weathering
Nida Art Colony
Lithuania 17-28 March, 2025
“Dynamics of the In-between”
Study Course by ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts (Photography, Animation, and Media Art)
Only when human bodies fully embrace both their internal sensations and the external environment—when they sync with these different rhythms—can they generate a new movement or a fresh expression of existence.
Photo by Malak Bayramli 
Photo by Malak Bayramli
Photo by Malak Bayramli
Weathering refers to the continuous influence of weather patterns on ecosystems and organisms. It also reflects how bodies adapt to and endure a condition and a way of being in relation. Weathering is to loosen the boundaries of the singular self and respond to the collective‘s urgent calls. It is an act of full presence within the weight of the now, an attunement to what surrounds. Weathering requires us to tune in—to engage in intuitive, situated gestures. It is a mode of embodiment grounded in three conditions of improvisation: observation, reflexivity, and becoming—a triad of interweaving processes through which new relations and meanings emerge. To play with these conditions, the dancer Min Tanaka established ‚Body Weather‘, a comprehensive performance training inspired by Butoh. Tanaka understands a body as a constantly shifting entity that resists clarity. In his practice, he is training a sensory breathing, detailed, ‚weak‘ body—not in the sense of fragility, but in its openness to sensation, to breath, to fantasy and affect. A body with both an inside and an outside, a body that delivers itself to experience. (Tanaka, 2000) Weathering becomes a medium through internal sensations and its external environment, the atmosphere in which one can learn, respond, and transform.