Asylum Seekers

Asylum Seekers performance group is built as a response to environmental damages being inflicted upon our world. It is not only humans of course who are affected and pushed from familiar territories rather all species. We, inhabitants of earth are inextricably connected and therefore rely on each other plants, animals alike. Science (that bastion of reputability) has finally and at long last declared that plants communicate too, are inter-dependant, are passing information between not only each other but between other life-forms such as insects and animals. We are part of the animal kingdom and have intrinsically been aware of this connection since the dawn of time although, until very recently in our evolution and our tenure as chief of the food chain, have decided to stop listening and deny sentience to other beings apart from ourselves. In Asylum Seekers guise we describe through ritual the need to ask questions such as "Where are we going ?", "Why do you choose not to see the glory in all lives ?", "How do we feel when confronted with the elements ?" while we are embodying spirits of nature. We inhabit a mute form, a form of mouthless creatures made from palm tree leaves and recycled rubber (Ficus 'blood'), while our Shamans drive energising rhythms through us and through our audience. Our action is required to process within ourselves 'the Great Sadness' that afflicts modern man and also to stimulate a joy and a wonder in existence itself and the sheer surprise of our being here at all. Are you a glass half empty person or a glass half full and are you amazed that there is even a glass at all ?

                                                                   In Plants We Trust

We have performed at a multitude of events  from  carnaval to gallery, corporate events to private functions and we can be contacted through this website.                                                         In Plants We Trust