Date of Award
2025
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Theater and Dance Dept.
Advisor(s)
AB Brown
Second Advisor
Annie Kloppenberg
Abstract
In Between the House Light and the Sun Rise is a research project that includes a 20-minute performance and a written thesis. The research uses the framework of relationality to explore the relationship between humans and houseplants. Although houseplants live in a human-constructed environment, they have their own influences on people and the space around them. Learning from the ways plants move through time and space and the connections plants make with each other and with other living and non-living things, this project aims to use movement to reimagine the way we think about time, space, and community. This project takes a comparative approach, including an analysis of three contemporary performances, Estado Vegetal, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, and Singing Plants Reconstruct Memory, followed by explaining how those ideas influenced my art-making process and my thesis show, In Between the House Light and the Sun Rise.
Keywords
Plant-Human Relations, Relationality, Time, Mobility, Diaspora, Community
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Xinyi, "In Between the House Light and the Sun Rise" (2025). Honors Theses. Paper 1525.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/1525