DAY 4
How do cultural traditions transform as their respective landscapes change over time?
Venuz White
Director & Editor: Sara García - Creative Director: Venuz White - Sound production: Manuel Suarez - Voice: Ana Sofía Rosas
Water Revelation:
México
Venuz White finds inspiration in ancestral practices and technologies to visually present the "Voices of Water” manifested through colour pigments, water and voice vibrations. As a result of a digital artist-in-residence programme at ÚNA, the Colombian artist will unveil for the first time ever her "Water Revelations", a series of contemporary rituals bringing together five female voices from Brazil, Scotland, Chile, Mexico and Argentina.
This is the Water Revelation from México, represented by the water singer Ana Sofía Rosas.
Danfroc
Through the language of Afro-Contemporary dance and traditional rhythms from the Caribbean coast, young kids dance as a way of reclaiming Afro-Colombian traditions and identity. The Danfroc Cultural Corporation is a community-based initiative of investigation, teaching and creation based in Cartagena, Colombia. Other than a corporation advocating for the arts, empowerment, social integration and the passing down of valuable non-material cultural heritage of the Afro legacy in Cartagena and Colombia, the kids of Danfroc have a determined environmental awareness, cleaning and looking after their hometown, Olaya Herrera in Cartagena.
Rodrigo Arteaga
Through drawings, collages, installations and sculptures, Rodrigo Arteaga cultivates a new approach to human awareness and our understanding of the environment. By working with found books of anatomy, botany, astronomy, cartography and encyclopaedias, the artist investigates the ways in which people give meaning to the world through organisation and classification. Arteaga’s proposition is to dismantle the functionality of these things, transforming the explanatory role of medical illustrations, mechanics, maps, etc, by giving them new meaning, or revealing a deeper one implied.
Rodrigo takes us through a tour of his home and studio in Santiago, Chile.
Flora deBechi &
Gianine Tabja
Scottish artist Flora deBechi and Peruvian artist Gianine Tabja in conversation with curator Giselle Giron from Perú. They met at in Glasgow while studying at the Glasgow School of art and since have been exploring parallels and synchrony in their practices. In this conversation recorded for their participation at ÚNA, they share insights on their production processes, investigation and the way they have collaborated over years inspiring each other. Similarities and differences complementing their practices, both dealing with materiality, environment, and the tension between nature and humans. Also sharing exclusive work they have been developing during lockdown. See both their profiles for further information on their individual artistic practices.
Amanda Thomson
Amanda Thomson is a visual artist and writer who teaches at the Glasgow School of Art and has completed a PhD in interdisciplinary arts practice from the University of the Highlands and Islands/ University of Aberdeen. Her creative practice is research-led and fuses traditional and digital printmaking techniques, photography, bookmaking, video and sound, 3-dimensional work, and creative non-fiction. In her art and writing, Amanda explores how we locate and perceive ourselves in and through nature, offering this perspective from the Highlands of Scotland. In this video edited from archival material and visual snippets of her surrounding natural environment, Amanda describes her practice and research themes in a poetic and insightful manner.
Sigo Siendo | I Still Being (Kachkaniraqmi)
Film curation: Native Spirit Foundation
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A film about characters, characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly a musical but rather a refection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity.
Peru | Perú Dir. Javier Corcuera, 2013 | Shipibo, Quechua, Perú, 120 min.
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