CROSSED SEASON
FRANCE - PORTUGAL
CONNECTIVITY
“THE EARTH AS EVENT”
The matters of the earth
As part of an artistic and geo-philosophical project on the Earth, O Acontecimento da Terra (The Earth as Event) is a new artistic strategy proposed around the materials of the Earth. The Earth as Event regards the entry of the planet into History, not as the foundation of it, but as an event in it. It is given a new visibility by challenging the paradigms and imagery around it, of which the inhabitants of the planet were the sole focus.
The appearance of era globalisation, which permitted amongst others the taking of the first satellite photograph of the planet and space travel, has underlined that art is required to be created at a planetary level, as the problems it arises can be recorded globally. In fact, there are no local solutions to the climate crisis, the scarcity of resources, the poverty and violence that is crippling the Earth.
The project O Acontecimento da Terra explored several practices of contemporary art, namely painting, sculpture, installation and cinema. The idea behind this piece is to focus on very specific materials, such as rare soil, white and black and fossil coals, originating from all over the planet: they are light and shadow materials. These materials, which after being extracted and worked on, in pictorial and installation pieces, allow for another kind of interrogation around the Earth.
Developed within the depth of the ground, «The Earth as Event» wants to provide a dialogue between the land, the soil and the Earth. This exchange is established through the combination of the video image, providing a new perspective, and the original soundtrack of the piece, made up by the sounds recorded when taping the wind and manifestations of the Earth.
The whole is dominated by the idea of measuring the importance of this introduction into history, which only perceptible through art and can allow us to gain a new awareness.
Integrated Post-Doctoral Researcher about different geological matters of the Earth at ICNOVA - Culture, Mediation and Arts (CM&A) at FCSHUNL PhD in Communication Sciences, with the specialisation in Art and Communication. MA in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy with the dimension of Phenomenology and Hermeneutic from the Faculdade de Letras University of Lisbon. Degrees in Painting from Facultad Complutense de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Degree in Fine Arts-Painting from Faculdade de Belas Artes University of Lisbon. Intervening in several artistic and scientific investigation areas, she has been making innumerable individual and collective exhibitions of Painting/Installation/Sculpture, Photography, as well as experimental work in Video. She has also participating in several conferences and studies on Aesthetics, Art Philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutic, Communication Sciences, Ciberculture, among others, and has publishing several articles in books and specialised magazines.
THE (un)VEILED GAZE
Lamozé
ln the heart of the Yukon territory in northern Canada, flows the Hart River in the Peel watershed.
Layers of meaning, from the industrial to the spiritual, overlap in the same geography.
The watershed is a reflection of the reality, and the struggle, around the world, as industrial societies must reconcile our own nature with the rest of nature. When does our technology include our ecology,
to connect versus orphan us from the rest of life on earth? Does this hinge on the ecology of our perception?
Hart to Heart is an interactive stereo 3D video installation inspired by a journey on the Hart River in the Yukon’s Peel watershed. In this place where human values in the land overlap and divide us, this journey ignites a question for urban and industrial culture:
how will we transcend our duality with the earth?
Hart to Heart: reflections is the first sketch created in 2015 in a series of visual, virtually tactile, and auditory meditations on the land and our relationship with it as an urban and industrial culture. Remote Sensibility VIII: the ecology of perception is the next iteration in development, incorporating the land, visual art and performance, with the insights of our elders and astronauts, in multi-screen installation. RSVIII opened at Yukon Arts Centre public gallery in December, 2019.
Directed, filmed and edited by marten berkman
Interactive design by Baptiste Bohelay
Sound design by Jordy Walker
Marten Berkman is a visual artist, filmmaker and photographer living and working in Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada's subarctic. With an artistic practice inspired by the land and our relationship with it, Marten creates digital canvases of our inner and outer geographies. From a background in drawing, painting, printmaking and photography, his media have evolved to include film making, moving image, interactivity, and stereo 3D video installation. His works have appeared locally, nationally and internationally in print, theatres, galleries, festivals (Planet in Focus, Interactive Futures, Electric Fields, ISEA) and conferences (International Polar Year, World Humanities Conference). Work with his clients and partners have ranged from photography for Canadian Geographic magazine, HD and full dome video production for Yukon and Yukon First Nations at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, to photography and film production for the National Film Board of Canada. He is regularly engaged as video designer for live performance in music, theatre and dance, and has been commissioned to author his own works for Yukon Film Society and TAIS Frame Anomalies. A project currently in development entitled Remote Sensibility VIII: the ecology of perception, inspired by the Yukon's Peel watershed, merges visual art, performance and film.
Hart to Heart
Marten Berkman
