A performative investigation into emergent systems, participatory emergence and the discovering of cosmos through fielded relations in place
Together We Are Chaos (2025-now) is an emergent performance-inquiry developed through a BIRCA residency and in collaboration with Metropolis for Performing Landscapes 2026. While the initial BIRCA residency served as an experimental laboratory, this work is intended to unfold outdoors in landscape and site-specific contexts. The work examines how bodies, place and relational patterns co-create shared experience through simple, embodied actions that generate forms without central control.
At its heart is a spider-like presence – a guiding, situational figure developed early in the BIRCA context – that activates spatial relations and invites participants into a network of movement, gesture and attention. Through guided prompts, movement tasks, drawing and sensory engagement, the performance activates a field where individual and collective actions shape a dynamic choreography of presence and pattern.
Rather than presenting a fixed piece, Together We Are Chaos proposes a situated, responsive performance framework: the body in dialogue with landscape, atmosphere and others. Each iteration unfolds in relation to its specific site and its participants, revealing how emergent structures arise from play, attentiveness and shared experience.
The performance foregrounds:
- embodied emergence as both method and form
- relational exploration between bodies, place and perception
- artistic inquiry into how order arises from apparent chaos
- the creative interplay of movement, memory and collective sensing
Project experience:
- 2026 Performance // Performing Landscapes 2026 // Metropolis
- 2026 Research // Winter Hibernation Residency // Metropolis
- 2025 Research // Residency // BIRCA, Camilla Stage
