Members:
Anya Yermakova
Kendall Valentine
Monica Pedró
Francisca Siza
Jody Deming
Date:
This project is a performance-ritual that aims to provide illustrative and embodied material about the role of oceanic interfaces as sites for recovering memories that have been forgotten or lost. The preparatory research and the event itself will take place on the Portuguese coast, at a site selected collaboratively with a local artist and a geomorphologist.
The foundational element of the performance is an expansion of Anya’s research on rolling in intertidal zones as a method of recovering embodied logics that are not at the forefront of most humans’ awareness and that enable “common sense” to be defined more strongly by fluctuation and dynamics than by stability or fixity. Integral to the process will be the co-creation of a costume from fish skins and other coastal materials. Discussions throughout the gathering will address: how can human bodies inhabit this flux-laden site so that a forgotten logics, spanning temporal scales, species, and generations far beyond a human lifetime, might emerge with clarity and ease? The gathering will take place over two days, spanning high and low tides, and each performance will be followed with an invitation to the community to engage in a guided exploration of the intertidal zone.
The research and performance will be recorded and edited into a documentary film. A collaborative concept paper will follow, on the subject of oceanic interfaces as affordances for recovering lost memories; this paper will situate ocean memory within a larger discourse on methods for resisting logical binarism and logical normativity.
