(2021-22)
This initiative stems from the Exposure research. It is an invitation for a joint investigation of “becoming-plant” as “a labor of
unlearning certain somatic and mental habits” within a cycle of dance sessions.
Within the sessions, we practice the perception of our tangible selves as co-extensive with the environment and explore such qualities as complete exposure, connectivity, acceptance of all nuances. Each cycle is a place of mixing somatic techniques with plant philosophy, recipes for producing bio-plastic with movement scores, political contexts with fantasizing, feminist practice with biology textbooks and so on.
Within a cycle, there are 8 sessions (ca. 2,5h each) oriented around different issues:
snacking on light ︎ extraterrestrial space and the earth – a period issue ︎ exchanging resources and nutrients ︎ temporalities ︎ space & scale ︎ ‘one that does not distinguish between objects & substances’ ︎ a safety issue ︎ radical openness
![photo: Steve Lowry. Science Photo Library / Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of stoma on lettuce leaf (Lactuca sp.). STOMATA are openings in the surface of leaves that allow gaseous exchange during photosynthesis. The size of the stomatal opening is controlled by two guard cells whose shape is dependent on internal turgidity. Magnification: x456 at 10cm wide.]()
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“THE IDEA OF BECOMING-PLANT IS AN IDEA WITHIN US, COMPOSING US BECAUSE BECOMING-PLANT HAPPENS.”
“BECOMING IS THE NAME FOR THIS PROVISIONAL CO-CREATIVE ZONE IN WHICH THE ‘PARTIES’ AND THEIR ‘PROPER FUNCTIONS’ ARE THEMSELVES EFFACED AND AUGMENTED.”
/Karen L. F. Houle · Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant · 2011/Within the sessions, we practice the perception of our tangible selves as co-extensive with the environment and explore such qualities as complete exposure, connectivity, acceptance of all nuances. Each cycle is a place of mixing somatic techniques with plant philosophy, recipes for producing bio-plastic with movement scores, political contexts with fantasizing, feminist practice with biology textbooks and so on.
Within a cycle, there are 8 sessions (ca. 2,5h each) oriented around different issues:
snacking on light ︎ extraterrestrial space and the earth – a period issue ︎ exchanging resources and nutrients ︎ temporalities ︎ space & scale ︎ ‘one that does not distinguish between objects & substances’ ︎ a safety issue ︎ radical openness
“(…) THE UNIQUE CAPACITY OF PLANTS TO BE ‘IN-TOGETHERNESS’, MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO EMBODY THE WORLD AND NURTURE THE ENTIRE BIOSPHERE WITH SUN POWER.”
/Sylvie Pouteau · Beyond ‘‘Second Animals’’: Making Sense of Plant Ethics · 2013/
CR
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Concept & facilitation:
Dorota Michalak
SUPPORTED BY:
︎ Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
CARRIED OUT:
Berlin (DE), 2021-22
Dorota Michalak
SUPPORTED BY:
︎ Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland
CARRIED OUT:
Berlin (DE), 2021-22