at the edge of connection

This new publication by artist and choreographer Clarinde Wesselink serves as a roadmap for the reader, containing instructions, methods for exploration, and reflections on how we sense, move through, and inhabit a place. It features essays intended to amplify imagination, and to support research and experimentation into how we are entangled with our everyday environments.

“By observing the unique ways lichens make contact with their surroundings, I began to reflect on how I, too, interact with the world. Writing became a crucial tool, helping me understand the subtle differences in how I engage physically with things, offering language as a kind of road map for my body to navigate through new awareness. Because every word can be felt in the body.”

As a reader, you can apply the instructions in a playful way during daily activities, allowing new ideas and connections to emerge. The book can also be used by two or more people, side by side, collaboratively, or as part of a specific process in which the connection plays an active role.

The publication is one half of the project at the edge of connection, complemented by an installation - performance series.