Ebb and Flow
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Ebb and Flow is an installation where I have worked to depict the experience of being in the water, in the canal where I live. As a kind of performance without an audience, I have used my body as a tool to investigate the movement, voice and essence of water.
Can a somatic experience be the beginning of a language? A longing to be able to communicate with the water is driving the work. The physical sensations are depicted in embroideries on transparent silk that also become projection surfaces for the filmed process. Together, the parts form a room for the visitor to enter, a way of reproducing the experience through a wordless language.
The work is also an investigation of how embroidery and music improvisation can inform each other in a creative process. The sound in the installation is the result of that.
While the embroideries can most closely be seen as a slow, ritualistic repetition of the feeling of being with water, the improvisations capture it more intuitively and directly. Therefore, in the installation several dimensions of time and space interact in parallel.
The work can also be seen as an attempt to find new ways for communication through physical sensations, presens, repetition, ritual and deep listening.
Not all wisdom can swiftly be augmented for, and not all you can argument for is true
You have to live the wisdom to know it
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