Approaching the Bijloke campus as a multispecies assemblage, the project understands the environment we live in as a communal effort of interacting human and other-than-human actors whose entangled activities form the currents that push the continuous unfolding of the world forward – the worlding of the world is always a becoming-with. To acknowledge this reality, we need to problematize our anthropocentric modes of relating while recognizing that we can never fully step outside of our own embodied and technologically mediated ways of engagement. To make this tension productive we artistically appropriate the concept of Umwelt to develop the notion of ‘intermediate zones’: staged, unstable and situated moments of proximity in which other-than-human realities condition the encounter and temporarily decenter the ‘human’ in our own embodied experience. To stage and inhabit these intermediate zones, we develop ritualized engagements and installations as sites of temporally bound embodied encounters, while critically interrogating the role of technological mediation in conditioning them. The project will result in these engagements and installations alongside the residues, traces and practices that emerge from them, offering only partial accounts of what happened.
