During The Grass Residency Alkmini experimented with her visual and vocal vocabulary. She spent a concentrated time reflecting and untangling thoughts and performance ideas on the romanticization of rural life in Greece and Ireland. Using tools such as grass, shepherd calls and bells. She experimented with the idea of bells as a universal sonic tool in religion and life, the representation of modern “ruralness” and the hierarchical powers within a herd of sheep and a herd of people.
Alkmini also spent part of her residency collaborating with artist Isobel O’Donovan. Departing
from the slug’s lovedart as means of procreation, Isobel and Alkmini explored Milford house and
the landscape surrounding it by closing the distance between their bodies and the grass’s living
organisms. Their interactions treaded the boundary between pleasure and pain in a way to
communicate the permanence and temporality of the performing body in the landscape. Their
bodies tangled and spiraled in the grass leaving traces and challenging the soils capacity to
hold the human body.
Isobel and Alkmini will continue their collaboration beyond the residency’s duration and let a
new piece of work grow. These images are the residue of their time spent moving through the
landscape.
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