Sensing Landscapes

About

THE PROJECT

SENSING LANDSCAPES is a creative collaboration between movement and textile artists - Felicitas Thomas and Fanni Fábián. The duo is designing performances, installations and workshops where material and movement become part of the same vocabulary.

SENSING LANDSCAPES is a project that creates an interactive experimental playground provoking the visitor to take action, to rethink, to experience or simply to have fun. It is designed to expose interaction and build awareness of our senses beyond the visual. The space is curated with a multidimensional apparatus to trigger the spectator to catch the moment and constantly transform it to an irreproducible happening. The landscape offers an eternal possibility of change and an ever-unique manifestation of the presence.

SENSING LANDSCAPES invites people to build new connections and tear down old ones. The interactive textile sculptures stimulate sensation of material and even further curates spaces where multiple individualities can coexist and collaborate with each other.

The project situates movement, textile and sound in the same space, merging these three mediums into a single volume.

THE PERFORMANCE

SENSING LANDSCAPES performances involve a single blindfolded performer in an movement-driven multichannel interactive fiber art and sound environment. The performer communicates their movement to the modular sculptures that are operating as sensors. This two-way interactive dialogue creates a completely unique performance every time.

THE ARTISTS

Felicitas

Felicitas Thomas is a multidisciplinary artist and therapist who is strongly influenced by dance and movement in general. Her practice spans the world of dance, movement, social practice and spatial practice - unifying these worlds into one cohesive artistic language.

In 2019 she founded the artistic concept MOVEMENT UNLIMITED, which connects all imaginable and non-imaginable possibilities of expression and research without any limitations. It is about not only having an idea, but also about living the idea and seeing where it takes you - it is art, to simply be doing it - it is a concept to create creative spaces that are accessible for everyone beyond gatekeeping or prestige.

In her projects she is constantly facing the question:

How can I make art more integrative, interactive and accessible?

https://www.movementunlimited.de/

https://www.instagram.com/movement_unlimited_berlin/

Fanni

Fanni Fábián is a fiber artist, influenced by manual ways of constructing materials. In her work traditional techniques elevate to reflect contemporary concerns. The rope itself is the main red thread, emphasizing the opposites of connection and disconnection, restriction and extension.

Focusing on the entire life cycle and supply chain of textiles, she aims to create sustainable art. 

She creates accessible pieces, inviting her audience to experience touch, proximity and intimacy.

https://nuff-textile.myshopify.com/

https://www.instagram.com/fabianfanna/