• Bones of the Future •
March 2022 Virtual Program
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A Juncture of Pleasures • Jacarrea Garraway
3 min 36 sec • video
Synopsis
"A Juncture of Pleasures" is a visual meditation which explores creating intimacy with nature and challenging the way movement can encourage a pleasurable response.
Credits Visuals/Editor: Jacarrea Garraway Muse/Composer: Yasna Vismale Wardrobe: Lola Faturoti Loves Stylists: Taylor Leone, Nia Meadows
Artist Bio
Jacarrrea Garraway is a multidisciplinary artist from Boston, Massachusetts currently based in NYC. She is interested in how to pay homage to Black visual culture while actively contributing to its future. Her artistic practice of visual storytelling and archival research encompasses how motion, still images and performance can help to illustrate the complexities and wisdom within the Black imagination.
Jacarrea’s recent work considers the ways in which films can archive sequences of Black beauty, movement and music in order to capture a sense of double consciousness. Through juxtaposing and staging subjects in intimate settings and scenarios, her lens examines the way the performance of Blackness can walk a thin line between being authentic and being objectifying. She earned her BFA from NYU in Film and Television Production.
Hojas (Leaves) • Camila García
2 min 23 sec • video
Synopsis
Leaves dance
whenever there is wind
if not, they wait
Animated dry leaves of my mother's herbarium
Episode 197 of the web Series Mon Oeil, Centre Pompidou.
Official Selection Experiments in Cinema v.15.1. Albuquerque, 2020
Zebra, Poetry Film Festival. Berlín, 2020
Frame Rush. London, 2020.
Festival de Cine Corto de Popayán, Colombia. 2020
5th Make Art not War Teaser Future Film Festival (Worldwide) 2020
Artist Bio
Camila García is a Colombian writer and self-made artist, author of two books of short stories and a dozen of animated movies. You can see more of her work in her webpage www.camilagarcia.net
Roserade • Véro Marengère
4 min 44 sec • video
Synopsis
Inspired by speculative fiction, ecosophy and digital intimacy, Roserade evokes a relationship between an office space, a rose bush and a female human. Sometimes frenetic and sometimes contemplative, it proposes a world that deforms without ever completely destroying or building itself. In this entropy and constant mise en abyme, the human and nonhuman explore the feeling of being interdependent, in a reality shaped by digital and ecological transformations.
Roserade has won the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s JTTP 4th annual prize and the Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux award. It was also chosen for NAISA’s festival SOUNDplay Digital in Nature.
Artist Bio
Véro Marengère is an emerging audiovisual artist and researcher based in Montreal, Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang. She creates artworks that evoke ideas of neoanimism, speculative fiction and digital intimacy. By working with photogrammetry, 3D modeling, electromagnetism and human voice, her work takes a very playful and almost baroque approach to video and music making.
Véro Marengère is currently a graduate student in the digital music program at the Faculty of music of Université de Montréal, where she is creating a speculative and neomaterialist framework for video artwork. She is currently a teacher’s assistant of the course Stereophonic Recording and Sound Systems as well as working in the field of digital literacy. She previously studied visual arts (DEC, 2011) and social sciences (BA, 2014) in the greater region of Ottawa.
Marengère performed at MUTEK, OFF Jazz Festival, AKOUSMA, Suoni Per Il Popolo and NAISA. She’s represented by Kohlenstoff Records, Jeunesse Cosmique and Rara Avis labels. Marengère collaborated with well known artists such as the Juno award winner Sienna Dahlen, SEULEMENT, Estelle Schorpp and many more.
Volatilis • Jenna Eriksen (with Anna Seymour; performer)
11 min • video
Synopsis
VOLATILIS is an experimental dance film. Following a journey of heartbreak, growth and rebirth through the visual metaphor of a volatile landscape. Exploring emotional connection to landscape whilst experiencing sensory disorientation and sensitivity during emotional heartbreak.
Cinematography by Stepanka Cervinkova. Scored by experimental music group The Narcoleptor, featuring Theremin Artist Miles Brown and Harpist Mary Doumany. Featuring costume by Antwerp MFA Designer Shayli Harrison.
Filmed on location at the Pink Cliffs Geological Reserve, Heathcote, Victoria Australia.
Artist Bio
ANNA SEYMOUR is a Deaf Contemporary Dancer from Australia. Currently performing with the London Candoco Dance Company. Anna was born profoundly Deaf and uses Auslan and English to communicate.
JENNA ERIKSEN is a contemporary queer filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Informed by a sense of connection, affinity and belonging, VOLATILIS seeks to create a cathartic response to traversing emotions through space.
SO NATURAL • Tara Olayeye
1 min 18 sec • 16mm to video
Synopsis
"So Natural" is a visual poem shot along the coasts, mountains, and lakes of Georgia.
"So Natural" explores themes of heat, nature, and renewal.
Artist Bio
Tara Olayeye is a filmmaker and video editor currently based in Houston, Texas. Her film work focuses on coming-of-age stories and girlhood. Her film work has been featured on notable media platforms like Nowness and i-D and has been screened nationally as well as internationally at the Cannes International Film Festival Short Film Corner.
De las Cenizas (From the Ashes) • Donna Conlon
video • 2 min 56 sec
Synopsis
A return is not what we need; a realization is.
Life is fragile, the balance is delicate, and interconnections among people and organisms are undeniable.
We needed reminding that we don't hold the reins of the world and that our place in it is precarious. Can we wake up from the clouded illusion, clear our eyes, and let ourselves see?
Sound design: Ingmar Herrera
Sound recording: Ingmar Herrera and Carlos Urriola
Director of photography: Alex Alba
Camera: Óscar Jiménez (Voltage Productions)
Ornithology: Jorge Medina, Pedro Castillo, Jay Falk, Brent Burt
Color correction: Tania Alvarado
Artist Bio
My work is a socio-archaeological inquiry into my immediate surroundings. I observe details in my local environment and daily life, and then focus on them in ways that reveal the idiosyncrasies of human nature and the contradictions inherent to our contemporary lifestyle.
I live and work in Panama City, Panama. In 1991 I received a Masters degree in biology from the University of Kansas (USA) and in 2002 earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore). In 2002 I did a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.
I participated in the 51st Venice Bienniale in 2005, in the Arsenale exhibition as well as in the exhibition of the Italo-Latin American Institute. I have also shown my work at the Tate St. Ives (2021); Casa América, Madrid (2021); la Bienalsur, Buenos Aires (2021); Diablo Rosso, Panamá (2020); Museo Carrillo Gil, CDMX (2020); Another Space, NY (2020); Signs and Symbols, NY (2020); The Met Breuer, NY (2019); Fridman Gallery, NY (2019); The Centro Cultural la Moneda, Santiago, Chile (2018); the Asunción Biennale, Paraguay (2015); Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2013); the Museo de la Ciudad, Cuernavaca, Mexico (2013); Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California (2011); El Museo del Barrio, NY (2011); The Prague Contemporary Art Festival (2008); Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro (2007); the 3rd Auckland Triennial (2007); Centraal Museum, Utrect, Netherlands (2006); and Istanbul Modern Art Museum (2006).
In 2007 I received a grant for emerging Latin American artists from Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). My work is in recognized collections such as Daros Latinamerica (Zurich), Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Art Foundation (Miami), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY).
Since 2006 I have made many videos in collaboration with Jonathan Harker. We have exhibited our collaborations widely, in solo shows at the Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia (2019); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan (2018); Kadist, San Francisco (2018); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2018); NuMu en Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2018); The Spanish Cultural Center, Panama (2017); Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama (2015); Washington Project for the Arts (2015); DesPacio, San José, Costa Rica (2014); Espacio Mínimo Gallery, Madrid (2014); El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (NuMu), Guatemala (2014); TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica (2009); Samson Projects, Boston (2007); as well as group shows at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2020); Casa Luis Barragán, CDMX (2019); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (2014); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2014); El Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica (2014); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2013); Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2012); and Palais du Tokyo, Paris (2009).
We have also participated in events and biennials such as Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles (2017); Prospect New Orleans (2017); the Bienniale of the Americas, Denver (2015); the 43rd Salón (Inter)Nacional de Artistas, Medellín, Colombia (2013); the 8th Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (2011); Pontevedra Biennale, Spain (2010) and the 10th Havana Biennale (2009).
In 2010 we were awarded a Harpo Foundation grant to develop new collaborative work to be exhibited at Teor/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. Our collaborations are included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern (London), Queensland Art Gallery – Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane); the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris/San Francisco), and the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago de Compostela).
My work is represented by Diablo Rosso, Panamá and Espacio Mínimo, Madrid.