November Newsletter
Dear colleagues, friends and family,It has been a while now that I've been trying to figure out what is the best way to communicate with you what has been up with my artistic activities these days.E-mails have always felt somehow like a closer way to get in touch(while still not invading your personal space)So, after designing some invitations I have decided to take yet another step and start a newsletter.The feeling of writing a letter seems right.If you do not wish to follow you can unsubscribe from my mailing list via a link by the end of this e-mail.To the ones that keep on scrolling and reading it, thank you so much for your time!-----The end of the year is arriving and with it many projects approaching their end at the same time that new projects start to emerge.It is a beautiful time, with a feeling of closing cycles and the opening up of new opportunities.November will be an exciting month filled with travelling, starting already this week with a non-work-related quick visit to my beloved Alentejo.While there I'll make sure to check out Jamie Man's new work at Festival Terras Sem Sombra, and while I myself cannot make it, as I will unfortunately be gone by then, if you can, make sure to pass by o espaço do tempo to check out Angelo Custodio's new work 'O Permuto'.
Upcoming events
It seems like November is the month for installations.Two big projects which I've been involved with will be presented inAmsterdam - The Butterfly Effectfrom dearest Mathilde RenaultFreiburg - A Longing for Surrenderingand Basel - (e)motional charting - Preludefrom also dear friend, Pedro Matias.during this month.So if you're in one of these cities make sure you check them out, or drop me a line for a cup of tea.Also, No-One Show, our immersive VR music theatre experience will be travelling to Switzerland, programmed by IGNM - Bern and presented at PROZESS Kultur & Bar.Performances on November 16th l 18:30 & 21:00
The Butterfly Effect
IDFA - De Brakke GrondAmsterdamNovember 11th - November 20th
Credits
Director - Mathilde Renault
Production
- Mathilde Renault
Key collaborator - Bernard Foing, Sebastiaan de Vet
Animation
- Paula Garcia Sans
Editing
- Mathilde Renault
Designer
- Frank Bloem for The Sniferoo, Rita Fialho, Céline Jouandet
Developer - Daniel Nunes
Technical artist
- Lefki Mevissen, Lino Thijssen
Sound Design - Tatiana Rosa
Screening copy - Mathilde RenaultSupported by:The Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industry, ILEWG EuroMoonMars & Art Moon Mars.
A Longing for Surrendering
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst | E-WERKFreiburgNovember 26th 2022 - January 15th 2023
A longing for surrendering, is an immersive multimedia installation that explores embodied ecological thought and the intra-relationality between human and more-than-human ecosystems. Within a postnatural premonitory ‘cave of desires’, this installation charts inaccurate, disorientating and fractal narrative(s) reflecting upon the relation between the ’working body’, coral reefs and systemic (natural) anxiety. A longing for surrendering poetically translates natural phenomena and interdependent ecosystems into an otherworldly and bodily environment, while proposing a luscious multi-sensorial (re)discovery of polyphonic sound/land/scapes. The work is assembled toward shape-shifting and intimate encounterings, in which fragility, speculation and touch are welcome. The audience is encouraged to explore the installation and through touching, to be ‘in touch’. CreditsInstallation - Pedro MatiasSoundscape composition & Trans-media translation - Tatiana RosaSound design - Tatiana RosaSculptural seat - Arthur GuilleminotScenography - Mathilde Renault & Pedro MatiasLights - Tatiana Rosa & Pedro MatiasVideo Concept, direction, cinematography & editing - Pedro Matias3D modelization & animation - Paula Garcia SansAssistant - Arthur GuilleminotCurator - Dr. Heidi Brunnschweiler
October Highlights
It has now been two years since we premiered No-One Show and it's a performance that keeps on giving.We were extremely excited to have it partially screened and interviewed at NPO's show 'Op de Planken' and shortly after performed in the amazing Intro in Situ, where we were so warmly welcomed.Click the image below if you want to access the entire TV episode at NPO start.
Also this month was the kick-off of the amazing new project, Kiemgrond, by film director Thomas Brand.The whole team had a great time discovering a new location for the first time during two intense days of field recordings, walking, running, smelling, listening, seeing and feeling the space.More news on that coming soon!And last but not least, this month I had the pleasure to perform at ADE - Amsterdam Dance Event for the very first time, in a really dear venue, Splendor Amsterdam, side by side with great artists' Fani Konstantinidou and Anne La Berge.You can look back at it via the link below!
This month's reading suggestion:
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk