LOST RELATIONS: Methodologies of Impermanence
Hosted by Amanda Krische
˘▿˘Location:
Rockaway Hotel, 108-10 Rockaway Beach Dr, Rockaway Park, NY 11694
PERFORMANCE TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7if89PgSP4
An interdisciplinary love letter, written through the body, to the ocean.
"LOST RELATIONS: Methodologies of Impermanence" is a 3-part devotional performance practice focusing on the mythological, biological, spiritual, and emotional perspectives of the ocean. Part community embodiment experience, part performance, and part interdisciplinary panel, this project welcomes the connective tissue of our global oceans to teach us more about the wilderland of impermanence, the freedom of moving cyclically, and mirrored uncertainties: of our bodies and the world that we inhabit.
We are all bodies of water. We cycle, we roar, we are in flux, we find moments of stillness, those moments disappear, we collapse, we reach out to each other through shared identities, we exchange heat through our bodies, we are moved by forces larger than ourselves. This day of communing together is a chance to witness the wild that we must return to in this time of increasing collapse, to honor the water, to be and breathe and think and feel and move together.
Presented in partnership with the Rockaway Hotel, we will meet at the hotel in a constructed water temple for a practice of various oceanic rituals, we will walk together to the ocean for an interdisciplinary movement performance, and we will land back at the hotel for a discussion with a panel of scientists, psychologists, and artists.
This is a gathering about the ocean, and the many stories we collect as we exchange heat, distribute temperature, become bodies in touch with other bodies, and remember a sensuality we have been taught to forget. It is about the things we talk to that we cannot see: the space between.
It is about crossed borders and boundary lines, interpolations of care and the creation of sanctuary spaces.
This is a gathering about ritual, about things we must remember: being together, holding each other; holding and being held. A practice in inhabiting the paradox. Sitting with our capacity, and then stretching a little deeper.
We will send out our siren call to the ocean, we will listen to its response in our own bodies, and we will learn more about how to support + strengthen our connection to oceanic life force.
*Photo by Pablo Koury
*Many thanks to the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National YoungArts Foundation, American Foundation for Bulgaria, and the Rockaway Hotel for their support of this project
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