Live performance between Yingmei Duan and Johannes Zits

《附体自然》是段英梅与约翰尼斯·日茨在布伦瑞克合作的艺术项目，时间长达三周。

两位艺术 家每天都会沉浸于不同的自然风貌，尝试着用他们的身体同大自然进行交流，溯求自身与自然的 关系。《附体自然》项目是由约翰尼斯·日茨发起，这项艺术同他多年来的作品一脉相承。《附体 自然》着眼于文化因素和社会因素对我们身体的影响。在布伦瑞克，英梅和约翰尼斯的创作主要 基于他们对“自然”的看法以及双方与自然的互动。表演的理念在于将“行为者”的概念延伸， 而表演的主体不单单是艺术家的身体，还包括大自然的“身体”。

同时，在这项作品中，大自然 的“身体”是其中的一个行为者，而不是一个被动的道具或背景，更不是为人创造的仙境。

Embodying Nature in Braunschweig is a three-week collaborative performance project between Yingmei Duan and Johannes Zits. For this work in Braunschweig, they meet every day outside in nature in different types of landscapes, and try to use their bodies to communicate and investigate relationships between themselves and nature.

Initiated by Johannes Zits, Embodying Nature (like a great deal of his work through the years) focuses on the cultural and social forces that act upon the body. In Braunschweig, Duan and Zits create work that is based on their interaction and address some of their attitudes towards “nature”. The performance aims to extend the notion of the performer from their own bodies, to include the “body” of nature itself. Considering nature as a body and as a participant ensures it cannot be construed as a passive prop or backdrop; nor adored and fixed in the realm of the sublime.

Thanks very much for the generous support from Kulturinstitut Braunschweig in Germany