Jennifer Clarke
Independent Artist, Scotland
This new, short, moving image work draws from ongoing cross-disciplinary research in and about forests in the UK, working with ecologists, foresters, artists, anthropologists, and others. This experimental work explores the complexities of forests in terms of weathering and weather-bodies through the notion of “trans-coroporeality” a concept developed through new-materialist feminist theory and practices that seek to rework abstract climate imaginaries. It asks how might we develop sensorial awareness of entangled human-nonhuman relations, and a sense of closeness. This now virtual work – a kind of performative draft- employs poetic text created through performative reading processes, moving-image and sound, expanding beyond what the future (of forests) looks like by incorporating feeling, affect, towards a decentered view of human-environment relations.
