Performance & multimedia installation presented at Kunst & Zwalm, Belgium. Curated by Nadine & Manoeuvre (August-September 2023)
Single channel full HD video with voice-over, 16:9, stereo, 9:16 min loop
Sound design/technology: Daniel Konar
Botanical advice: Marc Libert (Ghent University Botanical Garden)
Documentation: Elien Ronse
Produced in collaboration with Manoeuvre
Weaving stories of otherness and periphery with the maritime history between Europe and Asia, Tsuchimoto experiments with "dancing" with Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) — a herbaceous annual from the Himalayas introduced to English gardens in the 19th century, now considered an invasive species across much of Europe.
The artist's breath and body motion, alongside the plants' own movements, are digitally tracked and mapped to geometric transformations in a digital drawing, generating moiré patterns that resemble water surfaces. These patterns — typically considered undesirable, arising when one repetitive structure is placed over another — become the work's central visual language. The moving images are projected onto silk organza fabric, slowly and unintentionally stitched by collaborators in Manoeuvre.
After we escaped from the garden from being objects and products we returned back to the process of diving into the blurry following our own wills becoming verbs, rather than nouns — pay attention to the temperature of lukewarm water, welcome becoming mushy and soggy, the texture of Love.
