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BODY POLYPHONIES is a durational performance installation resulting from the interdisciplinary and ongoing group practice that has been developed as part of my MFA research.

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Exploring micro-politics of support and integration, It intertwines tactile and embodied relationships to the mushroom mycelium network as a way to understand its stable network of collaboration. Thus, these experiences become a door to reflect on the resonances between giving and receiving physical support and the intricacies of belonging.

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Body Polyphonies is concerned with collective care, and the intimate process of familiarisation that is necessary between bodies, when integrating individual identities within embodying the mycelium network (even amidst tension and resistance).

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It offers windows through which the audience is invited to witness the bodily negotiations needed for this female ecology to branch, fuse and tangle around the space, in the hope to ignite reflections on what it is lacking (or not) within the current socio-political climate, and how body polyphonies can emerge amongst these disturbing times.

 

In the video on the right, you can see the movement practice itself alongside excerpts of the video and audio files that were composing the installation.
 

 

Performers Alice Gale-Fenny, Amanda Gatti, Francesca Mathys, Julia Pond, Luíza Kessler, Marie Chabert, Mia Schmidt and Michaela Gerussi