In the shadow of flowers, no one was a stranger to other strangers

Participative Performance / Workshop

All’ombra dei fiori nessuno era estraneo agli altri estranei
In the shade of flowers, no one was a stranger to other strangers

(Kobayashi Issa)

The workshop investigates the themes of inner listening as a collective practice starting with human presence in space and the effects it has on behaviour, non-verbal communication, body movement and social interaction. The inspiration comes from the social organisation of superorganisms (ants, bees, termites), whose collective behaviour is formed by shared identities that define themselves as self-functioning units without an internal command but with a collective intelligence. Bringing this perspective back into the model of human social interaction, bearing in mind that the same sensory experience of space differs from culture to culture, the participants will explore performative actions that ground languages in respect of the inner complexity of each individual in the group and of a collective intelligence. People are invited to set the ego aside and relate to a constellation of common yet divergent intimacies.