MYCELIO
"The mycelium or mycorrhiza is a fungus that expands below the soil, creating a network of connections between all plant species, something like the Internet, which allows them not only to communicate, but also to take care of themselves, protect themselves, feed themselves and stock up on water. When a tree is cut down in the forest, this mycelium communicates to the rest of the trees that one of them is dying, and the others, through the mycelium, begin to take care of the remaining trunk to try to save that life. They feed the tree, give them water and protect them. Because that dying trunk is part of the forest family like we are all in this together in the anthropocene."
(Please note that the following video is a 5:30 minute excerpt of audio-visual documentation only. The following clips were extracted from the immersive sonic and performative artwork: [mycelio] which is a 25:00 min. AI generated 4K video projection and is usually performed in a live architectural multi-channel sonic spatial installation scenario with a live performance by CEREUS).
Peligro 19, Villanueva del Rosario (Andalucia), Spain. (2024)
On a full blue moon evening in Leo, in the mountains of Villanueva del Rosario, close to Malaga, the venue, Peligro 19 transformed into a unique sensory universe. The enveloping music of CEREUS and the visceral dance of Uruguayan contemporary dancer, Lula Amir merged into an unforgettable audio-visual experience with generative AI video artwork by Jared Kuvent.
Malaga-based, Lula Amir is a Uruguayan dancer and choreographer. Sara Sarabia and Fabian Vroom are the Directors & Curators of Peligro 19 in Villanueva del Rosario (Andalucia), Spain. Jared Kuvent lives and works in San Diego, California, USA.
Le plateau des miroirs, Phi Foundation, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
The Plateaux of Mirror was an evening of sonic and musical performances organized in conjunction with the exhibition Rirkrit Tiravanija: JOUEZ/PLAY, as part of Nuit blanche à Montréal's 21st edition.
People seeking out a moment of rest and introspection were invited to discover ambient and drone performances presented continuously in Rirkrit Tiravanija's artwork untitled 1996 (rehearsal studio no. 6). This installation recreated a rehearsal room where Tiravanija and his friends would meet up to play music.
ROTA Festival
Centro Negra AADK, Blanca, Murcia, Spain.
The ROTA Festival and Artist Residency provided the perfect thinking space for gathering, collecting, co-composing sound material through a transdisciplinary approach of activating modular synthesis hardware to intra-connect with research areas of sound studies such as social engagement tethered to the village of Blanca, Murcia below. In the speculative research of plant bioacoustics, one enters a sonic intra-relation by humans with non-human beings (plant life) activated through acoustic wave signals emitted local flora species.
The residency generated a geophysical, geometaphysical or geomystical approach as examining sound matter was the cruxes of the residency as a quantum field of listening.
This residency encouraged and supported this research to consider how we do and might make worlds with care, courage, and imagination by working with the local women's theatre group: Las Atrevidas. We worked together in collaborative workshops, pulling us into the social fabric of Blanca by attending to multiple feminist materialist concepts, technologies, and bodies that inflect the time spent in residency.
Possible Worlds
Spazju Kreattiv Space, Saint James Cavalier Building, Valletta, Republic of Malta.
This exhibition space offers simple ways of witnessing and listening to a bio-acoustic landscape with quadraphonic sound of the Mediterranean region populated by living beings of the natural world.
In order of appearance (listed below), arranged and laid out along a sound timeline. Bio-electrical signals are translated into pitch messages performed by virtual instruments stored locally on the hardware modules and mixed in Ableton Live, a software for composing, arranging, mixing, and mastering this soundscape.
0:00 Ground Layer: Recorded Bird Song from the landscape environment intertwined with anonymous plant weeds recorded and modulated by a 'Scion' module, a biofeedback sensor built into a quad random voltage generator.
0:32 Holy Basil Plant.
2:24 Padron Pepper Plant.
4:35 Lime Fruit Tree.
5:24 Finger Lime Fruit Tree.
5:38 Holy Basil Plant.
7:12 Padron Pepper Plant.
8:51 Holy Basil Plant with a Finger Lime Fruit Tree.
9:20 Artichoke Plant.
10:40 Cereus (Lady of the Night), San Pedro Cactus.
16:00
The PATCH
A Trilogy of (Book I, II, III),
Bonnie Baxter and the BJJ Collective.
MAC LAU, St. Jerome, Quebec, CANADA.
"I AM A TOMATO". performed by La Chachi.
BAJO EL OLIVO//CASA MIA, Alhaurín el Grande, Andalucia, Spain. 2022
Captured in 'The Patch' in Alhaurin el Grande, Spain is an audio-visual work that illuminates the choreographed movements of La Chachi (a Flamenco Dancer from Malaga, Spain) with the tomato fruit creating a contemporary dance work intertwined with human physiognomy in relation to the earth and plant matter. This work forms an intra-action between soil, water and sun with human dance, prophecy and story-telling about a purely biological organic unfolding of events.
La Chachi, "Soy un tomate" (2022). Capturado en "El Parche" en Alhaurín el Grande, España, es un trabajo audiovisual que ilumina los movimientos coreografiados de La Chachi (una bailarina de flamenco de Málaga, España) con el fruto del tomate creando una obra de danza contemporánea entrelazada con la fisonomía humana en relación con la tierra y la materia vegetal. Esta obra forma una intra-acción entre la tierra, el agua y el sol con la danza humana, la profecía y la narración de historias sobre un desarrollo puramente biológico orgánico de los acontecimientos.
BECOMING COMPOST
Alhaurín el Grande, Andalucia, Spain.
We are born of the earth and we return to the soil. We have come to realise that to think of nature as something separate from ourselves. 'Becoming compost' puts aside the view (paradigm) that humans are different from all other organisms, all human behaviour is controlled by culture and free will, and all problems can be solved by human ingenuity and technology.
'Becoming compost' unites us with the more-than-human world. There is only nature in all of its eternal flowering, creating and it produces the oceans, the trees, the birds and all the critters and creatures of this world. Let us not re-imagine it but begin to imagine anew with nature as our co-conspirator, our partner, our guide.
Performances by Cristina Savage and Ursula Bravo, Alhaurín el Grande, Andalucia, Spain.