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Circulation (#2)

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posted on 2024-10-30, 18:13 authored by Mick DouglasMick Douglas
Background: 'Circulation #2' is a one-day site-specific performance installation work developed for the international Zoom Fluid States Festival on the breakwater of the Croatian port city Rijeka. The work commenced with invitation for festival participants who travelled from around the world to each bring 1kilogram of their own region's local salt to exchange with Adriatic seasalt at the installation site. After a day of free conversation around the resonances and significances of salt, whilst exchanging salt, the work culminated in a participatory experience of returning salt to the Adriatic sea. The work builds upon the genres of 'site-specific performance' and 'live art' to engage a public in the frisson between locality/globality and ecology/sociality to foster awareness of living with systems of circulation. Contribution: 'Circulations #2' demonstrates how live interactive performance can provide audiences with intimate, embodied and responsive experiences that incite contemplative engagement. This work incites an experiential aesthetic encounter of potential critical learning that converges three levels of awareness: the co-existence of locality and globality; the inter-relationships of ecological and social exchange systems of circulation; and the situating of the citizen amongst these systems. The work provides a unique means of providing public audiences with a situated poetic encounter with the historical role of salt trade, and its particular significance in the context of the Adriatic; with various cultural meanings attributed to salt; and its potential as a medium for gaining experiential understanding of ecological systems in relation to production and consumption systems. (Continued on coversheet - attached in Documents)

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  • Performance (Other)

Outlet

Zooming Fluid States

Place published

Rikeja, Croatia

Start date

2014-09-06

Extent

10am-11pm

Language

English

Medium

Interactive performance installation

Former Identifier

2006052443

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Publisher

Zooming Fluid States (temporary festival)

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