You are not a sterile abstraction. You are not a car nor a computer, you are not even you. Please drop your delusions of grandeur, and stay here, it's nice. MARS CAN WAIT.
In Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby build a speculative fiction that addresses the complexities of interspecies relationships in an age of mass extinction. “Cuteness” might be one of the answers.
In The Dust, Tianzhuo Chen’s demand to get beyond the body leads him to consider what the performative aspects of ritual and ceremony look like in the absence of human beings.
The two unseen characters in Come Closer are based both on MarksMara's own collaborative relationship and that of primordial prokaryotic organisms. Their conversation, set to an unsettling score by Heith, playfully speculates on the origins of complex life and an underrated form of symbiosis: friendship.
Félix Blume’s Curupira is a sound thriller in the midst of the Amazon jungle. Tauary inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds, and animals. Headphones recommended.
For Imprint (View with a Grain of Sand), made in collaboration with composer Amosphère, Nona Inescu takes on physical weathering, the process through which sand forms when rocks break down from eroding over thousands and even millions of years. The video reflects on the position of the transient human body, within a complex, mineral landscape, both from a temporal as well as a spatial point of view.
In An Evolutionary Striptease, Jared Marks juxtaposes images from the reality survivalism show Naked & Afraid with a soundscape by Audrey Chen, raising questions about the desire for de-evolution as a reaction to a highly complex present.
Apparently, a mushroom was the first thing to grow in the devastated area after the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan’s The Visible Manifestations of Invisible Forces, builds on the example of the mushroom by focusing on the capacity of nature for resilience and its symbiotically co-existing entities.
Sébastien Robert presents a sound research on Araucaria araucana, the sacred tree of the indigenous Mapuche of Chile. In The Kultrun of Cañon del Blanco he carries the rhythms of the drum in the resin of the tree and documents their influence on the formation of the crystals.
A project co-funded by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not to be held responsible for the content of the project, nor for the ways in which the results of the project might be used. Those are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the grant.
The participation of Félix Blume, Nona Inescu, Amosphère, Heith, Audrey Chen and Sébastien Robert in this exhibition is supported by SHAPE platform, a project dedicated to sound, heterogeneous art and performance in Europe and co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
