Concerning the Landscape: A Study in Relationships
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostrils- all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. Otherness, while being difficult to pinpoint its vast nature, includes everything that is unfamiliar to the way of being human.
This work explores the idea of creating a relationship with the landscape by using aspects of the beginning human developmental stages as a starting point – including innate reactions, mimicry and non-verbal communication. This series of performances focuses on the complications of communication, which is used to visualize reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the possibility for trial, success and dysfunction in understanding. By examining the ambiguity of this relationship via reactionary approaches, these performances seek to investigate the dynamics within the space of landscape as well as the limits of our experience within it based on the intentions of our actions. These simple relational interactions with the landscape make way for the possibility of the landscape to be thought of in regards to emotion and connection. These works focus on concrete questions that determine the limitation of our human experience.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostrils- all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. Otherness, while being difficult to pinpoint its vast nature, includes everything that is unfamiliar to the way of being human.
This work explores the idea of connecting with nature by drawing inspiration from how humans develop in their early stages. It looks at our instinctive reactions, imitating behavior, and non-verbal communication as starting points. The performances in this series focus on the challenges of communication, which is used to represent reality, attempts at dialogue, the mismatch between form and content, and the potential for success or failure in understanding. By exploring the uncertainty of this connection through spontaneous approaches, these performances aim to investigate the dynamics within natural spaces and the boundaries of our experiences within them, based on our intentions. These simple interactions with nature open up the possibility of perceiving landscapes in terms of emotions and connections. These works address specific questions that reveal the limits of our human experiences.