2020
GEM FOREST
> participatory performance installation
GEM FOREST is a performance where human and extrahuman bodies are guided by a voice.
It is a journey, an oracular consultation and creative labor.
It is a process of simultaneously creating and moving through a Forest inhabited by entities from the past and from the future.
GEM FOREST is an open field where the primitive and the dangerous meet, gaze, breathe, move, grief and celebrate.
GEM FOREST is a performance where human and extrahuman bodies are guided by a voice.
It is a journey, an oracular consultation and creative labor.
It is a process of simultaneously creating and moving through a Forest inhabited by entities from the past and from the future.
GEM FOREST is an open field where the primitive and the dangerous meet, gaze, breathe, move, grief and celebrate.
GEM FOREST is participatory performance that happens in a Forest of inorganic matter set in an indoor space. The spectators activate the space, guided by an aural score. A voice invites them to move through and become the GEM FOREST through sensation, imagination, memories, and possible relations between human Bodies, material and incorporeal entities. Somewhere else in the Planet, the Oracle watches the live place-event through a screen. She intervenes in the place-event by giving poetic readings based on her Crystal Healing Oracle, and on what she sees in the GEM FOREST.
GEM FOREST was created for the festival ‘The Artist is Absent’ (October 2020), in the frame of the Master Performance Practices program at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands. The festival was designed, curated and realized by Anushka Nair, Barbara Lehtna and Foivi Psevdou. Due to the limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was designed to receive one spectator each day, during 100 days. The spectator-activator of GEM FOREST was Ella Tighe.
Creation: Korina Kordova
Performance: Korina Kordova and The Forest
About the festival: https://files.cargocollective.com/c1072439/artist-is-absent-gem-forest.pdf
Irina Baldini
