The Senders

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March 19, 2019

The senders

The decentralisation of our humanness in relation to other forms of life and nature is crucial at this point to balance the emotional and environmental climates of the earth and life on earth. We can listen to the stories of plants and stones through technologies that tap into their biorhythms. We usually can't hear them not because they are mute, but because we don't attend to listen. By being attentive we automatically connect with parts of ourselves that want to speak, and societal parts that have been silenced or made invisible:

EARTH
THE BODY
THE FEMININE
THE UNCONSCIOUS

The inner archives turned inaccessible mainly because their activation is a threat to the current systems.

As a society we could become aware and change the invisible structures that guide our unconscious behaviour. The rewiring of the ?invisible structures? is on the level of experience; in THE SENDERS the facilitators use technologies to amplify or reverb invisible phenomena/ taste/ smell/ sound, establishing another relation to spectatorship and attendance through a dramaturgy of multiple sensorial lines that connects us to the larger environmental spectrum and post human thought.

Indirect touch through vibrating sound, cables, water bags and essential oil blends is being proposed as a way to allow people to be with and touch each other through objects beyond violence and exploitation. The aim is to restore nourish and release our human potential as species by activating other ways of sensing and being.

Background

Since January 2017 Stav Yeini has been conducting a research 'Elsewhere' supported by VGC/ BE; that aims at reactivating and integrating dormant/ unconscious brain paths for perception. There is a correlation to collective and childhood trauma as well as human evolution.

The research was based on close collaboration with visual artists, sound artists, programmers, dancers and alchemists, bringing technology in contact with non human agencies and forms of life, and creating living environments for deep listening as a social and political technologies. The research is inspired by a collective need in space, time and presence, and The Senders emerged out of the research, and the next step in bringing all these collaborations together.

Deep listening as a political tool?

The term Deep listening is borrowed from Pauline Oliveros (1932 ? 2016) an American composer and a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic
art music. Later "sonic awareness" - described as "the ability to consciously focus attention upon environmental and musical sound", requiring "continual alertness and an inclination to be always listening".
Deep listening in The Senders as the capacity to be with, enhancing presence as a portal for healing and human evolution, reconnecting to knowledge that comes from within, which has been collectively silenced.

Credits:

Concept, Choreography Soundscape, : Stav Yeini
Space design, interactive installation: Nimrod Astarhan
Video: Siet Rae/ Eva L'Hoest
Sound facilitator: Christina Vantzou
Alchemy, scents: Ayin De Sela
Fermentation, taste: Andrew Hardwidge
Dance, performance: Mikko Hyvönen, Ezra Fieremans.
Supported by: Buda Arts Centre, STUK, workspacebrussels
Thanks to: Rasa Alksnyte, Linnéa Martinson, Joeri Thiry, Noam, Anat, Arad, Nektar Yeini, YAELAVAN Dagan

Supported by and shown at:
workspacebrussels (BE) PERFORMATIK 19 biennale
STUK - Huis voor Dans, Beeld & Geluid (BE) )
Buda Arts Centre (BE)
Szenne Gallery (BE)
Brussels Gallery Weekend (BE)
Brakeegrond/ Beyond the blackbox (NL)
Yaga festival (SI)

Contemporary Cruising magazine

Presentations:
Tryout: Biennale PERFORMATIK 19 Brussels

Premiered in STUK, Leuven

Presentation in BUDA, Kortrijk
Documentation of a session from the greenhouse in BUDA, Kortrijk
Documentation of "midi sprout" from the greenhouse in BUDA, Kortrijk

Presentation in EspaceMoss

Build down in Brussels gallery weekend 2019

Presentation in Brakkegrond, Amsterdam, NL February 2020

"Gardens and groves and other hidden places can represent an earthly paradise, as in the Garden of Eden of the Book of Genesis, or the temples and walled cities, they are protected places, metaphors for cosmos, against ever threatening chaos. They are places of birth or rebirth." Gardens, Groves, and Hidden places/ D.A. Leeming (ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion

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