Performance / Film / Installation
Bodies of Land
Bodies of Land is a site-responsive installation that brings together durational performance, moving image, and sound into a continuously unfolding field of perception. Anchored by Circles of Here, a live, time-based action in which the artist inscribes a circular trace across the gallery floor that slowly erases itself, the work stages presence as an index of relation without claim. Banners printed with stills from the Presence series line the walls, held in place by leaning
branches. Historically aligned with signaling, protest, and collective address, the banner is reconfigured here as a porous communicative surface, as if authored by the land itself. Drawing on the chromatic codes and visual language of land surveying, the installation invokes systems of measurement, division, and ownership, only to destabilize them, opening a speculative space in which animacy is redistributed and authorship becomes diffuse.
Projected films, ambient sound, and ephemeral mark-making operate as a spatial choreography, collapsing distinctions between interior and exterior landscapes, document and apparition, body and terrain. Across these elements, the exhibition resists monumentality, and advances impermanence as a form of care, proposing attunement and restraint as countervalues to accumulation and dominance. Through duration and embodied attention, the work opens a shared field in which body, space, and human co-author meaning, asking how we choose to inhabit, witness, and tend the places we move through.
In an era defined by acceleration, dispossession, and environmental precarity, Bodies of Land asserts attentiveness, slowness, and
relationality as forms of resistance. The work foregrounds impermanence, care, and reciprocity, proposing that belonging is cultivated through sustained attention and embodied engagement. It does not offer solutions, but aspires to foster the curiosity to stay, with ambiguity, with land, with one another, long enough for something else to emerge.
As a counterweight to the status quo, the project reframes the gallery as a site for intentional encounter, inviting audiences to inhabit the simultaneity of internal and external landscapes as a counter-practice to extraction, distraction, and competitive hierarchies, asserting that listening, witnessing, and co-presence are urgent cultural acts.