I am interested in poetic and conceptual explorations of time and space across a wide range of mediums, from installations and sculptures to drawings, photography, music, performance, and video. This includes art-science expeditions in search of symbolic natural phenomena, how we signify them, and how we relate to the given meaning. As an artist, I deal with questions that concern scientists and philosophers alike. I am interested in diverse cultural and social contexts informed by past and present events as well as our imagined or expected future events.
Collaborations with diverse disciplines and professions have nurtured my work, but the intimate act of observation is also a central activity in my creative process; this is how I ask myself about what coincides—near, far, and in movement—about points of view and about what coexists beyond space-time. I am interested in how technology, language, culture, history, etc., has affected our perception of time and space and our relationship with nature, even though our presence here is still limited by time and space.
It goes like this: ___ Do you know the song?
My proposal during my residency is to create a score that captures a brief fragment of Rabbit Island's existence.
Each place has its own song, a symphony of the rhythms given by nature. The basic pace of everywhere on Earth is the moon cycle, the Sun, solstices, and equinoxes. Then, the distinction of each place is given by its meteorology due to the territory's qualities, followed by fauna and flora. Throughout time, years, and centuries, the rhythms of nature have changed. Our ancestors had observed and registered nature as a necessary act of survival. Observing the rhythms that repeated and the exceptional events of each year, they found the basis for our knowledge of nature. In the beginning, it could have been cave paintings, stone carvings, totems, songs, myths, storytelling, the way human beings create a memory of the natural rhythms, then (you know the history). And now, as a society, our central relationship with nature is data.
I propose to observe and create a notation of everything that happens, moves, changes, or stays still on Rabbit Island and what my senses can reach. I will work with sunrise, sunset, and the moon as a rhythm (I chose the dates that include nearly the time between full and new moons).
The artwork will be a notation of the changing skies, clouds and winds, light colors, sounds, and fauna and flora's presence and behavior, from leaf fall to insect call.
I foresee an artwork that involves a contemporary score made out of drawings, possibly by objects (sculptures) that musicians or singers could perform. The specific time of the residence score and the imagined one of its origins and becoming. Other possible outcomes include a performance, an artist's book, storytelling, or other media.
