Documentation
of project Dawn Chorus - La Prekuela
The Puerto Rican artist Sofía Cardona recently won the residency grant at Arteles Themed
Residency: Neo Future for making his project Dawn Chorus - La Prekuela (working
title).
She says, "Shot
primarily in the woods of Western Finland and borrowing from texts such as the
Kalevala and Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea cycle to build its narrative, 'Dawn
Chorus - La Prekuela' shows the history of our planet in the next 500 years.
This video serves as the prequel to the video and performance work 'Echoes of A
Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)' which takes place 1000 years in
the future and which focuses on the decline of earth as a site of rebirth and
reinvention for those currently in the margins. 'Dawn Chorus...', though
abstract in narrative, comprises my most ‘cinematic’ work to date and functions
as a sort of ‘play within a play’ about the early days of our collapse as tethered
to our contemporary systems of global-industrial capitalism.
Documentation
of project Dawn Chorus - La Prekuela
The work centers
on how these systems have accelerated the conditions of our fall by focusing on
climate change and the third world labor and inequity upon which our
contemporary technological infrastructure is built. The piece will also show
footage from the filmmaking itself as part of the structure of the piece
furthering its meta narrative. In keeping with my other work which is concerned
with creating simultaneously disorienting and pleasurable experiences, this
work, while dealing with very concrete themes, doesn’t seek to be moralizing or
entirely clear. The video ends with a deluge -- itself a call back to the oft
clichéd idea of ‘washing away’ in various human mythologies, giving way to the
world presented in 'Echoes...'"
Documentation
of project Dawn Chorus - La Prekuela
Participating Arteles Projects / Neo Future theme residency
program - May 2016 artists include: Christopher Allman (Chicago, USA); Sid
Branca (Chicago, USA); Sofía Córdova (Carolina, Puerto Rico); Eva Davidova
(Bulgaria / Spain / New York); Charlie Donaldson (Brisbane, Australia); Anna
Hoetjes (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); Gabe Michael Kenney (Columbus, OH, USA);
Nicole Killian (Richmond, USA) ; Chor Guan NG (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia); Alison
Taylor & Sabine LeBel (Toronto, Canada) and Tyler Vipond (Toronto, Canada).
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