DIGITAL PERMACULTURE (2023)
Rebecca Douglass & Tasha Hess-Neustadt
commission for imKONSTALL Digital Gallery / Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel, Sweden
Digital Permaculture is an immersive video work incorporating dance, poetry, voice, & digital intervention. It’s a continuation of a shared artistic practice & an interest in the crossing of lexicons when talking about bodies in natural vs. digital spaces through eco-glitch feminist perspectives.
Through World Building practice, desires & fantasies for a new world are fed into a co-writing score & they begin to manifest. The boundaries between physical & digital blur. A typed script/archive of the world building process unravels. A digital world is born from embodied/danced imagination, morphed environments & the collation/fabrication of stock footage from the infinite content bank of the post-internet, hyper-aestheticised online space.
Natural imagery is taken from the surrounding area, blending real & digital. Inspired by geographical placement, Digital Permaculture has absorbed the nature & wildlife of Moskosel.
Rebecca Douglass & Tasha Hess-Neustadt - concept, performance, camera, editing
Rebecca Douglass - sound
comissioned by Northern Sustainable Futures, funded by Kulturrådet- Swedish Arts Council and Arvidsjaur Municipality
Thanks to Jake Burgess and Louis Caspar Schmitt for technological assistance!
