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Daniella Valz Gen, (Be)Longing)
Project type
site-specific, performance
Date
2019
Location
Various
2019–ongoing
Produced during my time as Co-Director of ]performance s p a c e [, this work involved a series of site-specific interventions documented through 35mm slide film, texts and a publication.
(Be)longing is an embodied exploration of communion with the land through the process of embedding a body in the landscape. The work stems from ecological concerns that expand to urgent socio-political issues, and proposes reflections on the questions of:
Where does the migrant body belong?
What does it mean to belong to more than one place?
How do we forge our relationship to the land we occupy?
And how do we forge belonging as an internal experience at every moment?
At the heart of the project exist three landscape interventions which took place at various locations across the UK in the Summer and Autumn of 2019 in locations outside of London (Postling; Kent, Fermyn Woods; Northamptonshire & The Warren; Kent) -generating decentralised and urgent discussions surrounding migration.
The 35mm slide film is by Rowan Powell.
