technoshamanism syncretism:

what does ritual mean to us?

20th September 2011 to 31st October 2011

In recent years, collective practice in Brasil has generated theoretical-practical-political-subjective platforms from different perspectives. In these contexts, actors critically undertake processes of social movements, urban space, performances, immersive happenings and multimedia to produce and share experiences and content. Recently, artist-producers in the fields of art, media and technology, have been deeply committed to producing social spaces and territories of agency around the notion of expanded performative experiences and processes.

Aware about the use of technology from indigenous cultures, traditionally interactive and interdisciplinary, involving rituals and ceremonials that reach beyond urban society daily codes, we intend to experience the period of the residency as an interface to juxtapose the concept of "different natures" and "trans specificities", proposed by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro, with performative rituals interconnected with elements as body, machine, nature, multimedia, ritual, performance, landscape, art and technology, as an attempt to take us into deeper levels of political, sociological and cultural subjective | subversive practice.

Simultaneously, during the period of the residency, this experiment will be orally developed from continous documentation – involving the natural environment, rituals, landscape, performances, local stories and narratives, testimonials, noise, community, labor etc - to explore the potential around the sonic, the film-essay, the archive, speculative futures and mythos-fictions and also available in the web, as an on-line platform connected to the experience itself.

strategies :
§ explore the relation between body, technology, performance, ritual, landscape and documentation in Ennerdale Valley ;
§ engage collaboratively Wild Ennerdale site and local community ;
§ work as partner of the organization staff - assisting with conservation / maintenance work ;
§ provide spaces and opportunities of interaction and feedbacks during the residency period.

Ali Khodr
Born in Lebanon
Brazilian nationality
Lives and works in Paris
PHD student in visual arts, researching about the confrontation of the notion of continuous process of artistic practice and the notion of eventual actions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_DXS_DTbI
Member of the collectif MERGULHO, develops projects since 2006 in order to create through drawing, video, photography and printed works methods of sharing experiences and projects such as TEMPORARY STATES and WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW HOW. www.artbaseasso.wordpress.com/processozero

Fabiane Borges
Born in Bagé, Brasil
Lives in London and works around the world
Psychologist, undertaking a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at PUC-SP. She has been involved in the production of events about art, politics and technology in Brazil since 2000 and has published three books last year that deal with the subject, available at:
http://catahistorias.wordpress.com
http://www.youtube.com/catadores
http://vimeo.com/user6374828/videos
http://integracaosemposse.zip.net
http://tuliotavares.wordpress.com/acmstc

Camila Mello
Born in Porto Alegre, Brasil
Lives and works between London and Brasil
Multi-media artist, researches the relation between body, space and time through image and sound documentation related to experiences in imersive and temporary contexts: www.youtube.com/corpoliquido#p/u/6/eVRH8BunoOM
Since 2005 has been a member of MERGULHO, a collective platform that explores the possibility of restoring subjective realities into shareable experiences: www.corpoliquido.wordpress.com
www.youtube.com/corpoliquido
In 2010, MERGULHO and Rodrigo Lourenço, of DESVENDA Contemporary Art Fair, organized the project SEU - Urban Experimental Week, an on going experimental art process about experience in public space, as a foment of collective work and interchange between artists and community:
www.portoalegreseu.worpress.com
Also in 2010, joined Ali Khodr to create BASE art association, a collaborative space in Paris, on the notion of encounter, relation and the archetype of the artist as a worker: www.artbaseasso.wordpress.com/processozero

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