CRACKS IN LANDSCAPE

cracks in landscape – a performative poem 

Claudia Bosse with Latex Skins, Salt, Günther Auer and his sounds, Earth, Woodsticks, Clay and others 

our planet is covered with wounded landscapes, landscapes that reveal the signs of their human impacts, wars, climatic changes, extraction of materials, or even access to the energies we humans believe we need to survive. people dig into and alter the movements of the earth, burrowing into its layers. wounded landscapes house spirits within them, spirits that breathe into the landscape, into time, and show their traces.

landscapes inhabited by ghosts
landscapes that harbour the dead
landscapes that harbour signs of nuclear devastation
collapsed tunnels or wounded landscapes
their substrate and their proliferations
Reading in landscapes
reading in hybrid landscapes
reading in the environment
Listening with the body and its senses
Is it an oracle or a novel
Is it a short story or an epic novel
Is it silent
It is materialized past and future
We step on futures paved with the living matter
We step on sleeping seeds

cracks in landscape is part of the performative series haunted landscapes. 

at the centre of haunted landscape/s are volcanoes, open-cast mines, mines as endangered landscapes and their myths, stories or experiences. haunted landscape/s wants to encounter these landscapes, experience them, understand the material, changes, connections, histories and myths of different terrains and translate them into choreographic performative work or installative formats.