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24 Uur Nieuw-West
We are excited to continue our programme The Live Art Series, dedicated to showcasing performances. For our 4th iteration, we are delighted to host Lorena Solís Bravo at our performance space, who explores the concepts of darkness and metamorphosis through research on myths and moths, challenging conventional perceptions and proposing alternative ways of understanding our relationship with nature and change. Situated against a culture fixated on progress and clarity – primarily advanced by the Western episteme – ‘myth, moth, mother’ dives into the theme of darkness, and questions its position as a negative realm where humans merely sleep and fear the unknown. Rejecting this framing, Solís Bravo focuses on nocturnal creatures to lead us to an unlit but insightful zone for reconsidering our place in nature and the rules that govern the formation of our knowledge paradigms, so often set up against a mutual relationality with the world; an imaginary space where humans can coexist harmoniously with other species, fostering equality among diverse life forms by embracing a become with them.
You’re invited to join us for ‘myth, moth, mother’ on Saturday 12th of October 2024 – In partnership with 24 Uur Nieuw-West
Doors open at 20:30. performance starts at 21:00. Music and drinks will follow up after the show.
Tickets for the event are €12 and can be bought from the button below.
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Shot in the Peruvian Amazon, the film elucidates the dim landscape of moths as a vehicle for transformation. Solís Bravo utilizes several image-making technologies related to science in the making of this film that add depth to the possibilities of a digital camera: An electron microscope, a thermal camera, camera traps and Micro CT-Scanners. All this to further access the unseen. For The Live Art Series #4 the artist will present a performative iteration of ‘myth, moth, mother. It is a sequential triptych that initiates a dialogue between both analogue and digital perspectives. Firstly, the evening begins with a screening of an 18 minute film shot in 4k, coupled halfway with the artist’s reading of their text reflecting on cosmologies of the region, and lastly the presentation and screening are joined by an analogue 16mm work to lead the narration into conclusion – all in light of conjuring the spirit of mutability in the illumination of the bountiful nonhuman vantage point.
Visuals by Lou Buche and Javier Rodriguez
The Live Art Series is supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen (City of Amsterdam)