I Am a Human Without a Body

“Speculative Ecologies” is an international program focused on the creation of a new sensitive regime stimulated by narratives that foster nature-cultures agencies. 

In the expanded field of the forest, coexistence is part of the poetic and artistic process and will be an inspiration for the creation of artistic languages in dialogue with the challenges of the Amazon. Created by Labverde in collaboration with The National Institute of Amazonian Research (Inpa) and Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), Speculative Ecologies gathered a group of artists, indigenous people and scientists to come together to recognize and narrate nature, in an attempt to create new ways of existence and interaction with the environment; and to co-imagine new approaches to the future of the Amazon.

Text by Cecilia Fiona from the catalogue:
‘The forest is a master of living and dying all at once. In the forest I found myself losing the sense of where I began and where I ended. No words were useful here. 

I created an offering for the pregnant tree, the sick tree. The performance explores different kinds of human existence, life cycles and transformations.

Fifteen faces sculpted from the forest soil were lying in a circle on the dry ground on dead leaves. Fifteen participants from the residency collected the faces and carried them in a procession into the forest. Offered under the pregnant tree in a new form.’

Materials:
Soil from the Amazon, Urucum Seeds as red pigment, dead leaves

Duration:
1 hour

Performer:
Andrea Barbour

Photography:
Christian Braga

Video Documentation:
Christian Braga, Ingrid Styrkestad, Marina Weis.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation 

Read Cecilia Fiona’s poem