Jamaican-born Brooklyn-based artist, Tara-Jo Tashna organizes an evening of new immersive works titled, A. Garden (anthrophony garden). Layering sound, movement, olfactory interventions, and spoken word, Tashna creates an environment exploring the essence of nature walks and forest baths; instead of basking in the splendor of plants and trees, A. Garden encourages the audience and performers to bask in each other’s presence, blurring the lines between these distinctions in service of the lush reciprocity of communal performance.
 

Tashna draws inspiration from her surroundings in Jamaica, her time tending to the land there, and researching Jamaican organic cultural movements, farming projects, and local agricultural techniques. Through scent and lighting design along with the performers’ movement and sound, Tashna seeks to replicate the invigorating sensorial rush of cultivating shared land.