Kenyon Projects

[Memo] Focus on: Simone Kenyon & Lucy Cash • The Cairngorms, the highest and coldest mountain range in the British Isles, lie in the Scottish Highlands. This rugged landscape of free-flowing rivers is home to some of the UK’s rarest species. Scottish poet Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) captured its essence in The Living Mountain, written in the 1940s and published in 1977. The book offers a sensorial journey through the Cairngorms’ geology, geography, and climate, exploring both the living beings that inhabit the region and the mountain itself. Through a deeply personal and embodied account, Shepherd – a pioneer of women’s mountain walking – describes her intimate relationship with the landscape. Engaging all her senses, she shifts perspective from micro to macro in search of what she calls the “total mountain.” Responding to Shepherd’s writing, How the Earth Must See Itself (A Thirling) is a performance-film by Simone Kenyon and Lucy Cash. Set in the Glen Feshie valley, the work meditates on the Cairngorms while celebrating Shepherd’s words. The all-women choreography explores women’s relationships with wild, high places, suggesting that connection to landscape is formed through the body and the senses. Repeated movement through time and space, bare feet on soft moss – these embodied encounters are remembered by the body, and through them, it is transformed. • Kenyon & Cash are part of our exhibition Memo. Remembering the Futures 🗓 13.06.2025—04.01.2026 📍Fondation Martell, Cognac – FR Concept & curation d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts) Scenography @olivier_vadrot (w/ @rafael_tetedoie ) Graphic design @wip.eu (w/ @emmaburel ) Featured artists & designers @felixblume / @emma.bruschi / @liselotcobelens / @collider__ x The Monkeys / @dach.zephir / @robertadicosmo / @sayawciansayaw & Cla Ruzol / @alexisfoiny / @suzannehusky / @kenyon.projects & @l_ucy_cas_h / @fernandolaposse / @cegeste / @neveinsular / @bubuogisi & @iamisigo / @yeseniatipi Co-production @fondationmartell & @cidgrandhornu • Images © 1, 2. Olly Cruise 3–8. Stills from film, Lucy Cash

Preparations are underway on Sheppey for ‘Good Tidings’ this weekend! Over the past six months artists Simone Kenyon (@kenyon.projects ), Rebecca Lee (@beakerthon ) and Bethany Wells have been working with the people of Sheerness to create a new ceremonial ritual for Sheppey. ‘Good Tidings’ will commence on Saturday at midday at The Clock Tower with a song and a procession as part of Sheerness Seaside Festival. We’re still looking for volunteers to help carry our 40 foot Tidal Dial shipping rope (much bigger than the one pictured!) from here along the sea wall to Ship-on-Shore Beach. It’s also not too late to join the musical accompaniment and help perform a new community-written song, so if you’re interested in joining this new ritual, get in touch or simply show up on the day. All abilities welcome - we need all hands on deck! Once at the beach, a buoyant net, tethered between land and sea, will weave together voices, stories and history from the folk of Sheppey and be cast off every hour from high tide at 13:32 to low tide at 19:32. Join us here for activities all afternoon - netting and knotting techniques, more music, and to contribute your ‘Good Tidings’ for Sheppey to this collective ritual. → Saturday 9 August → Meet at Sheerness Clock Tower at midday for the Rope Walk and performance → Then find us at the beach cove by Ship-on-Shore from 13.32-19:32 → Free, all ages and abilities welcome → Email [email protected] to get involved See you there! 👣

We are delighted that @kenyon.projects and @l_ucy_cas_h ’s film ‘How The Earth Must See Itself’ will be part of @we_are_dots ’s new exhibition ‘Memo. Remembering the Future’ in France An evocative and atmospheric homage to the Cairngorm Mountains, ‘How the Earth Must See Itself’ is a short film which serves as a visual companion piece to both Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain and Kenyon’s @into_the_mountain project. The film invites you to experience a meditative, visceral and poetic being with the mountain, its ecologies and the nature encountered Being showcased at Fondation Martell, as part of the exhibition which holds a variety of works dealing with loss and damage, extinction, multispecies memory, ecological grief, climate justice, resistance and remembrance Open from June 13, 2025 to January 4, 2026 ‘How the Earth Must See Itself’ is produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and @scottishsculptureworkshop Memo. Remembering the Future. is curated by d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts) in co-production with @fondationmartell & @cidgrandhornu Find out more via the link in our bio

After a wonderful fungi searching last week at The Work Room in Glasgow for my own research, I stepped straight into another process and supporting the movement direction for Ali Mathews new show Mushroom Language. What a pleasure to be in the studio with Tom and Ali refining all their fungi dreams. Go check it out if your nearby. /whats-on/mushroom-language-a-fungal-gothic/#:~:text=It's%20about%20role%2Dplaying%20the,through%20ritual%20and%20power%20dynamics.

Returning to exploring our Olfactory system with collaborators earlier this week @the_work_room_dance residency in relation to sensing and Kinning with fungal consciousness. 'Fungi are equipped with different kinds of bodies. They don’t have noses or brains. Instead, their entire surface behaves like an olfactory epithelium. A mycelial network is one large chemically sensitive membrane: A molecule can bind to a receptor anywhere on its surface and trigger a signaling cascade that alters fungal behavior.' (M.Sheldrake)