ELEONORA EDREVA
Projects:
re-
inearth/unearth
At each doorway,
Yelling Pillow
Cradle to grave
re-patterning slowly
The sound that surrounds
Once upon a future
A Garden...
Windy Season
Eau Doom
Video Work
Writing
About
Substack
Once upon a future: Sensory storytelling is a series of workshops done in collaboration with Alyssa Frye, an herbalist and food justice activist. We were both similarly interested in the power of words spoken aloud to create soundwaves that reverberate and create ripples through the world, especially when being given to a listener through the intentional telling of a story.
Stories are often told in the past tense, but the idea for the workshop came about from an interest in what could happen when we tell stories about the present or future, when we harness the power of sound waves to shape future events rather than just reinforce past ones. The resulting workshops ask participants to bring a story that they start off by sharing with the group. We then workshop the stories together, doing movement and sensing exercises to help us to tell our stories in the present tense with language that brings in the body and senses.