The Ruins of Her(a)

The Ruins of HER(A) (2025) expands this investigation into land, ecology, and post-humanism through direct engagement with natural environments. Developed as a two-hour live land art performance, the work is situated within and in dialogue with the ancient, partially submerged ruins of Simena. Using found wood, thread, and voice, the performance emerges through sustained contact with the landscape, allowing wind, sun, water, and stone to co-author the work. The ruins fractured, weathered, and slowly returning to the earth function as both material and metaphor, positioning the trans body as an archive shaped by occupation, regulation, and endurance. Through poetic narration and embodied presence, the work draws parallels between histories of territorial conquest and the inscription of law and normativity onto bodies. Rejecting ideas of purity, permanence, and ownership, the work proposes a post-human understanding of belonging grounded in reciprocity, ecological time, and persistence: what is submerged is not erased.