Planet i.
2015-18 / Concept & Direction, Performance as Ludic Collective
10/2015, Inverted Planet classes for childern, Summerhill school,Suffolk, UK
10/2016, Inverted Planet intensive workshops, CLOUDdanslab, Den Haag
02/2017, Planet i. Openstudio, CLOUDdanslab, Den Haag
09/2017, Planet i. Audiovisual performance, ARTHUB, Bucharest
01/2018, Planet i. performance, 13Festivalen, Gothenburg
Planet Earth has inverted, outside-in. In a fraction of a nanosecond, the whole planet transforms into a new entity. Our soma - the purposive, perceptive body that forms the locus of transdisciplinary project of somaesthetics - shuts down completely. Then it re-boots: with no memory; no implicit awareness of continuing one’s personal identity, and no medical assistance to help recover.
What happens next?
How is our cognition or our soma and awareness being affected? How does our perception about the world change? How is our soma filtering our new understanding of the world? What happens to the language or the nature of human interaction?
Planet i. (2015-18), an on-going project by Ludic Collective, started from here.The initial idea of this project was something extraordinary and absurd - imagining a space and time out of reach of human technologies and intelligence - happening so quickly and subtly that no one notices the obvious changes in their everyday lives. Through an extensive research and development period, the core idea of Planet i. has become to question how the process of recollecting one’s functioning status back from a traumatic brain injury can be influenced by the environment. With phenomenological approach, in the process of encountering landscapes, structures, humidity, sound and other beings, one would re-establish relationships with the perceived objects, and re-construct one’s implicit senses. Bringing this process into public spaces where everyday-life actions dominate, we played with overlaying Planet i. and Planet Earth as two parallel trajectories.
