intertidal

(320 waves)

Engaging, experimental composition methods designed to center input from more-than-human collaborators, this video is the second work in the ongoing research project Interspecies Scores. Recording and attempting translation of multispecies articulations, a visual score is created and performed with ecologic forces, bodies, and entities positioned as dynamic collaborators, rather than artistic resource. Generated through the movement of 320 waves at -31.779185, 115.732556, Mullaloo Beach in Wadjuk Nyoongar country, the visual score performed in Intertidal rejects the binary lure of dystopic or utopic visions, offering an imaginaries of perpetual and iterative reconfiguration in their place.

Intertidal takes the eco-tone as its center of exploration, considering the somatic tensions of inhabiting times transitional zones. Reflecting on how the intertidal wash might offer a more-than-human frame for navigating epochal anxieties, Intertidal offers a moment to celebrate in the tensions and timescales of transition, as the Intertidal zone embraces the transversal bleed between worlds and epochs and makes clear alterity is an invitation, not the marker of collapse. 

Intertidal is currently showing at Metro Arts in Brisbane as a part of Body-cites, Center for Projection Art & FRAME: A biennial of dance.Excerpts of the work will be available here following the exhibition.

Dual channel video (5:00)

Featuring Tamsyn Heynes