OCEAN TONGUE: a workshop on the shoreline, exploring the poetics of the ocean and its beings through ecological land-movement practices, butoh, and sensorial theatre.
Tap into ancient body memory to awaken liquid intelligence and become oceanic—to kinship with more-than-human oceanic beings.

Day 1: OCEAN TONGUE WORKSHOP
We will engage in guided scores, solo and group experiments, and site-responsive improvisations. Developing our sensorial imagination at the land-sea interface. We will tap into the liquid intelligence of our body, grow crustacean limbs, explore sensitivity of marine life and dreaming of aquatic body.  We will work with synesthetic practices, translating sensual experience into movement, preparing sensorial landscapes and interactions, assembling, sculpting oceanic limbs and exoskeletal forms.
13.10 / 11am-5pm day workshop on the coast
Location:  Ayrmer Cove, South Devon
We will send coordinates to our meeting prior to the date.

Cost: 60 gbp *including sculptural materials


Day 2: OCEAN TONGUE JAM
We will meet in studio for two hours of open Play/Jam. With sculptural props and structures we will evoke aquatic environment and facilitate transitioning into oceanic organisms.
The Jam will be open to public to join us in improvisation and play.
Soundscapes will be supported by Keiko Yamamoto.
15.10 / 18:00 - 20:00 Ocean Tongue Jam
Location: STUDIO 12, Town Mill Building, Mardle Way industrial estate, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0AG.
Cost: on Donation (5-10gbp sliding scale)
*Jam participants are welcome to remain observers.
To register please send email to humanclaycic@gmail.com


Anna Kushnerova
Anna Kushnerova is a performance, visual artist, filmmaker, and director of Human Clay CIC, a Devon based community interest company working at the intersection of performance, ecology, and cultural heritage. Her work weaves movement, ritual, and material culture: sculpture and installation, with research grounded in deep ecology, animism, and speculative ethnography.
Trained in Butoh, social theatre, and somatic research, Anna develops site-responsive projects that invite participants into imaginative and symbolic exploration. She has worked with people of all ages and backgrounds, facilitating workshops and creative processes that reconnect communities with the poetic and subconscious dimensions of experience.

Zoë Binetti
www.zozotransistor.com
Zoë Binetti, aka zozo Transistor creates embodied interfaces between concert, installation and performance.
She holds an MA Contemporary Arts Practice from the Bern University of the Arts (HKB Switzerland), has been trained in music improvisation by grammy award winning cellist David Darling and has been educated internationally in Butoh, Physical Theatre, and Shiatsu therapy.
Starting with an artist residency at pIAR, Kumasi Ghana in 2021, Zoë has embarked on an artistic research in Sensorial Orchestration, resulting in zozoTransistor creating various polysensual experiences at an intersection between concert, performance and installation.        
Her second album, an experimental audio documentation of her performance Water Tekno, will be released in November 2025 with Prefermusic Label.