In community, people find and offer refuge by coming together in common practices such as hugging and holding hands. Syntonic Refuge is an intimate social engagement that explores the importance of refuge for survivors and the act of surviving. By visualizing heartrates, it discloses ways that bodies harmonize with the environment and co-regulate.
This project is a quiet meditation on connections between survivors and the refuge we can create between our bodies in the aftermath of division or trauma. As barriers divide people, this project requires collaboration. The shawl is a bridge for bodies negotiating space.
See Syntonic Refuge in action in a brief documentation video.
This project was developed in LabSynthE, directed by xtine burrough, with Sean Landers, Murilo Paiva-Homsi, Leticia Ferreira, Sabrina Starnaman, and Emma Delight.