A PERCEPTUAL ZONE | 1 OCT 2025 - 25 OCT 2025

Proposition is honoured to announce A Perceptual Zone — a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.

Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animals and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body.  In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout the month, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin will offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance within the galleries. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome will initiate the month, holding public somatic workshops rooted in the potentials of collective embodied power while building towards a Saturday evening performance-in-progress centred within ecologies of liveness, risk, care, and access. 

For the second week in Gallery I, Nicol Vizioli and Nissa Nishikawa will present a series of 12 C-Type photographs extended from handmade black and white fibre darkroom prints sourced from their ongoing collaboration of dance-journeys in open-air spaces. In Gallery II, during this same week, a film by Kapila Venu titled Yakshi will be screened on continuous rotation. The film holds image, landscape, sound and character from the folklore of Kerala. There will be a finissage on the Saturday evening with Vizioli and Nishikawa present to discuss their processes.

Lewis Walker will activate the galleries in the third week with open workshops focused on research and development into deeper states of consciousness, encompassing rituals of shared energy and expression. On Saturday evening, they will exhibit the culmination of the week's work for all to experience and attend.

In the fourth week Yen-Chin Lin will be offering three improvisational movement workshops open to everyone, regardless of dance experience. Her pedagogical practice aims to deepen awareness through the connection of body and emotions. This will also be extended to a final Saturday evening public sharing session.  

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space for moving together and witnessing, a centre where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

Curated by Nissa Nishikawa