I see your landscape (third archiving)
2025

The work explores the body as an inner archive. As the sociologist Nirmal Puwar proposes, experiences of trauma and conflict extend across generations and communities, and are housed within individual bodies as “affective archives”. Drawing upon research into somatic practices and trauma studies, as well as through the method of Authentic Movement, the work investigates how inner, affective archives shape personal lives leading to diverse ways of carrying what is often held within. Carrying is posited as a critical, creative method, understanding that what the body carries can be felt as a weight and burden, as well as a knowledge for how to survive. As Puwar suggests, the inner archive has a physicality to it, as well as generating a “resonance” that continuously passes between inside and outside, the present and the past.  The work considers this physical resonance as a starting point for a creative restorative process. With eyes closed and protected by an outer witness, gestures and movements emerge that carry the inner archive into the open, and which allows for the cultivation of one’s inner witness.

Extending from a series of Authentic Movement sessions in collaboration with performers in Madrid, the work creates a listening space for inviting a deeper attention on the part of audiences. As Janet Adler highlights in her critical work on Authentic Movement, listening is fundamental to giving room to the multiple voices within.

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