Small Door, Big Universe

Application summary

In November and December 2023 we found ourselves in individual residencies together at SAARI, artists with diverse backgrounds and even more diverse practices. We found a deep connection, opened through collective and individual vulnerabilities, this helped form an immense energy and good will between us. We learnt how to live well together, in joy and complexity, with pleasure and passion. This undeniable collective energy shouldn’t be thrown away or wasted but we believe it should be channeled into a new collective artistic practice. Through this residency will further explore these collective connections through a new strategy of sharing practices, finding ways of sharing the landscape and inviting audiences into a radical care and hospitality - amplifying and sharing this good energies, changing the world through infectious joy. Our practices range from Composition, Theatre, Film Making, Performance, Circus, Dance, Dramaturgy, experimental performance and linguistics. A complex array of powerful tools and practices are individually held which we hope to redistribute skills between us as a first step in making a collective artistic practice and identity. SAARI summer residency becomes our laboratory, a space for us to experiment with our practices, be playful and harvest more of this collective power energies as we transform from individual artists into a collective.