Curriculum of wi(l)dness: Light
Curriculum of wi(l)dness: Dark
2021
In collaboration with co-choreographer Mary Grace Allerdice
Into the Wild exhibition at Blue Heron Nature Preserve, curated by Steven Anderson
In Western, industrialized culture, we have literally written ourselves out of the definition of nature; we have even considered ourselves in opposition to it. But the reality of our human condition is that we are interdependent with nature and are unable to exist outside of nature.
Curriculum of wi(l)dress was a durational performance that activated different parts of the nature preserve and investigated the idea of connection as our wildness. Embodiment as our wildness. As beings of interstellar material who evolved from plant matter, we are both bodies of light and bodies of earth. What does it mean to inhabit both of these identities within our planetary Nature?
To be wild in these bewildering times is to bring it home and re-member, put back together, the context in which humans evolved to thrive. As animals, as interstellar particles, it is our interconnection that wilds us. Connected to both Earth and Sky like the trees, we weave above-ground systems of connections like their roots. To be wild is to understand that our entanglements and mapmaking are all happening within those of the wi(l)der world.
This performance was intended as an offering, a map, towards our connectedness -- a performance for the reciprocity and interdependence, which is Life.
