SITE-SENSITIVE
An ongoing land & body based research taking place in the Black Mountains, Wales.
The following videos form part of an ongoing inquiry exploring encounters of bodily and emotional porosity with Land, Water and Sky. Through an immersive layering of moving images and field recordings, the videos capture spontaneous movement rituals as practices of presence and reciprocity with my local landscapes. Rooted in queer and decolonial approaches, this practice of site-sensitivity shifts away from fixed ideas and predetermined outcomes, prioritising uncertainty, waiting, and responsiveness to what emerges in the moment.
This ongoing inquiry explores the following questions.....How do we cross boundaries into places with care and sensitivity to the communities that already inhabit them?......How might we perceive feelings of consent, or limits within/from a place?.... And....What becomes possible when we approach a place as a living relation rather than a passive environment'?”
Along with the following videos, a series of offerings accompanies each landscape, emerging as gestures of care, reciprocity, and gratitude.
Claimed by rocks at the banks of the Upper Wye, and a creaturely offering made from driftwood and stone overlooks the water.
Bending, bowing to the wind, and a gathering of stones and skulls on the hilltop.
Mosses of ‘Cwm Byddog’ and an offering of branches at the foot of a Hawthorn tree.