Clarinde Wesselink is a Dutch movement artist. Concepts of emptying, forgetting, and ‘inter-being’ are reflected in her somatic performances and choreographies. After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, she developed her own movement methodology. Wesselink’s work explores the possibility of creating choreographies in co-creation with various living beings, such as lizards, bees, and beetles that navigate in the dark using the position of the stars. She seeks to understand what a movement language between us and other entities would look like. As she follows the rhythms and movements of non-human entities, her work becomes intertwined with the choreographies of the earth.
In the photographic works 'The Garden' athletes are no longer in control over their bodies and environment, but have become parts in a choreography, along with the water and the soil.