Everlasting Evanescent: From Mouth to Land
Sharing Places - Salinas Del Curro,
Blanca ES
October 2024
Funded and Supported by the Goethe Institute
My body, a tool of research.
The environment overtakes us both,
Tracing traces, visible and invisible,
Evanescent and everlasting.
"Everlasting Evanescent" is an ongoing exploration of visualising the invisible. It focuses on two main themes: First, the potential of the body to embody its surrounding environment, evolving a new language capable of engaging in real-time dialogue with the landscape. Second, it questions how we consume spaces and how these spaces, in turn, consume us.
The research/performance “From Mouth to Land”, showcased as part of the Open Air Museum in the Salinas del Curro where the territory was transformed into a living canvas with a series of embodied performative researches, exploring encounters between body and landscape. The work investigated the possibilities of creating a language that fosters a non-verbal dialogue between body and space.
How do we trace non-verbal narratives? How can this chain of associations exist within the body?When dealing with “alive spaces” how do we create a show with no beginning and no end—a durational exhibition of tracing.
In this research, the body becomes not only a medium of exploration but also a curatorial tool, on par with written and visual tools.
Based on the belief that the human body holds greater potential for curatorial world-making than the mind alone. The body instinctively accesses concepts passed down transgenerationally or through tradition—where the mind might block that connection. Like the ecopoets, I believe the environment is inseparable from human experience, and we shape each other.
Through this alternative curatorial practice, grounded in the body, the research explored how land and forces intersect—without relying on language, or at least not starting with it.
This research was created during the Immersive Residency Series in AADK and presented during th first edition of SHARING PLACES, in collaboration with The Festival Academy, in October 2024.
Artists and cultural agents from different regions of the Mediterranean and the South explored how artistic and cultural practices can expand in territories, strengthening human connections and highlighting the value of solidarity and resilience.