cloud museum

“Clouds are ungraspable, ephemeral and the first drawings ever made on this earth. I think clouds played a crucial role in the development of symbolic representation of the world in early human days, as they are the embodiment of representation floating above our terrestrial world. How can a cloud have the shape of a bunny? To me clouds are the frontal cortex of planet earth.

Cloud Museum is rooted in collective intuition, physical time perception and the need to truly experience what it means being apart of a belief system, not from its mear activation and production but from it’s conception as a living and breathing cloud that is brought to life by many.

These are some of the question that came up as the work was being conceived:
-can we become a cloud in order to reach a pre conceptual and ephemeral perception of the world?
-can we make this perception a physical language instead of a verbal one?
-can we organize what is unpredictable?

When in the need to understand a mystery such as clouds in the sky, I see dance as the only vehicle, because instead of representing, it is transforming molecules and atoms from within and re-arranging them all around by movement. Movement is the origin of the cosmos.

The 25 suits where designed to interconnect in order to condense into a cloud and eventually they break apart into drops that fit on the palm of a hand. While the the triangle on their heads allow the contemplation of silence it also acts as a musical instrument that adds an element of synesthesia and harmony to the cloud.

Hopefully, in the coming years Cloud Museum will continue to be a tool that invokes collective perception and allows us to contemplate until we become”

This work was possible with the warmth heart of choreographer Carl Flink and the Minnesota School of Dance students. Thank you Carl !