12 artists with singing, sound, performance, writing, choreography backgrounds living as community.

 

I kept wandering in the twilight and invited them to follow me. We entered several thresholds.

At first we went to a riverbed. I grinded stones to dust on a fallen tree which was prolonging the sound far beyond my own being. The sand was leaking along my leg. 

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I went upstream and found huge clay deposits which I carried on my back, while removing the bag with which I used to carry the clay, I felt as if a part of myself was suddenly taken off or was missing. I became worried and didn’t knew at first how to handle this emotion. It became obsessive and I decided to carry the clay-being on my back for several more days and tied around my stomach in a net I had made specifically for it. It became like an extension of my own flesh. How to relate to other beings ?

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I took it from day to night, on a twilight walk from one world to another towards an altar where Tereza Silon and Zeynab Gueye initiated a ceremony on Lamentations and grief. It was a collective performance opening onto active mourning.

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Other documentation below, with the wooden sword : full moon celebration, collective fasting, exploration of the forest via fungi connections.