Night Season: Part 2
An exploration of night time navigation.
Following on from Tool/Toy Project’s research in Great Yarmouth, we undertook a 10 day teaching residency in Lithuania exploring themes of night time navigation and landscape.
Bone-dry staffs and ancient purlins were gathered from the eaves of barns and sanded to expose the pale and cracked surfaces beneath.
These were distributed and used as guides on a processional night time dérive. As we walked, we marked positions deemed as significant. From place to place, interpretations of their ‘significance’ shifted. From immediate sensory observations, to markers of memory and emotion. Dyed using pigments brewed from the plants growing at their bases,they stood as notations of our encounters to cure under the sun and the moon.
On the final day the markers were collected again to be raised together as a memorial - koplytstulpis - a map for those who know how to read it.
This project is currently a work in progress, due to be exhibited and performed as part of the ‘Duologues’ exhibition in The Cut, Halesworth, in 2023.