The project began with embodied research conducted in natural and urban locations across the Netherlands. Guided by Sara Ahmed’s Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology, I used this text as a manual to navigate these environments, exploring the interplay between bodies, spaces, non-human entities, and materials. The research involved intuitive object collection and reorganization, soundscape recordings, movement notations, and choreographies inspired by objects and spaces. These were complemented by detailed sound descriptions, conversations with friends, and workshops with students.
This work has been guided by an interest in finding new ways of relating to matter, ‘nature’ and the environment. By allowing my desire and subjectivity to be shaped and transformed through these interactions, the project creates a dialogue between sound, texture, movement, and form, reflecting an evolving relationship with the material world.
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