Human Clay CIC is a non-profit, practice-based arts organisation based in Devon, UK, working at the intersection of performance, ecology and cultural heritage. We create encounters, research projects, performances, workshops, artist-led laboratories, installations and films that explore the embodied experience of being-in-the-world, where land, memory, movement and imagination converge.
We believe the body is a site of sensing, remembering and transformation. Through dance, ritual, storytelling, material and visual practice, we engage with ancestral knowledge, more-than-human presence and the unseen rhythms that shape life. Our work is guided by eco-somatic awareness and an ethic of attention, creating spaces for artistic experimentation, encounter and public participation.
Through collaborative research and making, we explore multispecies entanglement, the poetics of decay and renewal, and the deep time of cultural and ecological continuity. Butoh is part of our embodied practice in Devon, with workshops, gatherings and visiting international artists hosted and facilitated by Human Clay and Anna Kushnerova.
Human Clay supports community-rooted artistic practice and cross-cultural exchange. We bring artists, researchers, communities, makers and ecologists together to create spaces for experimentation and shared inquiry — where art can become a practice of kinship, ceremony and reclamation.
PROJECT ARCHIVE
A fairy tale. A music epic. A visual hybrid of dance, sculpture, song, and ritual.
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A sculptural performance moving through separation, echo and bodily transformation within layered forest realities; developed for a publication.
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A site-specific gathering around a vast earth cavity, exploring burial, dissolution, and re-formation as thresholds of body and land.
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A site-specific gathering at Ayrmer Cove & Open Play & Improvisation.
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A living portrait of Bhutanese textile weaving. A lineage carried through women’s hands, landscape, and ancestral knowledge. Filmed in Khoma, the home of Kishuthara, the film traces weaving as an art of relation — between body, land, and the rhythms of everyday life.
Granted by The Rubin Museum of Hymalayan Art
Supported by The Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan
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This short dance film unfolds as an eco-somatic invocation—a movement offering to the fungal kingdom and the porous, decomposing body of the earth.
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A dance tale for the threshold of extinction.
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Grimspound is a site-responsive performance rooted in the ruins of a Late Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor. Carried by wind, peat, and the echo of ritual, the piece invites performers and audience into a living encounter with ancestral time and elemental presence.
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This group exhibition gathered thirteen artists whose practices bridge states of becoming, shape-shifting, and return. Specialists in the unseen, the unspoken, and the deeply felt.
www.gowhereeveryouwish.persona.co
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Spanda—from Sanskrit, meaning vibration, flutter, or divine pulse—is a collaborative performance rooted in somatic inquiry, acoustic intimacy, and material tension.
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A somatic offering to the intelligence of fungi, Mycelia Memories is a 30-minute live performance exploring the interwoven vitality of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Five performers moved as kin—human, fungal, and beyond—inhabiting the micro- and macrocosm of a living entity in flux.
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