"the body is a landscape, and landscape is a body." eiko otake

we detected scents on the route of eiko otake, in her two-day workshop in atlanta, which took place on peachtree street. "body in places" is the omnibus title of eiko's first solo project, and the first foray into exploring her unique and riveting theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound, in non-traditional spaces. eiko's body was as part of the landscape (including olfactory - smellscape) which dictated the algorithm for the composition of our formula. workshop and eiko's "walks" are based on breathing and dramatic physical contact with space. and it was important for us to participate in its workshop as well, in order to adopt techniques (meditative in a sense) of breathing for active sniffing and smell hunting. 

eiko's works in public and unexpected spaces call for a conscious attitude to the resources of the planet, loneliness, ocean, radiation, etc. thanks to her improvisation with the plants and flowers, we got a petal from the tulip, which she chewed (falling on a flower bed next to the business center building). this prompted us to dive into the section of floriography (the language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. and we were especially interested in hanakotoba (花言葉), a japanese form of the language of flowers, where plants were given codes and passwords. two days in a row, eiko "ate" the red tulips, which means fame/charity/trust (chūrippu, チューリップ). 

the scent eiko was softly presented in the early spring of 2018.

eiko's residency in atlanta at tanz farm is made possible in part with support from the japan foundation, new york, and its performing arts japan program.