Flowers of the Glacier
Amphibia
Insularias
Sounding Sound
Le feu tue les yeux de la Nuit
Cam
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*intent*
Navigating Turbulence
Elon Kierre
Scrying into a Shell
Ballard in Albisola
Writings - Home Shores
- Navigating Turbulence
2022 - ongoing
video, score and eco-performance
7:45
in collaboration with Genietta Varsi
(ask for the link:)
We warmly thank all bodies present on Partiosaari, that have helped along the process, especially the plants and other workshop participants, Lucy Davis, Joshua Finch, Mari Keski-Korsu, Julia Lohmann, Sani Sarimaki, María Villa Lagarcha.
We are two bodies/ friends/ colleagues/ collaborators/ insularias, currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Through the time we have spent together we have discovered that we are united by our sensitivities, curiosities and perspectives on water - getting wet, diving and looking at the horizon. Together we have a project called Insularias where each of our curiosities and relations with water come together, and where friendship guides us. We are interested in exploring ecological thoughts, the materiality of words and venturing into bodily experiences that tell the stories flowing our way.
For this process-based video, the ritual we followed was led by artist Mari Kesi-Korsu and her practices around sauna, healing practices and medicinal plants. We heard, learned and interpreted her teachings. We made our own ritual looking for ways to cultivate our friendship, while taking care of ourselves and our surroundings. The process was based on walking through the forest, discussing, deciding, foraging leaves, stems and flowers, touching, cutting, talking, hugging and exchanging gases and fluids between humans and plants, infusing the plants, submerging our feet in the bath, singing, and meditating. We documented all of this using one of our feet as the recorder, in order to shift perspective to ground level, we then wrote a score reflecting our shared experience.