DepaysementA saudade do desencontro
Dear family, friends and colleagues,
I am thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to each and every one of you to join me this Friday, February 2nd, for the opening of the Sonic Acts Biennial exhibition, "The Spell of the Sensuous," at W139.You will be able to experience dépaysement ~ a multimedia installation by Pedro Matias with whom I collaborated for the 9-channel soundscape, documentary soundtrack and polyphonic voice-over concept and composition.More on the work and the beautiful people that surround it can be found below.Hope to see you there!
Tatiana
OpeningFriday, February 2nd19:00(free)February 3rd to March 24thEvery Wednesday to Sunday12:00–20:00 W139Warmoesstraat 1391012 JB Amsterdam
Dépaysement
Multimedia installation with two-channel video, 24’44’’, soundscape, polyphonic voice-over, and Flotte, Molluskulars, and Coralias sculptures, 2023
The two-channel video work is part of broader research on trans* material landscapes: shapeshifting frameworks that favour softer and more vulnerable environments. dépaysement (super)poses multiple flows of visuality, sonic exploration, materiality, and textuality to critically reflect upon environmental and systemic anxiety. Through the lenses of eco~queer~crip theories, the textual layer uses poetics and fabulation to reflect on transformation, (self)healing, and ‘becoming~by~living~together’.
The video maps (micro) landscapes as subjectivities in search of regenerative postnatural ecosystems. Micro and macro worlds are interwoven with digitally generated images translated from scanning sculptural works and nature. The soundscape plays with movement and displacement, alluding to the ever-growing number of extinct species. In dialogue with the sound, a polyvocal voice-over plays with the overlapping of multiple voices to create one communal voice, neither here nor there, but always present.
Audiences are invited to cuddle the sculptural works and lay down, to let go while floating on Flotte. The Coralias and Molluskulars sculptures are performers and the inhabitants of an undersurface landscape. They glow under UV light like fluorescent coral reefs. Through speculative touch, as a methodology of ‘being in touch’, these sculptures reflect nature in its textures and manifestations, speculating about other possible futures.
Credits
Concept & direction: Pedro MatiasCinematography: Pedro MatiasEditing: Pedro MatiasTrans-media translation: Tatiana RosaSound composition: Tatiana RosaPolyvocal voice-over concept: Tatiana Rosa & Pedro MatiasPolyvocal voice-over composition: Tatiana RosaWith the voices of: André Lourenço & Laura NygrenFlotte: Arthur GuilleminotPTZ camera operators: Tatiana Rosa & Pedro Matias3D modelization & animation: Paula Garcia SansProduction & scenography: Mathilde RenaultPhotogrammetry: Paula Garcia Sans, Mathilde Renault & Pedro Matias
Courtesy of Rademakers Gallery
Photo credits: Marc Doradzillo, GG-E-WERK