Stone Upon Stone Performance

Aligned with the Sun: The Ancient Past | ‘Stone Upon Stone’

Inspired by visits to Jersey’s ancient dolmens, Alice in collaboration with six community groups created Stone upon Stone, a large soft sculpture. The colours and forms are inspired by Alice’s observations of Jersey’s geology and plant life. Stone upon Stone is interactive, transporting us back 6000 years to become our neolithic forebears engaged in the process of building a dolmen. This era marked the dawn of recorded human involvement in exploring the terrain, communing with the spiritual realm, partaking in rituals, celebrations and revering the divine essence of the land, sun and sea. Alice urges us to participate and reconnect with nature’s depths.

'Stone Upon Stone' performance is a sensory understanding of the natural world, and strives to deepen our appreciation of its interconnected forms of knowledge. In an age when the climate emergency threatens the natural world, this performance calls for the urgent transformation of human to nonhuman relationships, evoke a re-enchantment to a more pastoral realm, to empower and rethink our collective responsibility through interaction, empathy and art.