Body Weathering - poetic nebular intentions
(2019)
author(s): Anna Maria Orru
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
Weather is not an object experienced from a distance, but rather a medium in which every living being is immersed. This weather reporting views clouds as 'containers of possibility,' as an infrastructure for thinking about the body as a vibrant, experiential and living matter to reinforce a direct relation to nature - merging land and sky. Because environmental commitments are complex, I enter the challenge through exploring embodied modes of inquiry into urban-making using a corporeal relation to clouds and atmosphere, exploring their common materiality through a day's workshop culminating into a performance (modes expressed as intermissions). The artistic research is grounded in a Butoh choreography practice called Body Weather, performing fabulations with clouds supported by theoretical roots in corporeal studies, vibrant materialities, environmental imagining, atmospheres and assembled relations. I engage with the question of how to curate a corporeal poetics in urban-making with clouds in mind, and what if bodily movements created atmospheres to ecologically live by? My intent is to cultivate an artistic embodied approach to urban-making, thinking through clouds and embracing the body as a refined medium for generating a poethic -poetic, political and ethical - entangle with space.
Debris Flow | 2022-2023 IHC Platform Gallery
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Ali Williams
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Debris Flow - FEMA Map I
Debris Flow - FEMA Map II
Handbuilt black clay spheres, screenshot FEMA Disaster Map, Goleta Beach (sand, sea, organic material, terrestrial debris)
2022
The 2022-23 Platform exhibition engages with the IHC’s public events series theme, Too Much Information, which considers what it means to live in the Information Age. How does the human brain process the ceaseless influx of information in our media-saturated world? How are the capacities for attention and relaxation, and mental and physical health, affected by “information overload”? How are democratic practices, social movements, national policies, and security decisions influenced by the global circulation of data and the ubiquity of misinformation?
