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— BODIES OF THE FUTURE: 01: SENSRORY WALK
— sensory walk (test)
— come, memory
— dancer’s slab
— flowers
— the figure of a woman
— card carrying saint
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Bodies of the Future: 01: Sensory Walk, 2026,participatory event, Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Rotterdam, NL
Bodies of the Future: 01: Sensory Walk was held on June 20, 2026, the first of two participatory events developing an ongoing feminist sci-fi (SF) project. Participants moved through the landscape of Brienenoord island wearing handmade sculptural components — contact mic gloves, frog-footprint silicone shoes, and polarized sunglasses set with porcelain elements.
The wearables function as speculative tools: each introduces a minor bodily or perceptual shift, asking participants to inhabit the landscape differently and to sit with a question of evolutionary opportunity — what the body becomes when the world it evolved with is ending. Participants worked as agents within the project's questions rather than an audience to them.
Building on a test event held in October 2025 with Platform DIS in Nijmegen, Sensory Walk extends the project's method of embodied world-building through modest, physical interventions. Within the larger 16mm film project, it forms part of a braid of scripted, documentary, and participatory material — a speculative inquiry into feminist, post-patriarchal, post-capitalist futures.
READ: Bodies of the Future: 01: Sensory Walk collective reading text
Thank you to Maurice Specht/Buitenplaats Brienenoord,Rotterdam and Wouter Engelbart/Platform DIS, Nijmegen for supporting this work and research.
Thank you to my dear Bergur Anderson, Yoana Buzova, Folke Janssen and Kunstinstituut Melly for helping bring the works to life.
Photos Jake Caleb
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