Earthwomb

Ritual— a tool that nurtures entanglement

Earthwomb
Work is displayed as a 2-channel projection on loop
30 minute performance,
“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” by the Ink Spots
2019
Seydifjordur, iceland

Earthwomb considers how we can create meaningful interactions with land and sow deeper relationships with the Earth. Can engagement with the ground generate and renew severed connections?

The two-channel video and performance, Earthworb explores these questions. Played to the ghostly lullaby of “I Dont Want to Set the World on Fire” by the Ink Spots, the work references a child in a womb and weaves this intimate relationship into the surrounding fjord. The work explores the ground’s ability to heal, protect, and sustain, while exposing our fragile and vulnerable interdependence with Earth.

Earthwomb

Listen to the plants sleep.
They don’t mind the cold.
Sink into Silence and the world comes alive, as honey in a tree.
I dream I am the size of a pebble or a seed.
To explore their infinity— in my house that is round as Ymir’s skull.

I am killer.

Warm and empty in my mother’s womb.
Cracking to pieces we are still.
Glued together by the space between them,
the space that once held them together,
the space between that broke inside them.
That broke inside them. The water broke inside them.
To pieces into dew.

– Isenberg, 2020

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