After attending multiple political rallies and protests, I desired a quiet completely nonverbal form of advocacy. That desire became “Our Polarizing Landscape”, an interactive experience between two participants, active witnesses, and nine politicized objects to foster a nonverbal intersectional political dialogue. Positioned together at one vantage point, the participants take turns selecting, moving, and placing one object at a time in the space. When all nine objects are placed, the two participants place themselves in their landscape. This experiential forefronts embodiment, symbolism, and spatial relationships to have a complex yet playful conversation, offering another way into “the work”. 

Kosta Kotoryz, MA, R-DMT