Clare Chasse
The subject of my residency explores possibilities of integrated somatic experiencing within contained eco-realities and eco-futures. Using mostly organic materials, or materials that can be reused many times, I’ll be cleaning and creating works with bones, growing large kombucha scobies as biomaterial, bottling and giving away kombucha starter, using practices like crochet, shadow art, paper sculpting, and more to create an interactive display of slow production. In connecting to the circular nature of life-death cycles, my process examines histories which have shaped certain contemporary ways of knowing and being. With critical reference to neo-liberal, neo-colonial expressions of technocratic futurism, the goal is to experiment with potential forms of restoration and resiliency through holistic eco-social networks. Using embodied techniques, organic decomposition / re-composition, analog documentation, performance, and storytelling, the aim is to document a life cycle analysis through sensorial expressions of an alternative eco-reality.