In CAMPFIRE, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis take the spectators on stage, where they are immersed in a bath of sound and light.
We listen in on a conversation that takes place under strange stars, and traverse different environments — or is it the same space, but experienced differently each time?
Between the field of vision of a shrimp, the wandering arms of an octopus, and the inside of a womb, a field of perspectives opens up. Millennia-old animal paintings, firing synapses, and out-of-body experiences pass by as attempts to think beyond human consciousness.
Can we imagine how bodies different from our own perceive the world?
CAMPFIRE stems from a pulse with no body a sun with no sky, a project that was inspired by the birth of Ezra and Bosse’s daughter Nori in January 2024, and by Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.
I once dreamed that I was a traveler
who had reached the end of the world.
In my dream, I stuck my head
through the Earth’s atmosphere
and I was overwhelmed with joy.
Beyond the atmosphere,
I could directly see
the intricate workings of the cosmos.
Sometimes
I imagine my body as an atmosphere
and the inside of my skull
as a night sky
a medium
a filter.
If only I could see through the sky
to see what is really there…
