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| Time of residency | May 2024 |
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| Contact info | whenthespellisbroken@gmail.com |
| Definition of artistic practice? | My work is rooted in hydrofeminism, deep ecology, and neo-animist ontologies. I explore how art can bridge the nature-culture binary by establishing alliances with the Land and its inhabitants. From touching on a cellular level to listening to plant tissues, art may unveil the interdependencies of animated entities.“ “I facilitate incubations in water that gently influence the thermal properties of cell clusters and harmonic crystals. Driven by quantum activism, I investigate how the body’s memory records and recalls experiences, impacting the manifestation of realities. The interplay between individual and collective memory can address liquid futurities, thus co-creating new imaginaries for collaborative survival. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | Water Holds the Shell of the Skin, a Cluster of Cells |
| Description of investigations and findings | The project seeks to rekindle the cultural significance of communal bathing while exploring cellular memory, liquid intelligence and promoting relational practices in contemporary art. The work is underlying artistic tools for reparation, health and well being while diving into topics of intergenerational trauma within practices of hydrofeminism. My Research focuses on water as a liquid intelligence, exploring its diversity of sources and how they intertwine with the pollen path. The “arkhe” awakens a connection with water, the ecosystem, memory, and its profound ontological significance. The project seeks to question, recognize and highlight these water bodies through performative rituals, participatory water ceremonies, and interventions, creating a living pharmacopoeia. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | Working in alliance with the Baltic Sea and bodies of water from Bornholm. Activation of the Arche through land-based energy practice. Embodiment and somatic research into becoming fluidity to access hidden narratives in the landscape, performing pharmacopoeias. Liquid intelligence, inner waters and cellular memory, we are landscape. Water opens ways and perceptions of what a creative process could be. Clay is a catalyser of life. In astronomical devices, the body is a cartographic tool. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | Trust and reciprocity serve as guiding principles in a systemic approach, creating a space where diverse voices and perspectives converge to shape our collective future. How do we become a fluid common movement, to learn from Water and listen to cellular memory? What are the practices of inclusion and how do we apply them? How can we apply quantum activism strategies to connect information through different bodies of water? How do we rethink the culture of bathing from contemporary arts? |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | The sealed well became an anchor to connect the bodies of water from different locations with Birca waters as our inner waters, a hidden narrative merged throughout my collaboration with Liina. The collaboration with Liina was very meaningful, adding to my performance practice a new perspective of performance art as a space where we can go deeper into practices of initiation and incubation. In collaboration with plants, water and other elements as clay, sand, stones, wood and beeswax. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Beeswax, Clay, Moon, Poseidon Temple, Ritual, Water |
| Research locations | Døndalen, Gudhjem, Helligdomsklipperne (Holy Cliffs), Krystalsøen (Crystal Lake), Lilleborg |
| Further documentation | baer-et-al-2023-creativity-as-an-antidote-to-research-becoming-too-predictable |
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Nazaré Soares
