First Touch（2022）撮影：４|1ｃ3
Time travels in species collaborations, 2022 Photo： Shuntaro Yoshida
First Touch, 2022 Photo： Maharu Maeno
This project by performance collective Mapped to the Closest Address and artist Yuni Hong Charpe focuses on choreographic creation and a book adaptation of the group’s activities. Members conducted environment-themed dance workshops and performances in Berlin in Germany and Nantes in France, documenting these in an origami-style book, “Lichen score ” (designed by Tezzo Suzuki with English proofreading by Emily Garfield). In the research process, members interviewed arborists, physicists, and chemists in Japan. The resulting work reflected the ecosystem of the Tokyo area, and was well received when it was performed in France.
Mapped to the Closest Address
Mapped to the Closest Address is an interspecies dance collective composed of four human animals and a cat, Violeta. Through choreographic practices, the humans wish to interrogate their orientation towards modernity/coloniality, to question their understanding/entanglement/devotion/administration of/for nature and to shift their anthropocentric perspectives. Collectively, we sew practices to enter in contact with other nonhuman lifeforms. We use various devices to record our encounters and translate them into otherwise sound/landscapes.
Participating Artists: Alex Viteri, Shuntaro Yoshida, Catalina Fernandez, Maharu Maeno, Violeta
Universität Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Honolulu, Nantes, France
