BUT DOES IT FLOAT? summer school OPEN EVENTS

BUT DOES IT FLOAT? 
A summer school at THE BARBER SHOP

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open events
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FRIDAY 1 ~

Listening session by Jonathan Saldanha 7.30PM

Jonathan Saldanha's work navigates into the realms of resonant choir constructions, visceral mediation of space, black matter and intra-cranial Dub. This listening session, parallel to the artist's presentation at the summer school, will be operated from a live dub situation were different pieces are put together invoking the sonic membranes that connect them.

Address: Avenida da Liberdade 211, -1


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WEDNESDAY 30 ~

Film night at Galeria Zé dos Bois 10PM
 

'MEDIUM EARTH' by THE OTOLITH GROUP

'The accumulation of moving images and sounds that make up Medium Earth comprise an audiovisual essay on the millennial time of geology and the infrastructural unconscious of Southern California. Focused on the ways in which tectonic forces express themselves in boulder outcrops and the hairline fractures of cast concrete, Medium Earth participates in the cultures of prophecy and forecasting that mediate the experience of seismic upheaval. The desire to evoke the hidden substrata of the planet gives way to a morphological interpretation of the face of the earth. As an experiment in channeling the system of fault lines buried below California, Medium Earth animates the stresses and strains of physical geographies undergoing continental pressures.'


'THE LIFE OF PARTICLES' by Angela Melitopoulos, Maurizio Lazzarato

The Life of Particles is the second part of a visual research project by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato about the French psychotherapist, political activist, and philosopher Félix Guattari and his interest in Japan.
The Life of Particles enters into a dialogue with contemporary Japan and the relationship between subjectivity, animist spirituality, and modern technology in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Fukushima compels Japan to look back on its history that melds animist traditions with hyper-modernity.
The Life of Particles is a journey that begins in Okinawa with the actual form of colonization through the massive presence of the US military since WWII. The travelogue re-itinerates the “Atoms for Peace” campaign in Hiroshima and the reconstruction of Japan as a country built on science within the ideology of the so-called “energy millennarianism” as a nuclear dream project during the Cold War. The research ends in Tokyo and Kyoto with insights by the photographer and anthropologist Chihiro Minato and the Bhutto dancer Min Tanaka into the history of technology in Japan and the animist traditions that are central to the development of Japanese craft and the resulting relationship between nature and culture.

Running time 123minutes + DRINKS AT THE TERRACE :)

Address: Rua da Barroca 59


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BUT DOES IT FLOAT? is a summer school taking place at THE BARBER SHOP from July 28th to August 1st 2014 which invites researchers, writers and artists to lead a series of lectures and group debates dedicated to the themes of geophilosophy and the anthropocene.


The parallel event programme was developed with the support of Galeria Zé dos Bois.