Regions (2023)

Regions /noun/ a body of unfixed boundaries is born from practices and rituals exploring how human bodily fleshes weave, stitch, melt, seep, ooze, leak and otherwise smoosh into the flesh in the world. Critically, as we undergo these practices of reconditioning to our ecology, not only do we recognise ourselves as extensions of lands, airs and waters but we find ourselves, deeply, often uncomfortably implicated with them.  Layers of relationship are revealed to us. 

For Reciprocity Muscles, what emerges is a reconfigurable and distributed “body” or “region” ruminating the enmessing of human and land flesh. It is created from forms of gestural, tactile note-taking practice and materials caught up in their own material ecology. Water collected from local watery bodies guides flows of ink and leaves traces and residues as it evaporates, clay - which itself bears traces of relationship- is clawed from the earth and dries in the breath of the air - we both leave notes on each other.

Some note-taking is intuitive and responsive - clay forms and ink drawings are fashioned on site. Some note-taking is delayed and reflective - words slow stitched onto fabric, inked shapes reanimated in water. 

Part of Reciprocity Muscles at Cala.Space, Berlin