XXII Triennale di Milano Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival
As part of the Dutch pavilion, I was asked to create a work in collaboration with Dr. Ramon Amaro for ‘Broken Nature’ the 2019 Triennale di Milano event. The prompt presented for the work was the concept of ‘darkness’ especially in the Netherlands which is one of the most illuminated countries on the globe. This notion of eternal light, or light as a means of fuelling economic efficiency was problematised and instead we considered a Multispecies relationship to darkness.
The work takes the darkness of soil as a necessary act of creation, hence the title: “Darkness as the first act of creation”. In it, a duet was created with the Earth where soil from outside the Triennale was brought inside to create a choreography of what happens when dancer, audience, participant, enters the world of the soil. The work asked ‘What are the creative possibilities of ‘soil as a multispecies space’ and how can we reconceptualise our notion and entrance into it as a revolutionary potential?’
