Photo by Renae Shadler

It also emerged from my experience of a sound bath with large silver gongs played by yoga & gong master Kay Karl. I’m curious to expand the effect of the gongs’ vibrations on the cells & fluids of the body into the surrounding environment through movement. Could an immersive space be created, in which a non-dualistic reality could be physically experienced, & boundaries between bodies, between bodies & space, between performers & audience members, & boundaries between different ways of reading a movement, could be dissolved?

I am also interested in extending the question of interconnectedness to the emergence of “meaning”. That is, the associations that images, constellations, relationships of bodies in space evoke in an observer – & whether they can ever exist independently of the observer’s cultural background.

In this way, I am interested in researching the idea of non-dualism on both a physical level, as well as a kind of collective consciousness which is becoming, by physical & technological means, more & more global, somewhere between the idea of a “hive mind” facilitated by the internet, & archaic rituals such as gong baths that create a collective state.

Composer

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)