Clarinde Wesselink’s work is a disruption, a call to shatter the systems that dictate our perceptions, temporal experiences and bodies. As a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist, her practice rips into interconnectedness as a lived experience. By invoking Indigenous frameworks, where kinship and reciprocity shape reality, her work moves beyond anthropocentric boundaries, questioning entrenched separation.
In her work, the environment becomes an active force: a presence that, together with the bodies within it, generates meaning and action. She explores how moving through the world is never a solitary act. Each step and each gesture carries the potential to connect bodies—individual and collective—into something larger than ourselves. Connection here is not a fixed state, but a continuous process shaped by attention, rhythm, and proximity.
With a body attuned to the unpredictability of external forces, Clarinde’s work beckons us to dismantle the dominance of control and embrace a world where connection is a constant presence.
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Texts:
→ Being as Knowing by Susan Leigh Foster, 2025
→ Rooted, Dr. Nathanja van den Heuvel, 2023
→ The Reason I Move, Peter Manson, 2022
→ De Groene Amsterdammer, Column, 2022