Under my Feet
and Inside my Head
As an exercise into the lifeworld of the earthworm and the auditory exploration of marking movement and labor, Under my feet and inside my head, is greatly inspired by traditional connotations of land as described by Robert Macfarlane in his text Underland as “a place of dirt, mortality and brutal labor.”
The work implies an ontological flattening between the subject and the living beings within the vessel through a shared experience of time. The audio component, which is a live feed from inside the soil, allows for an individual and intimate experience with the earthworms residing within as their labor along with the technological assistance, allow for the cycle of growth to continue. The binaural headphones allow for a fluidity between barriers of plexiglass, skin, language, species and scale, providing a corporeal connection to soil from under our feet to eventually, inside our heads.
The work implies an ontological flattening between the subject and the living beings within the vessel through a shared experience of time. The audio component, which is a live feed from inside the soil, allows for an individual and intimate experience with the earthworms residing within as their labor along with the technological assistance, allow for the cycle of growth to continue. The binaural headphones allow for a fluidity between barriers of plexiglass, skin, language, species and scale, providing a corporeal connection to soil from under our feet to eventually, inside our heads.