The sea at night, Middelkerk, Belgium, 31.12.2024
Experimental evening at PLOEF Brussels, 9.3.2023
With guest musician Manuel Hermia
Methodology
Leaning on the sensorial Sensible paradigm initiated by Human Sciences researcher Danis Bois, the performers-researchers explore the relational grey areas that inhabit all interactions and borders as potential spaces where otherness is seen as fertile. By committing to a specific attentional skill and tuning into the body's connective tissues, the performers aim to bypass dominant tendencies and dualities and let other voices emerge. The practice both gestural and graphic demands an expanded form of perception beyond the usual to bypass constructed representations within the biographic bodies. A wilder region enables a different kind of cogito that challenges binary thinking leading to a dialogical field between old and new/invisible and visible/intimate and collective.
By relying on specific sensorial complicity with the body's interiority, the performers tune into their unknown and the unknown of the other. This allows a more neutral, equal and sensible texture to establish contact. This is made possible by tuning with the connective tissues of consenting bodies, which constructs a common perceptual field—a wilder region between them—beyond the patterns of their own histories and patriarchal tendencies.
The immediate traces left by the bodies on trial are directly linked to the resonance of these collaborative singularities' impulses and inner states. They reveal what emerges between the KNOWN and the UNKNOWN, what is displaced and confronted, all the mediations but also the creations emerging once the listening field is broadened. The traces are then exhibited briefly as a trace of a trial; the only visible element of an attempt to listen radically to otherness as a terrain of consent and autopoiesis rather than a polarising dichotomy.
The artists collect photos and elements related to the traces post-experiments and performances. A not-yet-known language shapes itself, a new cartography of post-patriarchal endeavours feeds the research.
Performed at PLOEF Cultural Community Center in Brussels in 2023 and Montlaux residency at the foot of the Lure Mountain in France in 2024.
Wih the support of Svenska Kulturfonden in Finland, PlOEF Brussels, Compagnie du Passeur (Sylvie Bitterlin) France.
Wih the support of Svenska Kulturfonden in Finland, PlOEF Brussels, Compagnie du Passeur (Sylvie Bitterlin) France.
