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Wet[scape] explores the intricate relationship between humans and peatlands. It features a large-scale floor piece composed of raw sheep wool and water. Through the performers’ physical interaction with the wool, water is released. Trials suggest that sheep wool has the potential to be used as an environmental conservation method to restore damaged peatlands. Wool is thereby used to build logs, giving structure to the bog and allowing plant species to re-establish on bare peat.
The raw material is explored through slow, static movements, and moments of rest. The wool contains an archive of dried seeds, grasses, and other organic material. Lanolin gives the wool a waxy feel and a distinctive smell. The material itself is alive - it transforms and shrinks over the course of the exhibition, while the wool's soaked fibres interlace through repeated bodily interaction.
With special thanks to The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Amberwood Animal Sanctuary, and Bioarche Rocherbauer for their generous donation of sheep wool.
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Performers: Maite Dárdano & Lenz Farkas
Photography: Susanne Garber
Videography: Caroline Vitzthum