A knot in motion

Transmedia research project

Artworks

Title: A knot in motion
Format: generative web poem
Materials: rain, voice archive, algorithm, p5.js
Link: https://webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de/knot-in-motion/

Title: At the periphery of events
Format: 4k digital video, 2:30min loop

Title: Choreography for the unknown
Format: Mixed-media installation
Materials: rain, soot, glass, overhead projector

Short Description

The project investigates the ecological, technological, discursive and poetic accidents around one object of inquiry: the tropical rain. Through different methods, it attempts to compose an auto-ethnographic account of rainfall vis-à-vis an emotional ecology of longing formed both by a migrant’s memory and the losses caused by environmental collapse.

A knot in motion is a generative web poem and growing archive of voices from artists, poets and writers who speak with/through the affects of rain. At the periphery of events documents the return of the artist to his hometown of Jundiaí in the tropics and documents the presence of rain at a natural reserve created since his departure. Choreography of the unknown attempts to construct a cosmological map of rain by means an auto-graphic method of image-making.

Acknowledgments

Produced partially in collaboration with Islam Shabana. Initiated within the framework of the "Magical Hackerism" web artistic residency program at Akademie Schloss Solitude and SAVVY Contemporary.

https://webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de/knot-in-motion/