project overview
One Day residency
On April 5th 2025 I hosted a one day 'embodied listening' residency together with visual artist Bora Bredar at the 'Buitenplaats Brienennoord' in Rotterdam the Netherlands.
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Eiland van Brienenoord is a living island...
With this residency we researched how to connect to its 'Voice' through 'embodied listening'
-Humans have always been able to speak and communicate with nature and its spirited world. Art, crafts, performance and touch are powerful tools to listen, connect and relate ourselves to our environment and fellow inhabitants.
The better we are connected to ourselves, the better we can connect to others.
people, animals, micro & macro cosms, nature and its spirits.
Arts, crafts, and performance; are all acient tools to tune in with our selves, and with it tune our holistic body to our emviorment as a way of embodied listning.
As modern day humans we create an excessive amount of sound. 'Endless rippling waves, shattering the clear-water service of life.' It seems as if Generating ‘noise’ has almost become a default state for humans.
May it be our inner-silence that is broken by consistent thoughts. Social silence broken by uninterrupted dialogue, or environmental silence shatterd by construction, transport, artificial light and electromagnetic fields.
But removing human presents from nature, means denying our very own nature. We've proven we are more than capable of generating sound, but in 'togheterness', we can generate silence as well. Being silent togheter somehow opens up a portal to a world rich of 'voices' of the emviorment. What does it say?We discover that humans speak not only in tongues, but also in senses. how do we speak back? thats through embodyment.
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