In The Belly of The Beast: In separation of “the human” and “the animal,” ‘In The Belly of The Beast’ explores the threshold where our self-awareness transforms into a selfless experience. In the vastness of nature, two worlds intersect: The Caged and The Wild, a film crew and the animal. The question we encounter: How does our inner animal exist in this spiritually, ecologically, and socially exhausted world?

In language the word Beast is historacly connected with words as brutallity, violence, filthand dirtyness. Terms that we, as humans, connect with animality and often use to distance ourselves. The word Beast is other, it’s different, it’s “not me”. When we distance ourselves from our animalistic behaviours, we distance ourselves from humanity, from honesty, from feeling, from expressing and from being. For me, ‘The Beast’ in this society is the systematic. The thought trough ways of opression. Created normativity, social conducts and the capatalistic way of living. I seperate this term from The Animal. The Animal is you, the real you. That small voice that’s connected to all, to nature, to everything undefined and everything outside of your name, age, job, status, ego etcetera. In search for what is left of our Animal we have to find ways of creating apart from paved ways. These paved ways often descend from retorical and practical solutions that serve capatalistic values as money, time, goal and profit.

In The Belly of The Beast is the result of intuition-led experiments that explore the question: What remains of the Inner Animal in our spiritually, ecologically, and socially pollted society?

With experiments that are multidisciplinairy the installation has become an immersive interdisciplinary that reframes audio, image, movement and speech.

With this installation we invite the public to turn towards their body and search for inner meaning that counteracts with the rationalised structures we currently live in.