Whilst the storm roars, every branch and twig is bent to its limit, threatened to break but amazes with its flexibility and stubbornness, and yet indifferent to the outcome. The trees fasten their grip, sucking up nutrients and moisture from the underground. When cropped and impoverished, threatened on its survival, the autopoiesis response causes even more leaves, fruits and seeds. This is the simple and delicate, yet rough and unsentimental…
The Sister grew up as orphans in the Northern hemisphere during the crisis. In the spaces-in-between of urban and rural environments she grew up to be what she is today – the headmistress of Sisters Academy. Formed by who and what she met as she was wandering – And not at least by her continuous search and connection to ‘the source’. The source that kept the sisters alive when the…
[halfcolumn] [/halfcolumn] [halfcolumn] Under a name that hides her and a veil that covers her, she is the profoundly obscure point toward which art and desire, death and night, seem to tend.’ – dear Blanchot, I’m turning and turning, but she always disappears, help me unveil her, or is she the Eurydice that only our memory can bring to life again? [/halfcolumn]
Sisters Academy is research-based. Sisters Hope develops new art-based research methods to collect data on each manifested academy. These methods allows us to transport data out of the sensuous experiment while the participants are in the sensuous and poetic mode which it is the ambition to activate during the academy. It is the development of a new methodological and analytical tool that operates from within while it transports data out….
Sisters staff. The Poetic Self is a performance-methodology that we have created and use in the work of Sisters Hope here-within when we manifest Sisters Academy. It represents a very important and essential part of our specific and uniquely developed method. We propose that The Poetic Self is something that we unfold in between our everyday-self and the otherworldly, sensuous universes that we create in our imagination and embody while…
