Echoes from a ‘Mostly Empty Space’

Description

An account of the performative work 'Mostly Empty Space' by Yardina Kurulkar
The account explores how our engagement with the filmed event can be understood as much a narrative of reacquaintance with our breathing bodies as a retracing of Yardina’s socio-historic familial lines and proposes how one can inform the other.
In many oral traditions, language is considered less a human possession than a property of the animate earth, where words are not fixed into alphabetised index but shaped by the air carrying sound to each other, as ‘the unseen medium of exchange’(Abram:2019). Our participation with this telluric world is renewed by the telling of our own stories, not isolated, abstracted tales but by taking part in this ‘thicket of meaning’, recognising the air as already full of stories told by other creatures, plants, rivers and winds from the hustle of grass to the laughter of swaying trees.

Period	1 Sept 2025
Degree of Recognition	International