BUTOH FESTIVAL - Sympoiesis

Sympoiesis

Exploring soil as an organ with its own metabolism –permeable to the living and dying– this performance is an amalgamation of scientific methods, photographic recordings and movement that is inherent to each particle of earthly structures and chaos.

Originating from natural sciences, soil-chromatography is a process to make visible and assess the different components of soil samples, taken from different parts of the earth. The various patterns and colors of a chroma can be analysed to gain knowledge about the health and nutritional value of a specific soil and there- fore, also gain fragmentary knowledge about its past and possible future. Taking this scientific method into a new context, I am working with soil as an active collaborator for image- making: the final picture is not just a representation of earth and its components, but it is the soil, the earth itself that creates this image in the first…