Performing Landscape
2020, 4K Film
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Performing Landscape is a digital film project that explores coexistence, symbiotic relationships, and feminist theory within the ecology of the saltmarsh and mudflats in the Thames Estuary. The project is inspired by the ritualistic performances during the 2019 Extinction Rebellion protests and riffs on the idea that landscape is a man-made concept, requiring us to have a closer appreciation of its behaviour. Sited in the Thames Estuary within the saltmarsh and mudflats near Two Tree Island, the project blurs the boundaries between architecture and nature and promotes long-term thinking.
Donna Haraway has suggested an alternative tentacular embrace between humans and the Earth, making kin with a dying planet and rejecting the idea of the ‘Anthropocene’. In response, the architecture is seeded deep into the ground: it grows roots, blossoms and then withers in an annual performance festival that transforms the landscape.