EIN VERHEIßUNGSVOLLER ORT

A research founding

I have explored in live performance in nature with art installations and costumes to enter the sacred space of rituals and ceremonies. Focus on the dialogue between nature, the installation, the space, materials, and performers, to create rituals and ceremonies that generate life force and transformation based on the question: How can art, nature and lifeforce generate common rituals to help with rewilding ourselves?

In my artistic research I am interested in alternative possibilities, questioning conventional concepts of stage performances, especially the relationship between the observer and the artist, focusing on a principle of collective and participatory experience.

As well in in the architecture that can be found in nature, wanting to creating a space where a collective experience can take place and to work with the raw and sustainable materials that can be found there.

Ultimately I am experimenting with a format of happening as a playful exploration of our inner wild nature and of re-wilding as a tribe. The inspiration is to find out what "wild" means for each of us and as a group of interconnected beings. How does "wilderness" feel when we listen deeply into our body? What are we conditioned not to express, not to feel or yearn for? How did we become so tamed - and what might happen when we drop some inhibitions and feel into our desires?

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.

photo black and white: Susu Grunenberg // Photos: Giulia Paolucci