There was a meadow

Presented in June 2025 in Arnhem, NL.

While this piece is part of artistic research into human-plant collaboration, the work does not aim to achieve collaboration. This work revolves around the impossibility the maker has encountered when trying to collaborate with plants and serves as a performative retelling of the experiments* that he has conducted over the past few months. He tried to de-centre his human position in relation to plants, he tried to give the plant agency but ultimately his anthropocentric approach remained perpetuating a relationship of extraction. Therefore, these attempts were unsuccessful. Was trying enough? Probably not. Maybe that’s why everything disappeared.

* the technology of this performance works by translating the bioelectronic signals changes that the plant emits when in contact with humans into MIDI. This data is then used to generate sound/visuals in real time.