Gratitude - Watering the Woodlands

Gratitude - Watering the Woodlands took place at the outdoor exhibition Disruption: Remapping Nature for Lustwarande 2017. I designed a garden in and around a dome-shaped greenhouse, inspired by both druidic ritual gatherings and the permaculture movement. Read all about it: here. Nearing the end of the season, I wanted to give thanks to the woodlands by tuning-in and giving water to the forest in a walking ceremony.


During this silent (non-speaking) barefoot meditation we connected deeply to all the greens, branches, trunks, smells, sounds and particularities of our surroundings while a free-range audience wandered around the woods too and could engage is small interactive nonverbal dialogues with the performers. In the video below you can see the team prepare, after which they were silent for 2 hours doing their work. At the end they close with a vocal celebration.
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• Gratitude - Watering the Woodland was a part of DISRUPTION - REMAPPING NATURE in Tilburg (NL), an outdoor monumental exhibition featuring works of Lionel Estève (FR) – Sven Fritz (NL) – Paul Geelen (NL) – Henrik Håkansson (SE) – Antti Laitinen (FI) – Zeger Reyers (NL) – Martin Schwenk (DE) – Egied Simons (NL) – Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE). The performance piece took place during Brief Encounters '17, which also featured a performance by Vincent Olinet (FR).