| Project title: | Heartfield |
| Location: | Pavillion Dance South West, Dorset, UK |
| Date(s): | 13 July 2023 |
Artist Statement
In my artistic practice of making known-the-unknown as I encounter experiences through my somatic practices, I explored the heart’s 6ft Electromagnetic field as researched by The Heart Math Institute, as a sonic entanglement. I focused on vibrational frequencies, sound and light as ways to offer an entangled embodiment or sonic entanglement. I also applied somatic nervous system frameworks such as Polyvagal Theory (Porges, 2009) and sound healing practices (Pearson, 1910), in order to offer a safe, regulating unlearning/relearning experience.
The ethico-political context of my practice seeks to expose a more-than -individualised human in order to offer, as Karen Barad suggests, ‘A living breathing re-configuring of the body’ (2003). This trans-corporeal practice emerges in response to the urgency to re-learn a life as we don’t know it, and de-and re-construct the dualisms that have underpinned capitalist modernity and separated humans from the rest of life. Until we have a sense of responsibility, we cannot really know the trouble and our place in it, let alone ‘be with the trouble’. (Haraway, 2015).
Heartfield situates the body in a field of invisible enlivened magnetic material that is co-existing, co-composing and co-regulating at all times, and by doing so brings forth new questions and experiences of the body in relation to self and the world. By creating a generative, AI-driven sound space in which participants affect the sound in the space, they could have a lived experience of becoming porous bodies in one heart field, enmeshed and affected by each other, and the larger electromagnetic field of the Earth and the Sun.
About the project:
Disconnection normalised.
Separation safe.
Living through this post-corona age, bodies need space to collectively unravel from deep tensions woven by the closeness-as-a-life-threat narrative.
Heartfield is a live, generative intervention experience to offer new portals into connection, proximity and our invisible closeness.
Images that follow are from the live installation:
For more information
https://www.instagram.com/the_breathery/
www.pdsw.org.uk