Correspondences - Socrates Sculpture Park

Conceived by multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya and performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble, ‘Correspondences’ is a sculpture installation and performance that engages with questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence.

In ‘Correspondences,’ individual performers wearing gas masks are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. As the performers repeatedly try to stand atop the sand, machines attached to the chambers intermittently trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to sink back down to the ground. The sand blasts continuously occur in the chambers, even in the absence of a performer.

‘Correspondences’ is intended as a poetic microcosm in which performers, observers, machines, and natural elements of the Park can mingle in new and unexpected ways. Some of the generative questions informing the work include: How do we cope with uncertainty? What happens to our bodies when we encounter the unknown? And how are we reshaping environmental ethics?