What does walking/moving slow, r e a l l y s l o w, alongside others, in a public and familiar place open in your perception… of your embodied self, of your relationship to a group, and in your experience of that place?
What does this subtle, slow action, open-up and do to the public space?
Through multiple iterations, Parenthesis explores these questions as a practice-based study, using group slow-walking as its primary medium.
Breathe in—out
Place yourself in your neutral position.
Pour all your weight on the surface underneath you. All the way. Heavy.
Slowly activate your body.
Peel your weight off from the ground.
inch by inch
inch by inch
Hold,
Suspend yourself there…
Attend your body in-between steps …
Can you perceive,
who is around?
Who, what is…
m i s s i n g ?
a b s e n t ?
f o r g o t t e n ?
e r a s e d ?
Repeat this process...
