Field Walk: The Mound Collective [Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell]
ARTISTS: Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell
LOCATION: M-Arts Precinct, 105 Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah, NSW
WHEN: Friday 26 June — Opening night performance | From 5pm until late
LINKS: @geraldinebalcazar | @chelseajewell
Field Walk is a movement-based research project by The Mound 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 invited participants across the Tweed region, the project centres on daily five-minute walks oriented toward Wollumbin. These small, repeated actions form a shared practice of ritual and devotion, a field of attention where slowwalking becomes a way of listening, sensing, and attuning to place.
For LAVA Festival, this research is presented through a 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 and move through.
Rather than presenting a fixed outcome, Fieldwork invites audiences into a shared space of attention, where connection itself becomes the work.
ARTIST BIO
The Mound is a collaborative practice between artists Geraldine Balcazar Cabrera and Chelsea Jewell, working at the intersection of performance, sculpture, choreography, and site-responsive action. 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 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.