Ep #2.2 Being in Relation - Identity and Land | Worlding Podcast
Description
Dance artist Zwoisy Mears-Clarke shares how Worlding intersects with his artistic practice, from exploring our ancestral relation with plants to questioning our interconnection with technology and what that means for the communication of time, rest and activity.
The episode then dips into Zwoisy’s current research with the Herero and Nama people that live in Namibia, and are part of the Diaspora. Zwoisy talks about how speaking intimately to Indigenous people has shifted his understanding of his personal journey of immigration from Jamaica, to the United States and from the United States to Germany.
Zwoisy and Renae discuss the relationship with the land that remains fundamental to the identity and way of life of many Indigenous people. Renae shares a memory with her ‘Aunty Peggy’ (Peggy Rockman Napaljarri), a Warlpiri-speaking indigenous artist from Lajamanu in Australia's Western Desert region, who told her at age five that “we are land and land is us”. The pair consider ways to practice this idea in our daily lives by asking - how can we dissolve the perceived border between land and the human body?
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