The Language of Experience

The Language of Experience, Mexico City, 2022. Video

The Language of Experience is a movement technique that explores how to access knowledge rooted in everyday life, teaching embodiment as an immersive state that challenges non-visual ways of accessing information. Within the framework of this project I embrace landscapes as a lexicon, a communication tool that tells the viewer a story. Through a landscape we can learn about history, the fabric of migration and colonization, the operations of power and resistance, the unraveling of discourse and representation within weather patterns, growth, destruction, waterways and ecosystems. We rarely take into account how what we see can influence us physically, so possibilities can arise from being embedded into an evolving landscape or environment? Using all of the senses to respond to a particular environment encourages us to become rooted and impacted by our surroundings. This technique can be used as a tool to help forge different ways of being in relationship to ourselves, surroundings and each other. How our bodies respond to the changes around us is an important tool in understanding how we navigate through difficult times. How do our surroundings inform how we interact with people and places?