User-Friendly-Guides Series: Planthuman
2020-22 / Concept & Direction as Ludic Collective08-11/2020, Nature Art Video Exhibition, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2020, Gongju, KR
01/2021, Planthuman workshop, Blooming Ludus Green Forum, Topia Online
10/2021, ART AND LANDSCAPE NARRATIVES group exhibition, Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român, Bucharest
User-Friendly-Guides Series (UFGs), as the name suggests, is a series of on/offline movement-based “friendly” guidance workshops that were developed by Ludic Collective. UFGs began with a Trilogy project, themed around the concept of embodying the relation between ourselves and the other, in three stages: 1. PLANT-HUMAN; 2. ANIMAL-HUMAN, 3. HUMAN-HUMAN. Part 1. Planthuman specifically asks: what does it mean for a human to enter in relation with a plant (and, by entering into relation, to redefine oneself)? What perceptual shifts of self and Other are required in the attempt of achieving this? How do we overlay plant qualia over human qualia, and what kinds of morphing organisms could take place after this? Can we talk of dehumanising?
Our purpose is not to show a final answer to the above questions, as marking a fixed point of view is not a rich process for us. We want to simply tackle those questions through the somatic practice itself, and through the experiences of the people that are undergoing this practice.
