GAIA, PROJECT (2021)
Production: Lamaland
Development support: Camargo Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Mill, Film Study Center – Harvard University
Additional support: McFly Sound Production and Films, Screen, Sirius Arts Centre
Support: Gnration, INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Dgartes
We would all like to end up reconciled with the world, to know what world we live in and consequently what life is. Meteors have fascinated the human race since they were first spotted in the night sky. But without science and space exploration to aid understanding of what these amounts of rock and ice are, ancient cultures often turned to myth and legend to explain them. Would a new paradigm enable us to become more resistant to the test that the recent Coronavirus ordeal presents to the global economy and societies? Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon that we are most urgently rethinking and carefully re-describing; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge.
Gaia is a multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology, and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers and that promotes an ecological production. It comprises three works, a record-cum-publication, a film and an installation. It was developed with the artistic direction of Salomé Lamas under the frame of Scale Travels, a collaborative program between Gnration and INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory.
Gnration
INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Lamaland
Mousse publishing
Sirius Art Centre
2021 – WHAT IF THE METEORITES WOULD TALK
Installation, Metal plate print dim. with QR code etched on meteorite from Campo del Cielo, Argentina, SEM microscope characterization, sound and text online content, fog effect, mineral coal, Portugal
Commission: Gnration
Production: Lamaland
Development support: Camargo Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Mill – Makers in Little Lisbon, Film Study Center – Harvard University
Additional support: McFly Sound Production and Films and Screen
Support: Gnration, INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Dgartes
eBay provides an accessible platform for meteorite retailers and numerous auctions. A certificate of authenticity is often provided by the dealer. Illegitimatize dealers are numerous. The purchased specimen claimed to be from Campo del Cielo that refers to a group of iron meteorites and to the area in Argentina where they were found dating from 4200 to 4700 years ago, Holocene. The specimen was submitted to the MNHN – Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in France for identification. The specimen was submitted to the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratoryand the etching of a QR-code was asked to the Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy. The Department of Quantum and Energy Materials characterized the meteorite and multiple scanning electron microscope (SEM) images were captured.
The meteorite voyage was recorded with the collaboration of a sound designer and several musicians. Excerpts of philosophical insight combining political and cultural history with the mechanisms of poetic paranoia from contemporary thinkers were selected from the three concurrent contemporary directions in an attempt to map the cacophonic cosmology of visions and pressures that coexist at the moment. What if the Meteorites would Talk: Installed in the space when scanned the SEM nano QR-code provides access to online sound.
2021 – GAIA: WHAT IF THE METEORITES WOULD TALK
HD video, 16:9, black and white, sound, 2 min., Portugal – Irland
Commision: Sirius Arts Centre
Production: Lamaland
Support: Sirius Arts Centre, INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Only an atopian philosophy-a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy-can rechannel our fear of the outside. A radical existentialism favors everything that challenges the compact immanence in which we are trapped, losing capacity to imagine political alternatives. We must occupy the voids with affection.
