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BE CAREFUL(L)
BEYOND WHAT DRIFT US APART
PART OF COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH UNFINISHED ART SPACE AND MAHALLA FESTIVAL IN MALTA
For this collabortive project I had been carrying out micro-interventions within the space around the Qalet Marku Tower, bringing together my instinctive movement and poetry, with ever-growing issues around environmental contamination, climate-anxiety, and a hypocritical stasis which sees pollution and contamination increase constantly. My body-as-tower immersion in the site will guide visitors along her reflective journey and asks; “In the future, what is the colour of nature?”
It has been an incredible and challenging adventure negotiating and curating public space, coexisting, getting closer to and working with the nonhuman, challenging dominant narratives, breaking them down and building alternative ones. The symbiotic relationships which developed between the human and nonhuman brought different communities together, to listen, understand, zoom in, challenge, coexist. We have acted as voices to break up the dominant, to bring forth the unseen, overlooked, untold and unheard. It's a great start to a series of site-specific projects focusing on the areas surrounding our coastal towers, their un/built landscapes and the geo/socio-political, understanding environmental aspects and the nonhuman through curatorial and artistic practice, overlapping this with aspects of cultural heritage.
Extract from my text:
Good afternoon,
Dear nature are you ok? How long do I need to wait to get the answer, find the answer, do something with the answer, keep following the answer, do not go to the before the answer, run away from the answer, tell someone else about the answer.
Is this a planet where nature is no longer nature?
Does nature suffer from trauma? Is nature melancholic? Is nature grieving and mourning? Can you point out what through what is the emoji for nature? What does the sound of nature sounds like if it has to speak with us
Loss in nature can be found on the TV news with huge headline or a small scale just by you finding micro areas and sinking deeper ur body understanding more. Loss is loss. Nature is not a beauty contest. Nature is not an advertisement. All nature matters. And all that exists in between nature make it matters
Shall I perform for you? Or shall I let nature do the performance? Shall I perform with nature or shall I perform in the nature? Or shall I perform close to nature or celebrating nature or mourn nature? So many ways I can make a performance? But do I really need to perform and do I really know what
I am performing? Does nature want me to perform in the nature? Lets take few moments and give the change and once in a while opportunity for nature to perform for us.
