Dépaysement - a saudade do desencontro  is part of a longer and broader research upon trans*material landscapes: shapeshifting frameworks that favour softer and more vulnerable environments.

Dépaysement - a saudade do desencontro is a map, a charting of thoughts, a soundscape, a video, a text, a diary, and even sometimes, a performance. It started as a simple assemblage of broken notes and thoughts written while I was an artist in residency at Kabuff - E-Werk Freiburg in 2022.  Through the (super)positioning of multiple flows of personal notes, poetics and fabulation this map critically reflects upon environmental and systemic anxiety, coral reefs and the human ‘working body’.

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Ecoes #6 draws inspiration from the landmark book, The Spell of the Sensuous (1996), authored by the ecologist and philosopher David Abram. Under this spell, the magazine explores the web of relations – experienced and perceived through the ‘sensuous body’ – that evoke our rootedness in the larger ecology of earth beings. Incorporating theorists, artists, musicians, and performers who are featured as part of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024, including a text by Abram himself, Ecoes #6 centres on the role of intuition and sensing. Fascinating interviews, evocative visual contributions, and prosaic essays envision the body as an open, fluid, and porous entity, with boundaries like membranes, forming a surface of metamorphosis and exchange. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, Ecoes is a bi-annual magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’. Showcasing compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the past, future, or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste, the magazine unpacks alternatives to the anthropocentric perspective that approaches the nonhuman as a resource.