{"uid":"0ppZ7k5OlnVKr3jD","type":"artist","tags":["videoinstallation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Lo Sai? (Were you aware?)","summary":"Lo Sai? is a double-channels video installation focused on an epistemological issue, based on the comparison between academic and cosmic cultures: are they a dichotomy or could be a pair?\nThe work analyses respectively the western cultural canon \u2013positivist, individualistic, anthropocentric\u2013 and the cultural elaborations of other traditions \u2013spiritual, emphatic, generous, intersubjective\u2013, to testify the dense value and potentiality of these last, after a long period of imposing quiescence (references go to: Eduardo Viveiros De Castro, 2014; Emanuele Coccia, 2018; Manden Charter, 1236). The goal is to compare these two realms of knowledge, in regards to education, power, the relationship between human beings, as between them and nature. \nIn these videos the \u201ckente\u201d fabric and stole, designed by myself selecting specific colours and patterns, are the protagonists as a code-language accompany the verbal (the thoughts of some philosophers, video 1, and African oral narrations, video 2), media (a diachronic long take and a syncretic plural view) and environmental one (a classroom and a mountain landscape). There is not an ethnic purpose: the Ashanti fabrics play these roles because their meanings and evolution cover punctually the themes and values at issue. Although it is not a work aimed to support a thesis \u2013I am not looking to answers but opening questions\u2013 my interest is \u201cto explore the possibilities offered by other forms of apprehension of the real\u201d (Felwine Sarr, 2016).","space":"The two videos should be exhibited in the same space, a medium size rectangular room (not a booth). The installation includes the \u201cKente\u201d fabrics and the drawings of them, in a set up alluding to the two cultural horizons. It could also be in Ghana where I\u2019m developing my PhD research in the frame of the sperimental blaxTARLINES collective mentored by kar\u00ee\u2019kach\u00e4 seid\u2019ou.\n(Links: video channel 1 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/405862627 - video channel 2 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/407789677 - for both pw: HoldenAlpe)","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":"HoldenAlpe","video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/407789677","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Rebecca","surname":"De Marchi","email":"rebeccadema@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"YB5359057","address":"Adonice Agyapong Road, Ayeduase","city":"Kumasi","nacionality":"Italian","country_id":"84","birthdate":"1969-12-27T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1969-12-27T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+233 506180541","web":"www.ecoenarciso.it"}