How do we embody our relationship with the world? In their performance, I am, I am, I am, Shrina Patel and Zana Wensel enter into an ecological and spiritual conversation with the Earth, and explore what it means to connect to our environment as humans at this time of ecological despair and socio-political tumult. Through a queer, eco-feminist lens, the two navigate their own internal and external embodiments of body-politics, while dually exploring how these notions inform their individual and collective relationship with the Earth.

Strategizing foreign languages and sounds, the artists move the audience deeper beyond the known debates around environmentalism, and into a sensory conversation. Drawing on the perspective of ‘Earth as Mother,’ Shrina plays with the traditional Hindu ceremony passed down through generations by male priests and into her/their embodied practice as a queer feminist. Thereby challenging the contradictory nature Women’s roles have played, for centuries, in the rituals within Hinduism. Whereas, Zana explores the notion of ‘Earth as Lover,’ and draws on concepts of eco-sexuality; that is, she rediscovers the delights and joys nature brings to and through the body. Through these channels, she revels in the intimate connection that can be found among all natural life (oneness).

As Zana and Shrina enter into a synchronous and synergetic dance of language and sounds, they reclaim and redefine the two spheres, and invite the audience to engage in their own conversation.