Performance by masharu within The Warp, produced by Lee Ellickson
In collaboration with SasaHara, misha, Julie, Makiru, Sarah Massey, Dwan Makampo, Maria Mavridou, Simone Goslinga
Sound design by Andreas Tegnander
Photography by Olga Ganzha
The Warp presented Local Claying performance by masharu as part of The Shadow Floriade in the Beatrixpark: The Life of Earth, Part One, on 28/08/2022. Local Claying was performed by with SasaHara, misha, Julie, Makiru, Sarah Massey, Dwan Makampo, Maria Mavridou, Simone Goslinga with sound design by Andreas Tegnander drawn from the vibrations of trees in the surrounding park.
Photography by Olga Ganzha
In different cultures across the globe earth was endowed with sacred properties, personifying rebirth since it provided people with food, and, therefore, life. Fertile, cultivated and protected, the earth has always been honored. Interaction of the human body with earth, beyond burial in the ground, is a part of traditional practices known among different peoples; from being used for divination or tests of honesty to even eating it. For this performance masharu and collaborators came out of the local mud and participate in a claying, a playful figuring of the new shapes to be made of changing bodies negotiating the local earth.
Video by beyla noa margulis
The Warp: Audio Visual Spatial is presented by Stichting C. L. O. U. D. (Consequential Laboratory of Unspecified Dimensions). The Warp is made possible through the generous support of Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsdeel Zuid, the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and the Stimulerings Fonds Creatieve Industrie.
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