COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS is a tangible performative experience and sensorial care-experiment, shaped by the decisions and touch of the audience and participants in simple, mostly non-verbal scores. This project is a collaboration of the MINDMACHINE and Pop-Up-Praxis weaving together Neuroscience, Art and Bodywork.

The Vision

In a world of tension, internal processes can be measured and mapped via EEG-brainwaves, ECG-heartrates and touch sensors. Amongst different bodywork techniques – Gua Sha is a simple method to move and unblock muscular and fascial tension via breaking cells and mapping the body in action.

Welcome to our playground, exploring the landscape beneath our skin and our collective nervous system.

The Performance

From the performance stage of a pop-up praxis the individual mind and internal process during a critical wellness session will be hacked and influenced by the collective. The audience will intervene in simple scores with their placement and movement but also touch in space. The collective actions influence the visual- and soundscape, touching common and personal wounds and care.

Cameras, the Mindmachine, touch sensors and sound mappings radiate intimacy and tactility into the space, permeating a common organic-mechanical care creature into the laboratory/event space. This sensorial process is aiming to reveal what is happening under our skin, offering a common energetic orientation and mapping into space.

This performance intervention questions how we connect to each other, how we consent to each other, and how we form belongings.