Matrix Botanica touches upon the issue that all people are indigenous from somewhere and belonging - alongside all other life forms - to the Earth. In the video the Voice of Nature reflects upon us humans. She explains how she sees us and the many misunderstandings and interpretations which are caused by Western philosophical frame-work, especially the absurd construction of placing human identity “outside” nature. Nature as the protagonist, becomes a character with personhood, one who the viewer can identify with. Through music the listener can feed in to the image and identity of Nature. The narrative of the video is completely based on an experience on the psychedelic medicine called Ayahuasca.
Matrix Botanica re-shapes contemporary human/plant/animal rituals in a desacralized global society. Trying to remake relations with nature on the basis of recognising them not as “things” but as creative, self-directed, originative others. To care for things such as trees, rivers, forests, grasses and mountains as friends is a commitment everybody will grow from. While disbanding human identity as only minimally and accidentally connected to the earth, a ritual is created in which “re-earthing” is used for Modern individuals to intuitively gain a stronger eco-centric perspective in a more connected universe.
Matrix Botanica has been conceived as performance and video work