This is the first of three devising sessions, ending in two public performances.
Free experience - let's create together!
WildHeart artist-in-residence Pascal Buyse will lead a group of participants through a unique process of building performative installations in nature. This residency explores eros as a life force – a queer, sensual energy rooted in desire, connection, and creation. The installations are not static objects but embodied performances of the labor and movement that created them. Participants lift, crawl, stretch, and reach – the act of building becomes choreography. Later, these forms invite the audience to move through them and reawaken those gestures intuitively.
*Core Research Question*
Can an installation—built and physically experienced by its creators—invite visitors, without words, to move in specific ways? How can the maker’s intention be felt purely through material, shape, and landscape?
*Who Is This For*
Queer & allied youth/adults – movers, builders, dancers, performers, artists
No prior experience required – just curiosity and the willingness to use your body
*What You Will Do*
-Build installations using your body in water, forest, and open landscape
-Create choreography rooted in physical labor
-Explore desire, touch, connection, and eros through movement
-Work solo and in groups, in silence and rhythm
-Share the results in work-in-progress showings and two public performances
Artists are invited to drop into any/all Devising Sessions. To partake in both the Work-in-Progress Showings and the Public Performances, Artists must have attended several Devising Sessions and the Rehearsals.
*Artists can stay on site. Housing/Food available at a sliding scale of $30-$45 for a shared room or $50-$100 for a single room. For Artists staying on site, we will collectively cook 1 meal a day, and studio spaces will be available during non-devising hours for personal use.