Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning at Sensefield 2023 / Santuario Virtual para un Duelo Fertilizante en Sensefield 2023

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The VSFM is part of the Sensefield Biennale 2023, Hold on for dear life: relationships in uncertain times. Today! I’m giving a workshop called Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning at 2 pm CET. Info here: https://www.tinyverse.art/service-page/4-6-art-workshop-eliana-otta

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El VSFM forma parte de la Bienal Sensefield 2023, Hold on for dear life: relationships in uncertain times. Hoy Doy un taller llamado Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning a las 2 pm CET. Información: https://www.tinyverse.art/service-page/4-6-art-workshop-eliana-otta

Presentación de la web Luto Verde en el MAC Lima / Presenting Luto Verde at the MAC Lima

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En febrero presentamos la página web Luto Verde en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barranco, en el contexto de la exposición Los ríos pueden existir sin aguas pero no sin orillas. La página es resultado del proyecto Santuario Virtual Para un Duelo Fertilizante y fue desarrollada por el estudio de Hermanos Magia, dirigido por Gabriel Alayza. En la presentación participaron él, Nuno Cassola (colaborador permanente del proyecto), Beatríz Pío (de la comunidade Nuevo Amanecer Hawai, hija del líder asesinado Mauro Pío) y yo.

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In February we presented the website Luto Verde at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barranco, in the context of the exhibition Los ríos pueden existir sin aguas pero no sin orillas. The page is the result of the project Santuario Virtual Para un Duelo Fertilizante and was developed by the Hermanos Magia studio, directed by Gabriel Alayza. The presentation was attended by him, Nuno Cassola (permanent collaborator of the project), Beatríz Pío (from the Nuevo Amanecer Hawai community, daughter of the murdered leader Mauro Pío) and myself.

Festival! 7 Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal at Silent Green

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The 7 Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal supported by Driving the Human were finally unveiled at the beautiful venue Silent Green in Berlin between November 25-27. For my project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, the opportunity was ideal, since the place used to be a crematorium. I could exhibit drawings, audio pieces and video in its Kuppelhalle, creating a temporary commemorative space for the assassinated Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders whose stories can be now found at the website Luto Verde.

During the weekend, I participated in a round table with the amazing Brigitte Baptiste and Susane Pierre, with whom I also continued discussing in a moving one to one conversation. We were challenged by Vera Saccheti’s sharp questions and I also made a couple of workshops related to the project.

All pics: Camille Blake.

Los 7 Prototipos para la Renovación Eco-Social apoyados por Driving the Human finalmente se dieron a conocer en el hermoso lugar Silent Green en Berlín entre el 25 y el 27 de noviembre. Para mi proyecto Santuario Virtual de Luto Fertilizante, la oportunidad era ideal, ya que el lugar solía ser un crematorio. Pude exhibir dibujos, piezas de audio y video en su Kuppelhalle, creando un espacio conmemorativo temporal para los líderes indígenas y defensores ambientales asesinados cuyas historias ahora se pueden encontrar en el sitio web Luto Verde.

Durante el fin de semana participé en una mesa redonda con las geniales Brigitte Baptiste y Susane Pierre, con quienes también seguí discutiendo en una conmovedora conversación uno a uno. Fuimos desafiados por las preguntas agudas de Vera Saccheti y también hice un par de talleres relacionados con el proyecto.

Todas las fotos: Camille Blake.

Learning from Plants, Rocks and Water: Counter-Narratives from Earthlings Amidst Multiple Crises

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A still of my video Offering’s apprentice II used for the poster of our show!

The exhibition Learning from Plants, Rocks and Waters: Counter-Narratives from Earthlings Amid Multiple Crises was inaugurated on Tuesday the 4th at SOHO studios. The show features works of the Peruvian artists Imayna Cáceres, Alfredo Ledesma, Hansel Sato and me and will be on until October 23. Check out the program full of diverse activities!

«The exhibition is the result of a collective experiment, an ongoing collaboration between four artists with similar artistic approaches and a common interest in promoting plural ecological values ​​of coexistence with other beings on earth.

As Peruvian artists living in Vienna, they accompany each other in their migration processes and together imagine stories that could make a world possible in which borders and hierarchies between people, but also between people and nature, have been overcome. The artistic production refers to old mestizo and indigenous practices from the Amazon and Andean regions. In these cultural spaces, people are viewed as an integral part of the natural fabric.»

We are having great press coverage, as shows this article, this article, and the beautiful images taken by Joanna Pianka for Esel.

Picture taken by Joanna Pianka of my piece «An imagined friendship (A spiritual tambito)»
And some other pictures taken by Joanna, including some taken during the guided meditation I made before the opening:

SCREENINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON THREATENED TERRITORIES

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Screenshot from Driving the Human’s journal with Marcelino Tangoa trying the VR version of the project

This text written by Aisha Altenhofen for Driving the Human’s journal, narrates some moments of my recent trip to Peru with Nuno Cassola, to continue the work for the project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning. We went back to Sinchi Roca, Puerto Nuevo and Unipacuyacu, to show the videos made after the first trip in February, receive feedback and shooting more images, before finalizing the project which will be finally presented in November at Silent Green in Berlin.