As the artists re-connect with the world after a year of shielding, their expressive and experimental piece is a reflection on the strangeness of life, and the interconnectedness of the human and non-human natural world. Engaging with environmental themes, healing and being present, Bibo&Brian Keeley bring together imagery, sound, and voice, and incorporate metaphors, motifs, …
This piece follows the soil as a narrator and witness to the unfolding histories of human cultivation practices and environmental acts of violence. It seeks to make audible the soil as a living global infrastructure, a container for past and present cultivation knowledges and extraction processes and how these stories can be told through something …
Sunflower fields are a tribute to life in a chaotic world. A poetic metaphor where body dance celebrates life even picturing death. Faced with this pandemic world, someway we should keep it up, growing beauty, poetry and dance wherever we are. A tribute of love, welcoming the humanity, the planet, the life.
Give me your pain and sorrow was composed using digital feedback as a representation of the emotional trauma resulting from a year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Frustration at the inept response of government and the individual suffering which resulted are focal points of this work.
10 Scores for a Wild City: Crab & Bee have provided 10 “scores”. These are actions for participants to try out during the course of this festival; an invitation to join in fully embodied engagement with cities, built environments, green spaces and unhuman wildlife. The scores are preliminary actions for a rewilding of a human …
Roon works mainly on “wanders” by creating atmospheres and environments that get the audience to move slowly away from a fixed point or place. She is interested in slow temporality, moving away from the logic of storytelling where the audience focus is not framed. The visible growth of plants (leaves and roots) integrated to her …
In the Summer of 2020, in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, we created The Invitation, a meditation on the human relationship to the natural world, to Animist practices, and our connection to Mother Earth. In the brief days of lockdown, the human world fell silent and the songs of the birds filled our cities. …
SLOOPWILD – Jane Pitt ‘sloopwild’ takes you for a walk without a map begin where you are (or choose another location) a space between, a pause press play listen move follow the sounds to find your drift listen every turn, crossing & boundary is there. Recorded during my own sloops¹ on the flat wet edges …
~ Here; come, restore, replenish, relax. Crafting a better world is not an easy adventure. Rest with me. ~ An experimental documentary exploring the meanings of rest: political, spiritual, tied to labour, associated with guilt. The film is Chapter R of April Lin’s long-term project, “An A-Z of Imagining A Better World”, and serves as …