INTERSPECIES SCORES

“If we can hone a sensibility of ourselves as weather bodies in thick time, climate change can become palpable in the everyday, just as the duration of our bodies, prostheses and projects becomes diffused through the thick time of the weather-world.” Astrida Neimanis & Rachel Loewen Walker

The interspecies scores present ongoing research into multispecies communion, communication and co-composition. The scores recognise the myriad non-human agents (forces, materials, bodies) present on any site, as equal collaborators in creative development. Grappling with the limitations of anthropocentric idealogies and their one sided discourse, the scores draw on New Materialist and Posthuman methods to respectfully engage and dialogue with the ever-present, immanent languages of more-than-human ecologies.

Rejecting site-specific in favour of ‘site-inclusive’, visual scores are created through durational, material engagement with the site. Each score is then parsed into movement guided by the ecological attributes and histories of each location. The score is then performed, offered back as a somatic translation, an attempt to re-embed the human form in the immanent vocabularies of worlds beyond the human.

The first score, Transit A is a rain score, was co-composed with site, and local weather at 61.562905, 23.092831 on Sami country in Finland.

The second Intertidal is a sea score, co-composed with site, and local weather at -31.779185, 115.732556 on Whadjuk Nyoongar Country.

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