Tropical swerve

Transmedia project, with artworks:

A knot in motion, 2023
Generative web poem
Voice, text, archive, algorithm, p5.js
https://webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de/knot-in-motion/ 

At the periphery of events, 2023
4k digital video, 2:30min loop

Tropical swerve was born out of my return to my hometown of Jundiaí, right by the Tropic of Capricorn, and the present effects of heavy rain across the site in the midst of climate transition. At the periphery of events documents this return and the abrupt rain I’ve witnessed in the span of 2:30 min, as I visited a local ecological reserve created after my departure. In such an atmosphere of longing and seeking to find both an image and voice for an object both inherent to life as to death at a distance, the project involved seeking plural forms of knowledge inherent to the rain as a means of mourning at the brinks of environmental collapse.

A knot in motion was born out of this desire. Through an open call to artists, poets, and writers who speak with and through the rain, an archive of their voices and texts started to be developed. Created in collaboration with Islam Shabana, the resulting web-poem departs from a speculative knot between the two tropical lines (Cancer and Capricorn) where each art was born. Within it, the archive of voices and texts becomes an ecological attractor of knowledge production: heard and visualized as a poem unfolding in plurality, according to the presence of rain in both sites.