Zden Brungot Svíteková & Napsugár Trömböczky on Vigil Custody: What Can Stones Teach Us About Humanity?
Dance relies on the human body – for it may be the most anthropocentric of all art forms. Yet through the body, we are connected to our environment – people and the entire geosphere. How can we simply be with that? How can we transcend human self-centeredness in aesthetics and ethics? The project Vigil Custody explores the question of “how to be” – both physically and intellectually, through art, and the science of geology. In this conversation, Zden Brungot Svíteková (Ostružina, SK/CZ) and Napsugár Trömböczky (SVUNG, HU) traverse a multilayered landscape of reflections on the material intelligence of bodies – both stone and human – on their mysteriously intimate kinship, and on the methods and language of art and science that sensitises us to that.
