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Hybrid landscapes_ Research on rituals, bodies, knowledge, virtuality as an ecology with landscapes and wounded areas
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Hybrid landscapes_ Research on rituals, bodies, knowledge, virtuality as an ecology with landscapes and wounded areas

This proposal delves into the concept of hybrid landscapes, exploring the interplay between rituals, affective bodies, knowledge, and virtuality within ecological contexts marked by wounds and fractures to uncover spatiotemporal connections between local and global events imprinted into landscape.
 A field with lichen, gras, smaller plants. On the horizon an ensemble of cranes and a small mountain range. A skin like texture is lying on the ground.
Photo: Markus Gradwohl

This is a proposal to take a seat in the cracks and wounds of the earth, about absorbing them and examining their traces in the body. The body relates to materialities and temporalities in the landscape. The temporalities contain cracks in the history of the earth and cultural history. There are deposits of past life in the landscapes. The sediments are also the archives of climatic conditions and the organic waste of dead creatures. The landscape is the afterlife. The body can make knowledge stored in the body, in the landscape and the sediment accessible as ephemeral translation. Although a spatial unit, each landscape is a hybrid constellation of different times, beings and processes. The landscape- observation is part of the term- appears to the viewer from one perspective, whereby s/he/ they is aware of the superimposition of many perspectives of different beings. The landscape is a process of permanent transformation of various life forms and cycles that come together. How to research spatiotemporal connections between local and global events and their interdependencies imprinted into landscapes. How can choreographic practices be learned from landscapes to reconnect with them as affective bodies.

Aim and research questions

-Can the body absorb and examine the earth's cracks and wounds, learning performative and choreographic practices from them? -Do performances within landscapes possess the potential to generate new practices and myths intertwined with the area's temporal and spatial context?

Research implementation and anticipated impact

This research, spanning historical inquiry, landscape exploration, relational and affective body practice will over field research and choreographic field work develop a series of performances with, in and about landscapes that performatively realise experiences with and violence against them. Artificial landscapes will be created as performative environments that invoke absent landscapes. The aim is to develop hybrid working methods and to experiment with performative, choreographic and digital technologies.

Collaboration

Collaborations with experts and artists as well as interdisciplinary dialogue will enrich the project. Collaborations with Weld, theatercombinat, the composer Guenther Auer are envisioned until now.

Research funding

Stockholm University of the Arts

Principal Supervisor

Jon Refsdal Moe

Schedule

2025- 2029
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Photo: Elsa Okazaki

PhD student, Claudia Bosse

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