“The unearthings” are an ongoing body of performance research into rivers, rive-stones and emergent constellations as underground performance practice.
The unearthings are designed as a way to listen to the human and nonhuman energies, resonances, information held in places and sites. The signatures if you like, of land and place, are underneath the human actions that get played out. During the unearthing, these underneath resonances become apparent through voice, movement, gesture and constellating the river stones. Thereby listening for the cosmopolitics of a place, and acknowledging what is underneath in the sense of matter as well as time.
Sometimes the unearthing will resolve something unresolved in a place, or make apparent an action, exchange or ceremony that needs to happen.
The unearthings are performed in collaboration with one or more witness(es), whose dialogue after the unearthing is a part of the practice.
The unearthings can happen anywhere, alongside, underneath, below or just before. Unearthings have so far happened in paf (performing arts forum), Lancashire Forest of Bowland, Betonest Stolpe Germany, Goldsmiths University of London. 2018 - ongoing.
