Introduction:
‘Holding space’ is an installation in a way that calls for the viewer’s complete engagement of body and mind.
When we think about the relationship between humans and nature, it is clear one is overpowering the other. The idea that we are above nature that we have dominion over it, and that it is endlessly abundant is a dangerous relic of an age of arrogance and ignorance.
Many of us are living in an urban environment, we are getting more and more disconnected from natural ecosystems and spaces which surround the human. It is routing in our brain to have this connection. This connection needs to be re-awoken.
We are part of nature; we depend on ecological systems to sustain us. Our approach to everything we do, design, and produce must be informed by this knowledge.
For most of our recorded history we set ourselves apart from nature. Life on this planet is an ongoing experiment in myriad forms and we are merely one of those forms.
The installation serves to isolate and objectify the natural landscape. Landscape installations, a landscape decontextualized from its surroundings, this small swatch of land evokes its own set of associations, analogies, desires, and anxieties.
The installation is initially suggesting a room in a house. The installation ensures that you hear more and hear more sharply because the created ‘room’ gives a feeling of center. So that you have a relationship with the center, the plane and your surroundings.
With ‘holding space’ I want people to experience a visual display of nature, which is normally invisible to the naked eye.
Questions/ Exercises: Choose one
Enter with your eyes closed.
Enter bare feet.
Where did you place yourself when you entered? Focus on seeing.
Focus on hearing. Does the perception change?
Enter bare feet.
Where did you place yourself when you entered? Focus on seeing.
Focus on hearing. Does the perception change?
Final video documentation Holding space
Final presentation Holding space
