my body, the botanical garden

April 4 -15, 2019 A two weeks artist in residence at the Botanical Garden, University of Zurich and Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany in Zurich Switzerland => about looking and seeing; and noticing => about control, disturbance, agency, empowerment, resistance through the dancing body

The English Lawn takes a lot of land in the Botanical Garden. My body is looking for resistance plants that wiggle through the grass and adapted to stay low so they can stay here. I stay look with them so we can meet each other and dance.

End of the out in the field in the botancial garden – my shoes sole hold stones, seeds, soil even insects. Will I carry some even after my time here at the Garden in Zurich back to New York City. We take our land we are living in with us.

For 24hrs I decided to keep my body awake – the mobile phone light keeps me company – what if I listen to the other senses then my eyes in the night and even not invite the light into the night practice? What would I find? I’m not ready for that yet.

Reaching over the string to ‘befriend’ myself with Arabidopsis thaliana. Is this an escaped lab plant or a wild one? The scientists look for this plants to verify if it is an escaped one from their research center. I decide not to tell them where this one is so they have their own agency in their escape.

Botanical Forest Bathing – my body finds tree time

Note: The embodied scientist/dance research process took hold because of Covid-19 and will resume in Spring 2022 at the Zurich Botanical Garden. More updates soon.