunlight, her words swim around her like little fish, in bright swaths of lime green and lemon yellow. …
CHOKED is a performative statement about the iniquities of worldwide, pollution-related sickness and death magnified in the age of Covid in a world that that exploits cheap labor for goods.The breath soundtrack is inspired by the self-discovery of deep open-mouth breathing while in a butoh workshop and a deeper exploration into eastern breathing techniques and …
‘We the Living’ is a magical realist film set in a former bath house and abandoned mineral water distillery where the artist Hollie Miller is accompanied only by her sculptures. She uses found and altered organic materials to reimagine her anatomy through an animalistic framework. This surrealist film explores metamorphosis, annihilation and rebirth in reference …
A Sea Of Cogs is a series of short films (both streaming, and woven together into a singular live performance), focusing on interviews with individuals who have lost work and their sense of self during the pandemic. Told through Zoom interviews, visualised data, and excerpts from Ursula Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”, it strives to map …
You may be like Boy. You may be like Tree. Or, you might be like both Boy and Tree. It is completely up to you about what you see and how you feel in this story. You don’t even have to describe it with words. That’s why a story exists. A story is a mirror …
El Vergel is the evolving path walked by tow characters, dressed up in organic costumes and masks, they seek awareness on belonging to an ecosystem that communicates, exchanges information, collaborates and maintains balance through a subtle language that does not relay on words; observation, interaction and integration. Art is their means of transport, through their …
Within an isolated room the natural, domestic and industrial entwine in a shifting sculptural landscape of integrating and disintegrating bodies, spawning demonic entities, fleshly spectres and hybrid forms; enacting the metamorphosis of the human and non-human, the dissolution and mutation of identity and subjectivity, and the primordial emergence of potentially from unformed chaotic ferment. Visceral …
There is something like a shimmering flower in the darkness. Is it a figure which adores the movements of the dead when they were alive? Is it a wriggle of luminescence of a life which is about to be born? It is a shimmer of light which is continuously appearing and disappearing. A world of …