BIOME (2023)

Burrinja Climate Change Biennale / National Sustainable Living Festival

Dancers: Hadassah Wallis, Twyla Wulantuya, Maika Razon, Niki Schild

Vocalists: Khyaal vocal ensemble - Aarti Jadu, Aurora Darby, Mel Taylor, Siobhan Housden

Soft sculpture artist: Louisa Magrics.

Produced with support from Yarra Ranges Council and the Belgrave Food Garden

Photos: Laki Sideris

Video/audio recording: Jordy Scott & Aaron Morrison

BIOME is a neo-ritual performance centring the microbial ecosystem of soil. In this open-air experiment, vocalists interweave with dancers manipulating a biomorphic geometric sculpture. Together, they invite spectators into a collaborative unearthing of potentials for connectivity, patterning and influence. The work follows the connective tissues linking micro and macro biomes, interspecies action, and how these elements embed resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity in local systems. It explores the creation of material anchor points for these connections and activates participation in the continually unfolding processes of decomposition, cycling and balancing that support life on earth.