Kinaesthetic audio herbarium

Herbarium aims for a collection that retains samples of plants for taxonomic classification. Fern Orchestra’s performance Vox Herbārium verifies the senses of the plants by collecting the information they transmit and transforming it into a stage-like form where the dancer ́s kinaesthetic intelligence is combined with the song of plants. The orchestra consists of plants from the University of Turku’s botanical garden. Information transmitted by the sensors attached to the plants is converted to sound – the performance defines plants taxonomically through sound and movement.

The world and nature around us are part of a larger surface that we strive to regulate and shape. Do we dare to reach out to the fifth dimension, which we do not yet understand, where time and space are overcome by a connection that may be small and snuggled?

The world can be organised – and is organised – into various conceptual structures that describe it. People have a need to arrange things into categories and to parse them into abstract patterns. One of the classification systems people make up is the way Vox Herbārium organizes a certain limited part of the world – a certain group of plants in their particular surroundings.

Working Group

Collaborators

The Turku University Botanical Garden
Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland
Turku City Theatre