EXHIBITION 2022
BOOK 2024
THE EARTH AS EVENT II
SUMMARY
The artistic and geophilosophical project "La Terre comme Événement II" problematizes the relationship between Earth and nature in its artistic and cinematographic aspects. It is a transdisciplinary project which, in essence, leads to the emergence of new images of the Earth, challenging the historically and ethologically marked notion of territory. It is increasingly clear that the territorial logic that captures the Earth is reaching a critical moment, of which the climate crisis and the entry into the Anthropocene are an important indication. In the film "The Earth as Event II", through his use of materials, through the transduction of the arts he develops, he operates a deterritorialization, accentuating the displacement of materials and interrogating them in their almost pre-human originality. Only cinema has the capacity to deterritorialize the logic of historical borders, without illusory reterritorialization. The appearance of the earth in its elementarity, since cinema gives it a place without dominating it, crossed with the equally nomadic phrases that punctuate the video, opens up political possibilities for thinking about the relationship to the earth and to the community of those who inhabit it. It's a creative expression that aims to intervene and give visibility to other possibilities for inhabiting the Earth. But it also has a broader objective: to draw attention to man's place in planetary history, because the moment is decisive, and to make the most of the risks involved. Romy Castro
Key words: thought, territory, materials, form, image and transduction.
February 17 2024 at 5pm @ Mémoire de l'Avenir
visuel : Arasi Tiffany Tavares
As part of the Saison Croisée France-Portugal 2022, BEING - THE EARTH AS EVENT is a transdisciplinary and bilateral cultural event that brings together artists, academics, scientists and citizens from both countries to reflect on the various ecological issues of our time.
Discover all the activities on the programme by consulting the catalogue here.
For any questions about the exhibition, do not hesitate to contact us by email at contact@memoire-a-venir.org
or by phone at 09 51 17 18 75
"Não quero ser estranha à época em que sou chamada a dizer".
""I don't want to be a stranger to the time I am called to say".
Romy Castro
From 18 June to 27 August 2022 and as part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season, Mémoire de l'Avenir presents A TERRA COMO ACONTECIMENTO (THE EARTH AS EVENT), a monographic exhibition by the Portuguese artist and researcher Romy Castro.
After some sixty exhibitions around the world and a career spanning more than forty years, Romy Castro takes over the Mémoire de l'Avenir exhibition space to explore the issues of the Earth as a living space, through a selection of works from her most recent production, A Terra Como Acontecimento, a protean ensemble which, like our universe, retracts and expands according to the materials, discoveries and spaces encountered by the artist.
Romy Castro delivers the fruit of a deep philosophical reflection on an Earth-matter revealed as an event, a word, an expression, an active force, the primary actor of a dialogue to which the artist invites us.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST
Romy Castro (born in Lisbon, Portugal). Visual artist, curator and integrated post-doctoral researcher of the ICNOVA - Culture, Mediation and Arts of the FCSHUNL. Her transdisciplinary, artistic and geophilosophical work deals with earth materials, and promotes research, experimentation, creation and artistic innovation, as a horizon of thought and action, in the critical moment that constitutes the Anthropocene. Her work, whether in painting, installation, sculpture, photography, jewellery or video, has been presented in 60 individual exhibitions and 100 collective exhibitions. She has represented Portugal abroad on three occasions: in "Europa a Miró" in Barcelona (1993), in the "V International Biennial of Arts" in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and in "ELEVEN - M", in homage to the attacks of March 11 in Madrid, with the support of the BBC (2019). She participated in "Lisboa Capital Europeia da Cultura" (1994) and "Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura" (2012). She researches and publishes in the fields of philosophy of art, aesthetics, cinema, philosophy of communication and geophilosophy. She is a member of the scientific committee of the European Conference of Humanities during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2021) and of the scientific committee of the international journal of art and anthropology of the image "Cinema & Territory", of the University of Madeira - UMA.
THE EARTH AS AN EVENT
ROMY CASTRO
SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 17TH
FROM 2PM TO 6:30PM
Live on ZOOM
Humanities Arts and Society and Mémoire de l'Avenir are inviting a panel of artists and researchers to address different citizen, artistic and scientific initiatives that are part of a transdisciplinary reflection on contemporary environmental issues, weaving new narratives to reinvent the Earthlings-Earth relationship.
Organized in collaboration with UNESCO MOST, the event will benefit from simultaneous translation by a French-Portuguese interpreter.
PANEL OF ARTISTS AND THINKERS
| Romy Castro | J.A. Bragança de Miranda |
Tramages collective
| Alexia Antuofermo | Elena Tognoli |
| Giacomo Sartori | Christopher Alexander Kostritsky Gellert | Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith | Tiffany Tavares Arasi | Laurine Wagner | Anya Gleizer |
l groupe franco-britannique Addictive TV |
Pour nous le temps primitif est le temps vibré.
La matière existe dans un temps vibré et seulement dans un temps vibré.
Au repos même, elle a de l'énergie parce qu'elle repose sur le temps vibré.
Gaston Bachelard, La dialectique de la durée.
SYMPOSIUM
BEING - THE EARTH AS AN EVENT
transdisciplinary event within the framework of Saison France-Portugal 2022
Forfurther questions contact us by email at contact@memoire-a-venir.org
or by phone at
09 51 17 18 75
OPENING
in presence of the artist
June 17th 2022
VISITS
from June 18th to August 27th
Tuesday - Saturday
from 11am to 7pm
The non-exhaustive exhibition chooses to highlight the video creations A Terra como Acontecimento I and II; the first (2012), a matrix material from which Romy Castro's aesthetic and geophilosophical research has been unfolding since 2012, draws on the artist's own thinking as well as that of J.A. Bragança de Miranda. It takes the form of a vibratory essay, an exploration of matter-dark and matter-light, sounded from noises produced by the Earth and collected by the artist.
The second video piece (2021) extends the experiment towards new pictorial compositions in tryptic and colour. The introduction of written language, infiltrated by the artist's own thoughts as well as those of Carl Sagan, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and J.A. Bragança de Miranda, puts philosophical questions and lively, pulsating materiality in dialogue. A research on space and territory that questions its limits, contours and its points of permeability with the rest of the living.
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