NiFe

Performance / Land Art

Circles of Here

Circles of Here is a durational, site-responsive performance practice that generates ephemeral land artworks through ritualized pilgrimage, endurance, and deep listening. Using the body as a perceptual instrument, the work inscribes temporary circular traces into exposed earth across urban and re-emergent landscapes, marks that register witness without extraction, ownership, or permanence, while engaging the animacy and relational presence of place.

Positioned between performance, land art, and social ritual, Circles of Here approaches belonging as an ethical and relational act rather than a fixed identity or territorial claim. The project rejects monumentality in favor of attunement, proposing impermanence as a form of care and balance.

In an era defined by acceleration, dispossession, and environmental precarity, Circles of Here asserts attentiveness, slowness, and relationality

as forms of resistance, positioning presence, and the moment itself as both medium and counter-practice to contemporary conditions of speed, extraction, and disconnection.

Through duration, repetition, and embodied attention, the work opens a shared field where land, memory, and human presence co-author meaning, inviting collective responsibility for how we inhabit, remember, and tend the places we move through.

The work foregrounds impermanence, care, and reciprocity, proposing that belonging is cultivated through sustained attention and embodied engagement. It does not offer solutions, but instead fosters the curiosity to stay with ambiguity, with land, and with one another long enough for something else to emerge.

a rhythm of living, the quiet, still, cavernous places, known to each of us.