work in progress

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Seaing/Hereing started as an artist film and evolved into an audiovisual and performance duo (Patrycja Loranc & Sam Johnson).

 

The work explores sensory and emotional connections to the artists’ new home among the South West landscapes and seascapes, from a neurodivergent perspective of heightened and altered audio-visual experience. Experimenting with moving image, voice, found sound and music, it rediscovers relationships with nature, objects, and spaces, drawing from Merleau - Ponty's phenomenology, sensory contexts of neurodiversity, as well as ideas around interconnectivity inspired by David Abram and Terrence McKenna. 

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Sam and Patrycja’s collaborative process of gathering materials in altered states of intense sensory absorption, and editing within experimental structures, draws on an interplay of their neurodivergent perception with avant-garde, poetic, and structural flicker film.  

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The soundtracks are created solely from modified field recordings on the sites of filming, and explore relationships with nature, landscapes, and objects which we form through our senses, beyond logical and linear thought. 

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Seaing/Hereing has so far presented expanded cinema performances at SOAK Live Art and Elevation Film Festival, and a film photography exhibition with audio at The Talk Shop.​