Ondicht
2019
I investigated the relationship between frogs’ perception and behaviour and their environment in the unbounded nature of the Ilse of Mull in Scotland.
Frogs are more permeable to the environment than we are. They breathe and drink through their skin. They adjust their body temperature to the environment. The cold slips through their skin in winter until they barely move. I applied what I learned about frogs to how I spent my days in Scotland, changing my day-and-night-rhythm, how I moved and lived on two different surfaces, water and land. By doing this, my time experience changed, and my surroundings became more and more a place for self-exploration: what can a body be, what can a body do? I shared my research with the island's inhabitants through shared movement practice, exhibition, talk and dinner. The residents came up with their own stories and relationship to movement and the island. The frog became central to my work, focusing on transparency and attention, and a different time experience.
2019
I investigated the relationship between frogs’ perception and behaviour and their environment in the unbounded nature of the Ilse of Mull in Scotland.
Frogs are more permeable to the environment than we are. They breathe and drink through their skin. They adjust their body temperature to the environment. The cold slips through their skin in winter until they barely move. I applied what I learned about frogs to how I spent my days in Scotland, changing my day-and-night-rhythm, how I moved and lived on two different surfaces, water and land. By doing this, my time experience changed, and my surroundings became more and more a place for self-exploration: what can a body be, what can a body do? I shared my research with the island's inhabitants through shared movement practice, exhibition, talk and dinner. The residents came up with their own stories and relationship to movement and the island. The frog became central to my work, focusing on transparency and attention, and a different time experience.
Documented by: Miek Zwamborn & Rutger Emmelkamp
Drawing: frog choreography, 50 x 40 cm, inkt, 2019
Drawing: frog choreography, 50 x 40 cm, inkt, 2019
