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FACTT 20/21
IMPROBABLE
TIMES
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FACTT 20/21 Improbable Times
These are improbable times. A year ago we started to feel the first effects of an event – a change that would come in a form of a pandemic. Our daily routines were completely put on hold and we were forced to rethink, remake and adapt in order to respond to such an altercation. Lives were, indeed, put on hold. These are (im)probable times and the consequences reach beyond the health crisis. It became clear that humans, as a collective living system, have certain fragilities that linger throughout time and that right now, have to be rethought more than ever.
Cultivamos Cultura and Arte Institute in collaboration with our worldwide partners provide and actively promote conditions to foster the creative response of artists towards these new challenges. Together we develop a series of activities within FACTT Festival 20/21 which result from a complex network of social and environmental interactions. Together we plan remote, face-to-face, local and international public engagement activities, by bringing to the forefront the work of artists from all over the world. We plan to present artworks and creative outcomes in a hybrid space entangling the virtual and physical; a space that desires to break the limits of access to culture, to collaboration, to the experience of art.
Following the idea of humans as a collective, living and breathing system, it’s difficult not to think how our individual actions affect the course of the whole. In this FACTT we propose to reflect about Art in a loose but strong parallel to the times we’re living. We have a larger impact than what we might think at first and all our actions have consequences not just for humanity but for the non-human systems. We can think of this collective system, in which we are all involved, as an organism, and like other organisms we work in distinct and complex scales. Our extended community has bloomed through fragility, and our choices have now a bigger, heavier influence on what will be the aftermath of this crisis.
Through FACTT20/21 we wish to think deeply and creatively together about the (im)probable times we are living in, by developing collaborative new strategies to face the rapid and sudden transformations our lives and environment. This year’s FACTT is more than ever an ongoing research process of adaptation, constantly rethinking itself into becoming a profound and richer experience for all, without exceptions, beyond art.
Improbable Times
FACTT 20/21 – Improbable Times presents a series of exceptional artworks jointly curated by Cultivamos Cultura and our partners. The challenge of a translation from the physical space that artworks typically occupy, into an exhibition that lives as a hybrid experience, involves rethinking the materiality of the work itself. It also questions whether we can live and interact with each other remotely and in person producing creative effective collaborative outcomes. Improbable Times brings together a collection of works that reflect the times we live in, the constraints we are faced with, the drive to rethink what tomorrow may bring us and to navigate and build a better future, beyond borders.
- Adam Zaretsky; “biTransversal Symmetry”.
- Amy Youngs; «Grasping Permeability”.
- Arte + Ciencia; “Third Sonorous Body (Tercer Cuerpo Sonoro)”.
- Bill Psarras; “Objects In Odysseys”.
- Hannah Fitzgerald; “Life Hack”.
- Maria Manuela Lopes; “Adaptive Membrane”.
- Michael Palumbo, Kavi, Debashis Sinhan & Joel Ong; “Void * Ambience: Latency”.
- Tania Tsiridou; “Askos: The Wind Repository”.
- Tarah Rhoda; “Tear Apart Here”.
- Suzanne Anker; “Remote Sensing”.
- Alan Tod; “ALAN TOD | Kami, the embodiment of vegetal thoughts”.
- BIOSCÉNICA; «Empathy 5.3/ Oniris or lucid body»
- Carla Rebelo; “Becoming”.
- Carolyn Angleton; “Re-culturing”.
- Dalila Honorato, Isabel Burr Raty, Karolina Żyniewicz, Robertina Šebjanič, Louise Mackenzie, Pavel Tavares; “Staying in Touch”.
- Ken Rinaldo; “Opera for Dying Insects”.
- Lena Lee, Robertina Šebjanič; “Aviacene & Aquatocene: Stories of Cantera Oriente Reserve”.
- Minerva Hernández Trejo; «Cempoallapohualli live sculpture».
- Tania Tsiridou; “Unpredictable Wind Trajectories”.
- NTWRKr; “echo =(‘eco$crapes)”.
- Antonio Caramelo; “Dreaming of a Butterfly”.
- BIOSCÉNICA; “Invoke potencial / Video poem”
- Kathy High; “50cc Air of Troy”.
- Leena Lee & Vania Fortuna; “Niebla (Fog)”.
- Matilde Real, Pavel Tavares; “Eu, Tu e o Campo”.
- Minerva Hernández Trejo; “Transition – installation and digital graphic”
- Mónica Garcia; “Nó no Sol”.
- Paulo Bernardino Bastos; “Espaço Alternativo”.
- Pavel Tavares; “Ovo Humano”.
- Joel Ong and Elaine Whittaker; “Proximal Spaces”
- Lena Ortega; “A Fox’s Tale”.
- Marie Fages, “Attempt of an island”.
- Marta de Menezes e Kira O’Reilly; “Web”.
- Kim Doan Quoc; “Are we safe here?”.
- Diana Mordido Aires; “Ares de Casa”.
- Vanessa Goodman e Simona Deaconescu; “BLOT”.
- Sara Montalvão e David Negrão; “Loop Mental”.
- Paula Bruna; “Pareidolia”
Video
Events
04 Jun 2021, 20:00 GMT
BLOT | Q&A with Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman
01 – 04 Jun 2021
BLOT at FACTT 20|21
28 May 2021, 20:30 GMT
Meeting our FACTT 20/21 artists II
03 May 2021, 20:00 GMT
Proximal Spaces by Joel Ong and Elaine Whittaker + Poetry Reading
Facebook Live
06 Apr 2021, 20:00 GMT
Meeting our FACTT 20/21 artists
CDMX, Mexico
28 Feb 2021, 20:00 GMT
Online Empathy 5.3 – Oniris, or the awakening of the lucid body By Bioscénica
CDMX, Mexico
28 Jan 2021, 20:30 GMT
Third Sonorous Body (Tercer Cuerpo Sonoro) By Arte+Ciencia
Toronto, Canada
28 Jan 2021, 20:30 GMT
«Void * ambience: Latency» By Joel Ong, Michael Palumbo and Kavi
"We need to rethink the way in which we inhabit the others as well as our own subjectivity."
Bill Psarras "Objects In Odysseys"
"Askos: The Wind Repository is an interactive sound installation that uses the concept of the wind with the aim to investigate the idea of tangibility and its opposite: the intangibility"
Tania Tsiridou "Askos: The Wind Repository"
“How can a place that is not here show itself? Can a landscape include me as a part of it?”
Amy Youngs "Grasping Permeability"
"As geography becomes digitally remapped into data sets, access to territories merge the urban with the rural, the contaminated with the pristine, and even the retreating glacier with the desert, eliciting a world view without political and tribal borders."
Suzanne Anker "Remote Sensing"
"The deceiving moment happens when it is perceived that the aseptic inside contrasts with the touchable and breathable outside."
Maria Manuela Lopes "Adaptive Membrane"
"What would it look like to instrumentalize grief in the same way we do physical exercise? If a fake smile can trick your brain into producing hormones that make you feel happy, can stimulated tears allow us to tap into a place of emotional sensitivity? Can we hack our bodies to help our hearts pay attention?"
Tarah Roda "Tear Apart Here"
"Life Hack is a work of satire, in which I demonstrate reconstructing the wounded flesh to the best of my ability, with a practical calmness that de-personalizes the “patient” and slowly desensitizes the viewer to the severity of the wound."
Hannah Fitzgerald "Life Hack"
"We are interested in the multi-dimensionality and intersubjectivities of time folded in the instance of an online conference; and in the temporal zones of the pandemic, developing site-specific projects that connect to prevailing stages of lockdown in Toronto."
Michael Palumbo, Kavi, Debashis Sinhan & Joel Ong "Void * Ambience: Latency"
"We need to rethink the way in which we inhabit the others as well as our own subjectivity."
Arte+Ciência; Arte + Ciencia "The third Body"
"I am looking for preserved but adjusted versions of relationships in anatomy."
Adam Zaretsky "biTransversal Symmetry"
A space that desires to break the limits of access to culture, to collaboration, to the experience of art.