Scrying the Landscape IV w/ Elina Tapio & Hannah Pezzack!
For Freudian analysts, dreaming of horses is a sign of a phallic fixation – a symbol of carnal, unbridled desire. In 1973, Peter Shaffer published Equus, a play about a young man whose pathological obsession with the creatures drives him into mania: from erotic fascination to violent possession. Yet for feminist writers like Elspeth Probyn, the act of riding embodies euphoric lines of flight. Stables are distinctly feminine spaces in which women and girls form close bonds with each other, and with their equestrian companions. The fourth episode of Scrying the Landscape is inspired by a trip Elina Tapio and Hannah Pezzack took together to Oostvaarders National Park in the Netherlands. There, the wild Konik horse – descendants of the extinct Tarpan - has been introduced to roam through this fenced territory. Indebted to this re-wilding experiment, the biopolitics of species scarcity and Celtic rituals, they present a soundscape of horse music; pagan folk, experimental noise and Welsh choral singing.