I have been attending artist and filmmaker Tereza Stehlikova’s Sensory workshops and this month contributed an experimental session of sugar metamorphics – a sensory exploration of the many forms that sugar takes, and it’s transformative properties upon history, culture, our bodies and our future.
I also made some sugar work as part of her performance event Journey to the Interior, a multi-sensory, participatory performance and feast, inspired by George Bellas Greenough, a geologist and a founder of the Geological Society London, as well as Jules Verne’s story the Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The performance happens in the context of Open Senses Weekend, a London wide festival dedicated to the senses, as well as Wormwood project, a 100 day residency at Dissenters Gallery, in collaboration with poet Steven J Fowler.
Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 21st May, 2017
Here is video footage of some of Tereza’s series of workshops leading up to Journey to the Interior, including Sugar Metamorphics. The filming and edit by Nevra Topcu.
