Collaborative Exhibition
The Earth Narrative Series
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Add your voice to the conversation.
“when do you feel connected to nature?” - Twitter: #earthnarrative
The Earth Narrative Series is designed to help expand the language we use to frame ecological issues by engaging the public in forms of collaborative storytelling through a creative, multimedia platform.
Both Emma and Zane created their artwork individually, informed by the idea of interactivity and emergent synchronicity to the space and overall exhibit.
One of the inspiring aspects of this project is the opportunity for the “viewer” and “listener” to experience a moment were distinctly different media and creative sources can spontaneously converge, generating a thematic harmony that unifies individual components into a whole, even temporarily. This is one of the design principles behind the Earth Narrative, creating common ground.
The video in the exhibit is an assemblage of imagery from a variety of different sources, all original, that address the question: “when do you feel connected to nature”. The idea was to get different “answers” that will illustrate common ground.
Displaying your words (tweets) is an essential part of the exhibit and how it works.
This language, in the aggregate will contribute to a new narrative expressing our common connection to the planet.
So please add your voice to the conversation.
“when do you feel connected to nature?” - Twitter: #earthnarrative
Emma Morehouse:
Live performance installation by dance and visual artist, Emma Morehouse. The piece, Column, is inspired by the private spheres we create around ourselves in moments of silence. These are moments we tune our senses and notice the malleability of inside and outside. The installation overlays with video and exists as a space indicative of the regenerative and persistent nature of the earth. Between the outside viewer and the performer within there is a porous membrane. Light, shadow, and a sense of weight and depth pass through. Within this membrane the performer moves through a sequence using rhythms based off cellular development and the organization of cells into organisms.
Zane Lazos:
As a composer, this project has come to embody my relationship to the planet via a number of dualities. I am primarily a travelling musician and composer, and the heart of what I do is embodied in my relationship to my voice and the physical instruments I play; this is my interface with the public and a lot of the time, the natural world as well. But through this project, a number of questions arose: How are the public and the natural world different or the same? How can computer-based music making really exemplify my connection to the Earth? How do the “low-tech” and “high-tech” elements fit together to tell a story that is representative of that connection? The centre of the work started as a collection of sounds utilising computer composition. As I strove for a unifying pulse, the underlying thematic elements (and thus the true centre of the work) shifted to the physical instruments, my voice, and my interactions with them. This was not surprising; as an urban dweller by need and by choice, my connection to the Earth sometimes feels tenuous, and my first instinct is to ground via communion with the instruments. Thus, the physicality or embodiment that these sound sources bring enforces and informs that connection. The planet is a multi-faceted musical entity singing forth its hymns across the aeons.This is one of my attempts to tap in, explore, and interpret the song of the Earth creating and re-creating itself and thus find my place within it.
