Field Walk: The Mound Collective [Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell]

ARTISTS: Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell [The Mound Collective]

LOCATION:  The Regent Theatre, 5 Brisbane St, Murwillumbah NSW 2484

WHEN: Friday 26 June | Opening night starts 5pm | Presentation 6pm – 8pm

LINKS: www.geraldinebalcazar.com | www.chelseajewell.com.au

TICKETS: RSVP HERE

Field Walk is a movement-based research project by The Mound (Collective) that explores devotional walking as a social art practice. Through slow, time-based choreography, the work creates connections between body, landscape, and time.

Developed with collaborators across the Tweed region, the project centres on daily five-minute walks along the sugar cane plantation called the Mother Plot, Condong. These small, repeated actions form a shared practice of ritual and devotion, a field of attention where slow walking becomes a way of listening, sensing, and attuning to place.

For LAVA Arts Festival, this research is presented through a film sharing the collective, site-responsive activation. The work unfolds through movement, light, the presence of bodies and experimental material in space, creating a shifting environment that audiences can encounter. 

Rather than presenting a fixed outcome, Field Walk invites audiences into a shared space of attention, where connection itself becomes the work.

Image Credit: landscape images - Levi Eadsforth

The Mound would like to acknowledge collaborators Carlos West, Levi Eadsforth and sugar cane productivity advisor Gerard Bambach.

ARTIST BIO

The Mound is a collaborative practice between artists Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell, working at the intersection of performance, sculpture, choreography, site-responsive action and care-full exchange(s).

The collective brings together Jewell’s background in spatial design and visual art with Balcazar’s choreographic and embodied performance practice to explore how bodies move through, tend to and co-author an experience of place and landscape.

Often working outside conventional performance venues, The Mound Collective creates porous encounters that invite audiences, passers-by and communities into moments of shared attunement. These encounters are not announced as spectacle but emerge gently with sustained presence, unfolding through listening, tracing, tending and moving together.