In her current and ongoing research, Body as a sonic landscape, Mads Marone wants to investigate the
body as a landscape, paisaje, a terrain appears and links the body to ecological models.
My research draws on feminist- Actionism, Fluxus, Dada, Happenings, vital materialism, and ritual studies, in order to access sensorial experiential exercises grounded in meditation and in being rooted in the body, ie, ‘thinking with and through the body is not to think about it.’ By seeing the body as a natural material, such as earth, the body becomes land, and is symbolically engaged in ritualistic burial practices, pre-cremation and mummification, which progress through queer-subtexts in a refreshingly light and humoristic manner. Body is matter and a site of memory in the process: scars, tattoos, beauty marks, and residues become temporal markers that reveal layered collective narratives, compelling both performers and spectators to confront and traverse corporeal forces of emotion, expressing what lies beneath language and rationality, an undoing of logic. It is both a social and political practice in that it makes the public become aware of their bodies and feel them not only on a literal level, in terms of memory and corporality but also on a metaphorical and phenomenological level. Both make them aware of political and social violences, but also of memory : collective and individual.
